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Socio-Legal Struggles for Indigenous Self-Determination in Latin America Reimagining the Nation, Reinventing the State
By Roger Merino
Copyright 2021
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of struggles for indigenous self-determination and the recognition of indigenous’ territorial rights in Latin America.
Studies of indigenous peoples’ opposition to extractive industries have tended to focus on its economic, political or social aspects, as if these were discrete dimensions of the conflict. In contrast, this book offers a comprehensive and... Read more
1. Introduction: Indigenous peoples’ struggles and the State in Latin America 2. Reimagining the nation-state: Indigenous peoples and the making of Plurinationalism in Bolivia and Ecuador 3. Emerging plurinationalism? Extractive development and indigenous uprisings in Peru 4. Local struggles/global utopias
Biography
Roger Merino is Research Professor (Profesor Investigador) of Public Policy and Legal Theory and Head of the Academic Department of the Graduate School at the Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru). He has been Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton.
