2017
DOI: 10.4067/s0718-090x2017000300737
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Latin America in Theories of Territorial Rights

Abstract: ABSTRACT"Who owns it?" is a surprisingly confusing question when applied to territory. Each word opens up puzzles: who can "own" territory? What is "ownership" in this context? How can it be justified in a way that could convince an outsider? These questions are particularly salient in the Latin American context, where multiple distinct kinds of land disputes converge. This paper canvasses two familiar approaches to these questions: the Kantian autochthony view, and the Lockean efficiency view. Neither view an… Show more

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“…Why this authority rather than others? There are also questions whether pueblos can truly be defined by space, rather than by the particular ontology of land that turns physical space into meaningful places (Kolers 2009; 2017, 144). What I can do in this article is show how pueblos themselves have answered these questions through their history.…”
Section: Pueblos: An Alternative Subject Of Territorial Rightsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Why this authority rather than others? There are also questions whether pueblos can truly be defined by space, rather than by the particular ontology of land that turns physical space into meaningful places (Kolers 2009; 2017, 144). What I can do in this article is show how pueblos themselves have answered these questions through their history.…”
Section: Pueblos: An Alternative Subject Of Territorial Rightsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These conceptionswhich Kolers refers to as 'ethnogeographies'are extremely important to individuals and communities because it is through them that we make and understand the places that we live. 61 The parties who stand to be impacted by global conversations about land and land use will thus possess different, but deeply held, ethnogeographies of land. An appropriately inclusive global conversation about land will be open and attentive to such difference.…”
Section: How Should Land Be Conceptualised?mentioning
confidence: 99%