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Land, Cultural Dispossession, and Resistance: Afrodescendent and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas book cover

1st Edition

Land, Cultural Dispossession, and Resistance Afrodescendent and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Edited By Stephen Haymes, Vladimir Camacho, Llewellyn Cornelius Copyright 2025
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume provides readers with accounts of the contemporary consequences of the Eurocentric Western model of racialized power and extractivist development: cultural, linguistic, and land dispossession, displacement and forced migration, climate and water injustice, and the environmental destruction of Afro-descendent and indigenous communities in the Americas. The past and present... Read more

Prologue – Land-as-Life
Catherine E. Walsh

 

Introduction – Land, Cultural Dispossession and Resistance: Afro-descendent and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Stephen Nathan Haymes, Vladimir Núñez Camacho, and Llewellyn J. Cornelius

 

1. “No Body Dies before their time has come”: Sentipensar (feeling-thinking), knowings and doings in a time confinement
Edizon Federico León

 

2. Collective Land Titling: Formalization of Customary Regimes of Redistribution of Land Ownership for Afro Colombians
Mónica P. Hernández Ospina

 

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
Kaitlyn Bellamy, Victoria Garcia, Saleh Ahmed, and Adriana Archila

 

4. Afroecological Ethnicities’ Ancestral Life Projects: Reconstituting Territorial Peace in AfroPacific Colombia
Stephen Nathan Haymes

 

5. Enacting Treaty Rights through Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Foods on the Wind River Indian Reservation           Shoshone Ancestral Land, J.F. Keith, L. Olsen, N. Barney, C. Clark, J.L. LeBeau, D. Meyers, C. Mills, J. Mionczynski, V. Panzetanga, and A. Wechsler

 

6. Re-signifying the Past of Violence: Emerging Memories and Voices of Colombia’s National Strike
Nathalia Lamprea Abril

 

7. The Resistance of the Ethnic Communities to Business Exploitation in the Colombian Bajo: A Perspective of a Human Rights Accompanier
Abilio Peña Buendía                                                                                                                               

8. Linguistic Dispossession in Colombia: The Case of San Andres Island
Deyanira S. Moya-Chaves

Biography

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.

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