Indigenous Land Loss, Justice and Race

While the end of colonial rule brought formal equality it did not end discrimination and marginalization of the indigenous population in independent Central America. Many suffered land loss and proletarianization in the emerging agricultural export economy. However, indigenous people were not mere victims of exploitation, displacement, and ladinization but played an often active role in Central American politics. Participation in the market economy and access to education fostered stratification within the indigenous population. The emergence of well-off and educated Indians and changes in international politics promoting multiculturalism contributed to the emergence of indigenous movements in recent decades. While some progress has been made concerning the recognition of cultural difference and autonomy, land rights are still a much disputed issue.

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Indigenous Planning: From Forced Assimilation to Self-determination

Journal of Planning Literature ◽

10.1177/08854122211026641 ◽

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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Fossil fuel violence and visual practices on Indigenous land: Watching, witnessing and resisting settler-colonial injustices

Energy Research & Social Science ◽

10.1016/j.erss.2021.102189 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 79 ◽

pp. 102189

Author(s):

Samuel J. Spiegel

Keyword(s):

Fossil Fuel ◽

Indigenous Land

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Land Loss with Compensation: What Are the Determinants of Income Among Households in Central Vietnam?

Environment and Urbanization Asia ◽

10.1177/0975425321990383 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 40-55

Author(s):

Nguyen Quang Phuc ◽

A. C. M. (Guus) van Westen ◽

Annelies Zoomers

Keyword(s):

Household Income ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Urban Expansion ◽

Skill Training ◽

Land Loss ◽

Central Vietnam ◽

Compensation Packages ◽

Household Members ◽

The Government ◽

Using Data

The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of household income following the loss of land owing to urban expansion in central Vietnam. Using data mainly from household surveys in the peri-urban areas of Hue city, the regression model indicates that demographic factors and livelihood strategy choices have important impacts on household income; financial compensation and support packages do not appear to be strong determinants of household income after the loss of land. This implies a failure of the current compensation programmes in the process of compulsory land acquisition, because the government believes that compensation packages make important contributions to livelihood reconstruction. This study suggests that investing in education and skill training for household members affected by land loss as well as assistance in converting compensation money into an adequate livelihood should be taken into consideration.

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Modulating Eventfulness: How Liaison Policing Strategies Mitigate Potentiality in Indigenous Land Defence Organising

Antipode ◽

10.1111/anti.12735 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Sylvestre

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Land

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Monitored Lives: Writing Indigenous Land Management and the State (Part One)

Practicing Anthropology ◽

10.17730/praa.23.1.kl705833845056h5 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 32-35

Author(s):

Jim Birckhead

Keyword(s):

Cultural Identity ◽

Land Tenure ◽

Government Agencies ◽

Contract Work ◽

The Past ◽

Cultural Processes ◽

Indigenous Land Management ◽

Expert Input ◽

Management Issues ◽

Indigenous Land

Anthropologists in Australia are becoming increasingly involved in government contract work on Indigenous land tenure and management issues, most of which require some ‘expert’ input to help authenticate cultural identity and establish connection to ‘country’. In this paper I have reviewed some issues and themes drawn from my uneven and serendipitous work as an anthropologist. This work has been done as both an academic and practitioner, over the past couple of decades on Indigenous land tenure, hunting, management, and ranger training at this dynamic and contentious interface between Indigenous cultural processes and government agencies. My aim is to raise questions of both ethics and epistemology and to reflect on the work of the anthropologist in these domains, without attempting to systematically cover all of the possible issues.

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