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This book breaks new ground in understanding urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice. It is the first comprehensive and comparative study that foregrounds the complex interplay of multiple organisations involved in translating indigenous rights to the city in Latin America, focussing on the cities of La Paz and Quito.
The book establishes how planning for urban indigeneity looks in practice, even in seemingly progressive settings, such as Bolivia and Ecuador, where indigenous rights to the city are recognised within constitutions. It demonstrates that the translation of indigenous rights to the city is a process involving different actor groups operating within state institutions and indigenous communities, which often hold conflicting interests and needs. The book also establishes a set of theoretical, methodological, and practical foundations for envisaging how urban indigenous planning in Latin America and elsewhere should be understood, studied, and undertaken: As a process which embraces conflict and challenges power relations within indigenous communities and between these communities and the state.
This book will appeal to practitioners, researchers, and students working within the fields of urban planning, urban development, and indigenous rights.
List of contents
1. Introduction: From inhabitants of the forest to the concrete jungle
Part one: Concepts and context
2. The emergence of urban indigeneity and the indigenous right to the city
3. Indigeneity in urban policy and planning practice
4. The making of two indigenous cities
Part two: Experiences from La Paz, Bolivia and Quito, Ecuador
5. Urban indigeneity as lived experience
6. Urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice
7. Claiming indigenous rights to the city
8. Conclusion
About the author
Philipp Horn is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests centre around urban indigeneity; ethno-racial justice; participatory planning; and inclusive urban development in cities of the global South, with a regional focus on Latin America.
Summary
The book explains how medium and large cities of Latin America have attracted many people from the rural world during the last two decades, and how in the frame of such diaspora the indigenous peoples have also settled in the urban peripheries.
