Abstract

ILLICACHI GUZNAY, Juan  and  VALTIERRA ZAMUDIO, Jorge. Education and liberation from the perspective of Leonidas Proaño. Sophia [online]. 2018, n.24, pp.145-170. ISSN 1390-8626.  https://doi.org/10.17163/soph.n24.2018.04.

This article analyzes the pastoral action of Leonidas Eduardo Proaño, appointed bishop of the Diocese of Riobamba in 1954; in a context in which the indigenous population was considered as men-objects, men-commodities and men-exchange currencies. Presently there is still persistence, as well as a constant emergence of racism and oppression in its many facets that include the marginalization of racialized groups; Worse, public attacks on the lives and dignity of indigenous people. A posteriori, the article traces in the field of the Progressive Church and the Popular Radio Schools of Ecuador (ERPE) based on the dialogue with the theoretical cartographies of the philosophers Achille Mbembe, Michel Foucault and the postcolonial thinker Franz Fanon, The multiple ways of liberation, struggle and resistance, concluding that no power is impassable; Where there is power there are lines of escape. The purpose is to demonstrate how the structural impacts and agency of a historically oppressed population operate, at the same time, forming other forms of political action in alliance with the bishop identified with the men of the poncho; That is to say, with men prevented from being men. The methodology that contributes to the development of the present work consists of the revision of archives and specialized literature, interviews and life histories in order to examine the horizons of liberation.

Keywords : Liberation; progressive church; Chimborazo; ERPE; education.

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