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1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 641-683
Author(s):  
VALENTINA NAPOLITANO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Self Determination

scholarly journals Book Review: Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-58
Author(s):  
Joel E. Correia ◽  
Cheryl McEwan ◽  
Joe Bryan ◽  
Penelope Anthias
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
American Association ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Review Symposium ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Chaco Region ◽  
Hydrocarbon Extraction

This book review symposium critically evaluates Penelope Anthias’ recent text Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (Cornell University Press 2018). Through deep ethnographic attention, Anthias’ text evaluates Indigenous struggles for territory in the context of “post-neoliberal” Bolivia under the Evo Morales administration, showing the variegated and nuanced politics of autonomy in an era of hydrocarbon extraction and increasingly contradictory state-Indigenous relations. The text examines the “limits” of rights and state-led territorial titling processes to radically challenge the racialized extractive geographies that shape the Bolivian Chaco region. In so doing, Anthias’ ethnography provides a rich analysis of how Guaraní Indigenous peoples are reshaping their relations with non-Indigenous landowners and the hydrocarbon industry to advance new forms of territorial autonomy and self-determination with significant ramifications on Indigenous studies in Latin America. This book review symposium draws from a session at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference, featuring two leading geographers who share their critical readings of Limits to Decolonization with a conclusion by Anthias that responds to the written reviews.

Indigenous Peoples, Identity, and Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Guevara Gil
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
Original Intent ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Subjects

This chapter documents the social life of the right to free, prior, and informed consultation in Latin America. Challenging the original intent of the signatories of International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (1989), Indigenous peoples, subaltern communities, and their advocates—a tacit coalition of activists, scholars, judges, legislators, and diplomats—work at the intersection of law and anthropology to redefine and substantiate the right to consultation. Two movements characterize this endeavour. First, the right is being broadened, significantly expanding the legal subjects able to claim its enforcement. Second, consultation is being upgraded from a soft to a solid right, deepening it, so to speak, as a way of overcoming the procedural trap that reduces consultations to rituals of domination. Interestingly, corporations and multilateral banks are acknowledging this decolonizing reinterpretation of the right to free, prior, and informed consultation. While its full-blown implementation as an expression of the right of Indigenous self-determination is still utopian, both broadening and deepening the right to consultation empower Indigenous and subaltern communities in their daily struggles against extractivism and developmentalism.

Palestinian Diaspora Communities in Latin America and Palestinian Statehood

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Yousef M. Aljamal ◽  
Philipp O. Amour
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
South America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The Right

There are some 700,000 Latin Americans of Palestinian origin, living in fourteen countries of South America. In particular, Palestinian diaspora communities have a considerable presence in Chile, Honduras, and El Salvador. Many members of these communities belong to the professional middle classes, a situation which enables them to play a prominent role in the political and economic life of their countries. The article explores the evolving attitudes of Latin American Palestinians towards the issue of Palestinian statehood. It shows the growing involvement of these communities in Palestinian affairs and their contribution in recent years towards the wide recognition of Palestinian rights — including the right to self-determination and statehood — in Latin America. But the political views of members of these communities also differ considerably about the form and substance of a Palestinian statehood and on the issue of a two-states versus one-state solution.

Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Natural Resources

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérémie Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
The Right

The issue of sovereignty over natural resources has been a key element in the development of international law, notably leading to the emergence of the principle of States’ permanent sovereignty over their natural resources. However, concomitant to this focus on States’ sovereignty, international human rights law proclaims the right of peoples to self-determination over their natural resources. This has led to a complex and ambivalent relationship between the principle of States’ sovereignty over natural resources and peoples’ rights to natural resources. This chapter analyses this conflicting relationship and examines the emergence of the right of peoples to freely dispose of their natural resources and evaluates its potential role in contemporary advocacy. It notably explores how indigenous peoples have called for the revival of their right to sovereignty over natural resources, and how the global peasants’ movement has pushed for the recognition of the concept of food sovereignty.

Indigenous Planning: From Forced Assimilation to Self-determination

2021 ◽  
pp. 088541222110266
Author(s):  
Michael Hibbard
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Indigenous Planning ◽  
Indigenous Land Rights ◽  
Indigenous Land

Interest in Indigenous planning has blossomed in recent years, particularly as it relates to the Indigenous response to settler colonialism. Driven by land and resource hunger, settler states strove to extinguish Indigenous land rights and ultimately to destroy Indigenous cultures. However, Indigenous peoples have persisted. This article draws on the literature to examine the resistance of Indigenous peoples to settler colonialism, their resilience, and the resurgence of Indigenous planning as a vehicle for Indigenous peoples to determine their own fate and to enact their own conceptions of self-determination and self-governance.

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