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The chapters in this book provide critical theoretical and practical approaches to understanding land, territorial, and cultural dispossession and the forms of resistance practiced and engaged in by rural Afro-descendent communities and Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
List of contents
Prologue - Land-as-Life I
ntroduction - Land, Cultural Dispossession and Resistance: Afro-descendent and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
1. "No Body Dies before their time has come": Sentipensar (feeling-thinking), knowings and doings in a time confinement
2. Collective Land Titling: Formalization of Customary Regimes of Redistribution of Land Ownership for Afro Colombians
3. Ethnic Difference at the Center of Land Struggles in the Americas: A Complex History of Marginalization and Multidimensional Challenges among the Garifuna in Northern Honduras
4. Afroecological Ethnicities' Ancestral Life Projects: Reconstituting Territorial Peace in AfroPacific Colombia
5. Enacting Treaty Rights through Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Foods on the Wind River Indian Reservation
6. 7. 8. Linguistic Dispossession in Colombia: The Case of San Andres Island
About the author
Stephen Nathan Haymes is Associate Professor at College of Education, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Vladimir Núñez Camacho is Associate Professor at Departamento de Lenguas, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia.
Llewellyn Cornelius is Donald L. Hollowell Distinguished Professor of Social Justice and Civil Rights Studies at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
