Week 3: Indigenous Rights
Week 3. Indigenous Rights, Neoliberalism and the Right to Development.
Seminar Questions:
How does the idea of communal rights relate to post-colonialism? How does multicultural citizenship work in Latin America? What were the demands of the indigenous rights movements? How did the indigenous rights movements legitimise their claims?
Core Readings:
John Gledhill, 鈥�鈥� in Richard A. Wilson (ED.) Human Rights Culture and Context. London: Pluto Press, 1997.
Charles R Hale, Journal of Latin American Studies 34:3 (2002), 485-524.
John-Andrew McNeish ', Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 3:1, (2008) 33-59.
Further Readings:
Mark G. Brett, and Roddy Brett. Social Movements, Indigenous Politics and Democratisation in Guatemala, 1985-1996, BRILL, 2008.
Giselle Corradi. "" Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism: Normative and Empirical Approaches. Ed. Giselle Corradi, Eva Brems and Mark Goodale. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017. 97–116.
Jorge Dandler 鈥淚ndiegenous Peoples and the Rule of Law in Latin America. Do they have a chance?鈥� in Juan E. Mendez, Guillermo O鈥橠onnel and Paulo Sergio Pinheiro (eds.) The (Un)Rule of Law and the Underprivileged in Latin America, University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.
Shelton H. Davis, Land Rights and Indigenous Peoples: The Role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Cultural Survival, 1998.
H茅ctor Diaz-Polanco, Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: The Quest for Self Determination. Westview, 2000.
Paulo Drinot. 鈥�.鈥� Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, June 2011, p. 179.
Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash. Grassroots Postmodernism : Remaking the Soil of Cultures, Zed Books, 2014. (Especially Chapter 4, "")
Nicole Fabricant, and Nancy Postero. "Performing Indigeneity in Bolivia: The Struggle Over the TIPNIS." no. 3, 2018, p. 905.
Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero. Stanford University Press, 2013.
Charles Hale 'Rethinking Indigenous Politics in the Era of the 鈥淚ndio Permitido鈥�', NACLA Report on the Americas, (2004), 38:2, 16-21.OR:
Charles R. Hale. "Neoliberal Multiculturalism: The Remaking of Cultural Rights and Racial Dominance in Central America." PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 28, no. 1, May 2005, p. 10-28.
Castillo, Rosalva A铆da Hern谩ndez Castillo. Histories and Stories from Chiapas : Border Identities in Southern Mexico, University of Texas Press, 2001.
Mala Htun and Juan Pablo Ossa, 鈥�.鈥� Politics, Groups, and Identities 1, 1 (March 2013): 4-25.
Peter Jones 鈥淗uman Rights, Group Rights and People鈥檚 Rights.鈥� Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 21,1999.
Margaret E. Keck, and Kathryn Sikkink. Cornell University Press, 1998. (Chapter 3)
Kymlika, Will. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Florencia E. Mallon. Courage Tastes of Blood: the Mapuche community of Nicol谩s Ail铆o and the Chilean state, 1906-2001. Durham London: Duke, 2005.
Nuijten, M., and D. Lorenzo. (2009) 鈥楻uling by Record: The Meaning of Rights, Rules and Registration in an Andean Comunidad,鈥� Development and Change, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 81–103.
John-Andrew McNeish ', Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 3:1, (2008) 33-59.
Mariana Mora, Kuxlejal Politics, Indigenous Autonomy, Race and Decolonizing Research Zapatista Communities, University of Texas Press (2017)
Guillermo de la Pe帽a, 鈥溾�� in 鈥� in Rachel Sieder (ed). Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy, Palgrave Press, 2002.
Nancy G. Postero. Now we are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Nancy Postero. The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia. University of California Press, 2017.
Rachel Sieder, 鈥淢ulticulturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy鈥� in Rachel Sieder (ed.) Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy , Palgrave Press, 2002.
Rachel Sieder, 鈥淩ecognizing Indigenous Law and the Politics of State Formation in Latin America" in Rachel Sieder (ed). Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy, Palgrave Press, 2002.
Rachel Sieder (ed.) Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy , Palgrave Press, 2002.
Shannon Speed and Jane Collier, 鈥淟imiting Indigenous Autonomy in Chiapas Mexico: The State Government鈥檚 Use of the Discourse of Human Rights,鈥� Human Rights Quarterly, 22:4, 2000: 877-905.
Stamatopolou, Elsa, 鈥淚ndigenous Peoples and the United Nations: Human Rights as a Developing Dynamic鈥�, Human Rights Quarterly, 16, 1994.
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, 鈥淚ndigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate鈥� in Rachel Sieder (ed). Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy, Palgrave Press, 2002.
Donna Lee Van Cott, 鈥淯nity through diversity: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Deepening in Colombia鈥� in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 2:4, 1996.
Donna Lee Van Cott. The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Deborah J. Yashar New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Peru: An exceptional case?
Ronald Berg, 鈥淪endero Luminoso and the Peasantry of Andahuaylas,鈥� Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 28 (4): 165–196
Jaymie Patricia Heilman, Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895–1980. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Miguel La Serna, The Corner of the Living: Ayacucho on the Eve of the Shining Path Insurgency. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Lewis Taylor, Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru鈥檚 Northern Highlands, 1980–1997. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2006.
Some films and podcasts:
Dir. Spain, 2010.
The Dancer Upstairs. Dir. UK, 2002.
Primary Sources:
Camba Nation Declaration (Bolivia 2001)
and Zapatista Communiquee's (widely available)