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During the last fifteen years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue that these changes post fundamental challenges to accepted notions of democracy, citizenship and development in the region. Using case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, they analyze the ways in which new legal frameworks have been implemented, appropriated and contested within a wider context of accelerating economic and legal globalization, highlighting the key implications for social policy, human rights and social justice.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Tables Introduction; R.Sieder Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Opening Debate; R.Stavenhagen Constitutional Reform in the Andes: Redefining Indigenous-State Relations; D.L.Van Cott Bolivia: From Indian and Campesino Leaders to Councillors and Parliamentary Deputies; X.Albó Educational Reform in Guatemala: Lessons from Negotiations between Indigenous Civil Society and the State; D.Cojti Cuxil Social Citizenship, Ethnic Minority Demands, Human Rights and Neoliberal Paradoxes: A Case Study in Western Mexico; G.de la Peña Peru: Pluralist Constitution, Monist Judiciary: A Post-Reform Assessment; R.Yrigoyen Fajardo Recognizing Indigenous Law and the Politics of State Formation in Mesoamerica; R.Sieder Latin America's Multiculturalism: Economic and Agrarian Dimensions; R.Plant Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Participatory Development: The Experience of the World Bank in Latin America; S.H.Davis The Excluded 'Indigenous'? The Implications of Multi-Ethnic Policies for Water Reform in Bolivia; N.Laurie, R.Andolina & S.Radcliffe Bibliography Index
About the author
XAVIER ALBÓ Researcher, Centre for the Research and Promotion of the Campesino, La Paz
ROBERT ANDOLINA Assistant Professor of Political Science, Bates College, Maine, USA
DONNA LEE VAN COTT Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
DEMETRIO COJTI CUXIL Vice-Minister for Education, United National Children's Fund (UNICEF) Guatemala
SHELTON H. DAVIS Sector Manager, Social Development Unit, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank, Washington
RACQUEL YRIGOYEN FAJARDO Editor of the Website Alertanet-Portal on Law and Society of the Latin America Network of Law and Society
NINA LAURIE Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Newcastle University
GUILLERMO DE LA PEÑA Research Professor, Centre de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, (CIESAS), Guadalajara, Mexico
ROGER PLANT Special Action Programme against Forced Labour, International Labour Organization, (ILO) Geneva
SARAH RADCLIFFE Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
RODOLFO STAVENHAGEN Research Professor in Sociology, El Colegio de México and United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Indigenous People
Summary
During the last fifteen years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue that these changes post fundamental challenges to accepted notions of democracy, citizenship and development in the region. Using case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, they analyze the ways in which new legal frameworks have been implemented, appropriated and contested within a wider context of accelerating economic and legal globalization, highlighting the key implications for social policy, human rights and social justice.
