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Governing Indigenous Territories – Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Autor Juliet S. Erazo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iul 2013
Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective titles represents an enormous accomplishment; it also creates dramatic changes. Once an indigenous territory is legally established, other governments and organizations expect it to act as a unified political entity, making decisions on behalf of its population and managing those living within its borders. A territorial government must mediate between outsiders and a not-always-united population within a context of constantly shifting global development priorities. The people of Rukullakta, a large indigenous territory in Ecuador, have struggled to enact sovereignty since the late 1960s. Drawing broadly applicable lessons from their experiences of self-rule, Juliet S. Erazo shows how collective titling produces new expectations, obligations, and subjectivities within indigenous territories.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822354543
ISBN-10: 0822354543
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 6 photographs, 2 tables, 10 maps, 1 figure
Dimensiuni: 167 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Recenzii

"Governing Indigenous Territories is a beautiful ethnography, a compelling contribution to contemporary debates about sovereignty in Latin America. The story that Juliet S. Erazo tells is about not just Ecuador or Latin America but larger political, economic, social, and ecological histories, practices, and ideologies. This is contemporary ethnography at its best." - Paige West, author of From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea"Governing Indigenous Territories is a superb work. Through rich ethnographic descriptions, Juliet S. Erazo breaks through essentialized notions of Amazonian Indigenous communities, capturing the dynamic, complex, changing nature of human experience. At the same time, she tells a global story of territoriality and resource use, a story involving local and federal governments, social movements, and nongovernmental organizations. This landmark book will appeal broadly across disciplines and provide a basis for future research." - Marc Becker, author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements"Governing Indigenous Territories is an exceptional case study of the complicated issues surrounding concepts of 'indigenous territory,' 'indigenous sovereignty,' and 'territorial citizenship.' It is a sharp, insightful analysis of the extraordinary obligations that modern nation-states often place on indigenous residents who wish to maintain what was previously theirs." - Jean E. Jackson, coeditor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America

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Cuprins

List of Maps ix
Selected Acronyms xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xvii
Introduction 1
1. History, Empowerment, and Rule 27
2. Collectivist Utopias and "The Graveyard of Development Projects" 61
3. The Property Debate 97
4. Conservation and Environmental Subjects 133
5. Everyday Forms of Territory Formation 171
Conclusion. Making Citizens, Making Leaders, Making Territories 195
Appendixes 201
Notes 205
References 215
Index 227

Descriere

An ethnography showing that collective land titling for native peoples is both an enormous accomplishment and a source of new expectations, obligations, and subjectivities within the legally established indigenous territories.