Indigenous Territorial Autonomy in Latin America: An Overview

González, Miguel Ángel Rodilla

doi:10.1080/17442222.2015.1034438

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“…Countries do not always recognize the same bundle of rights to ethnic groups. The law could grant ethnic people collective control over land and natural resources, which entails a degree of self-government (Yashar 1999;González 2015;Engle 2010;Boone 2019). Conversely, local people might have narrow rights of access, use, and management (Agrawal and Ostrom 2016).…”

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“…Second, many scholars assume that ethnic land titling is uncommon in weak institutional environments where economic groups that covet ethnic lands are seen as powerful, overriding forces in political decisionmaking processes (González 2015;Aguilar-Støen 2016;Kröger and Lalander 2016). Analysts often depict government authorities as members of informal power structures and corruption networks who are unwilling to realize the socioeconomic rights of marginalized ethnic groups (Velásquez Runk 2012; Gonzales and González 2015;Shipley 2016).…”

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State Building, Ethnic Land Titling, and Transnational Organized Crime: The Case of Honduras

Rayo¹

2021

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Existing work on state building focuses on the creation of modern bureaucracies and institutions for education and taxation but generally neglects to point to communal property regimes as tools of statecraft. Political science scholars who focus on ethnic communal lands in the Americas emphasize the rise of formal multicultural institutions, including Indigenous land rights, but are skeptical about governments' willingness to title large extensions of land to Indigenous or other ethnic groups because of opposing economic interests. Focusing on the titling of 12 percent of Honduras's territory between 2012 and 2016, this article uses semi-structured elite interviews, land titling data, field notes from three months in rural and urban sites in Honduras, and drugtrafficking reports to examine the motivation of officials in the central government. Evidence suggests that the central government views and uses ethnic land titling as a strategy to reclaim territorial dominance in contested locations that lack state presence. Los análisis sobre la creación del estado moderno se enfocan en el diseño de burocracias e instituciones modernas para la educación y la recaudación de impuestos pero generalmente omiten la propiedad comunal como herramienta para gobernar. Los analistas que estudian la propiedad comunal de pueblos étnicos en las Américas enfatizan la difusión del multiculturalismo mediante instituciones legales, incluyendo el derecho a la tierra de pueblos indígenas, pero dudan que el gobierno quiera titular grandes extensiones de tierras a dichos pueblos por oposiciones de intereses económicos. Este articulo usa entrevistas con la elite política de Honduras, datos cuantitativos sobre la titulación de tierra comunal, notas detalladas de tres meses de trabajo de campo en lugares urbanos y rurales de Honduras e informes sobre el narcotráfico para examinar la motivación de miembros del gobierno central para titular 12 por ciento del territorio hondureño como tierra indígena entre 2012 y 2016. La evidencia presentada sugiere que el gobierno central titula tierra indígena como una estrategia para reforzar su dominio en localidades vulnerables sin presencia estatal.

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State Building, Ethnic Land Titling, and Transnational Organized Crime: The Case of Honduras

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2021

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“…Recently, the modern concept of territory has been adopted by afro-descendent movements in Brazil to provide legal recognition of quilombo communities, solidified in the historic convention on ‘indigenous and tribal peoples’ of 1989. Moreover, across Latin America territorial autonomy has become a central goal of indigenous and afro-descendent movements struggling for self-determination based on longstanding historical claims to the land (Bryan, 2012; Escárzaga et al, 2014; González, 2015). Following Porto-Gonçalves (2016), these territorial struggles are seeking autonomy both with and from the state, leading to dilemmas.…”

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“…On the one hand, territorial autonomy has been constructed alongside and with(in) the state’s sovereign claims over space, via legal recognition of indigenous and afro-descendent rights to self-determination, particularly via land tilting and constitutional reforms (Bryan, 2012; González, 2015; Offen, 2003), producing ‘overlapping territorialities’ (Agnew and Oslender, 2013). While this has created new opportunities for non-state territorial claims, it has come across limits.…”

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“…As in Bolivia, the new (2008) constitution not only made reference to the ‘plurinational state’ but also to notions of buen vivir / sumac kawsay (living well), which emphasise ‘coexistence, diversity, and harmony with nature’ (Radcliffe, 2012; Varea and Zaragocin, 2017; Walsh, 2010). 3 Although previous constitutional reforms in Latin American states had made some progress towards implementing indigenous territorial autonomy (see González, 2015), Ecuador and Bolivia represent radical attempts to incorporate non-state indigenous understandings of territory within the state’s legal-institutional framework.…”

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Decolonising territory: Dialogues with Latin American knowledges and grassroots strategies

Halvorsen

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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Territory has been increasingly interrogated within Anglophone human geography, yet it has been little examined beyond the context of the modern, Eurocentric state. Developing an open definition of territory, the appropriation of space in pursuit of political projects, this paper opens epistemological dialogue with diverse Latin America strategies to decolonise territory in thought and practice, oriented around the themes of land, terrain and the state. In so doing it aims to contribute to the dismantling and reversing of colonial hierarchies that are both reproduced through Anglophone scholarship and sustained through dominant imaginations and practices of territory.

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Cerca del Rio y Lejos del Agua: Water, Autonomy, and Hope in the Ecuadorian Andes

Goodwin

2021

Environment and Development

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Indigenous Territorial Autonomy in Latin America: An Overview

Cited by 25 publications

References 20 publications

State Building, Ethnic Land Titling, and Transnational Organized Crime: The Case of Honduras

State Building, Ethnic Land Titling, and Transnational Organized Crime: The Case of Honduras

Decolonising territory: Dialogues with Latin American knowledges and grassroots strategies

Cerca del Rio y Lejos del Agua: Water, Autonomy, and Hope in the Ecuadorian Andes

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