Latin America in Theories of Territorial Rights

Kolers, Avery

doi:10.4067/s0718-090x2017000300737

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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

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Territorial Rights for Individuals, States, orPueblos? Answers from Indigenous Land Struggles in Colonial Spanish America

Espejo¹

2022

Perspect. polit.

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Who should have rights to territory? Dominant political theories hold that either individuals or state-based groups (states, nations, or state-based civic peoples) have foundational territorial rights. However, they cannot accommodate some Indigenous peoples’ claims that the land should be subject neither to private ownership nor to sovereign state control. Given these claims, some scholars have recently revised these theories to mediate between state jurisdiction and private property. But those revisions have thus far neglected the views of Indigenous peoples who did not experience Anglo-American settler colonialism. This article therefore examines contemporary territorial rights theories in light of the experience of colonial Spanish America. Using sixteenth-century documents in which Indigenous communities conceptualized and asserted their rights to territory, historical evidence of political struggles between these communities and the colonial state, and interpretations of colonial legal thinkers from the seventeenth century (particularly Juan de Solórzano Pereira), I argue that, in addition to individuals and state-based groups, we should consider another subject of territorial rights: pueblos, or grounded communities.

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Section: Pueblos: An Alternative Subject Of Territorial Rightsmentioning

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Territorial Rights for Individuals, States, orPueblos? Answers from Indigenous Land Struggles in Colonial Spanish America

Espejo¹

2022

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“…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.…”

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Land as a Global Commons?

Blomfield

2021

J Applied Philosophy

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Land is becoming increasingly scarce relative to the demands of the global economy; a problem significantly exacerbated by climate change. In response, some have suggested that land should be conceptualised as a global commons. This framing might seem like an appealing way to promote sustainable and equitable land use. However, it is a poor fit for the worldʼs land because global commons are generally understood as resources located beyond state borders. I argue that land can be seen to fit the definition of a global commons, if viewed in a particular way; namely, as a biogeochemical resource system that sequesters carbon emissions. The question then arises whether land should be conceptualised as a global commons. I consider this question by reference to three contemporary problems of land justice (land grabbing, forced displacement, and unfairness in land‐based climate mitigation); arguing that the global‐commons framing will not be conducive to understanding or responding to these problems. I leave the question of how the global community should conceptualise land in the context of climate change open, claiming that any answer must include the voices and perspectives of those whose livelihoods and identities are closely connected to the land.

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abordagem conceitual sobre a etnogeografia

Lopes Ribeiro

2022

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Este artigo apresenta uma revisão teórico-metodológico sobre a Etnogeografia que tem mais de meio século de existência. Objetivou-se analisar o uso do conceito Etnogeografia na produção científica de geógrafos em âmbito nacional e internacional. Esse conceito é usado para estudar as sociedades, os traços da difusão cultural, as crenças mantidas pelos membros dessa sociedade ou um determinado grupo. O resultado dessa pesquisa revelou que, ao compreender a etnogeografia como um método, o pesquisador deve se aproximar do grupo pesquisado conhecer suas práticas, os saberes-fazeres cotidianos, as relações com meio e suas representações. Concluiu-se que a Etnogeografia pode ser aplicada para pesquisar qualquer grupo humano, mas ainda é pouco utilizada pelos geógrafos.

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Latin America in Theories of Territorial Rights

Cited by 3 publications

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Territorial Rights for Individuals, States, orPueblos? Answers from Indigenous Land Struggles in Colonial Spanish America

Territorial Rights for Individuals, States, orPueblos? Answers from Indigenous Land Struggles in Colonial Spanish America

Land as a Global Commons?

abordagem conceitual sobre a etnogeografia

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