Media representation of women in Ecuador’s indigenous uprisings: comparative analysis of 1990 and 2019

This research analyzes the representation of indigenous women in the newspapers El Comercio and El Telégrafo during the uprisings of 1990 and 2019 in Ecuador. Communication and Anthropology sciences are articulated to expose the reduced female presence in the media narrative, which is dominated by heteropatriarchal and postcolonial perspectives. The media influences the construction of representations and, by relegating the female sector to secondary roles, denies their political capacity and reproduces their exclusion. 32 journalistic texts (out of a total of 184) are examined using a CAQDAS analysis. The results show the need to rethink the relationship between gender, media, and social movements with an urgent change in news coverage that grants greater visibility to indigenous women as agents of change.