Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy

✍ Scribed by Rachel Sieder

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During the last 15 years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue that these changes pose fundamental challenges to accepted notions of democracy, citizenship, and development in the region. Using case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru, they analyze the ways in which new legal frameworks have been implemented, appropriated and contested within a wider context of accelerating economic and legal globalization, highlighting the key implications for social policy, human rights, and social justice.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures, Tables and Appendices......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction Rachel Sieder......Page 16
1 Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate......Page 39
2 Constitutional Reform in the Andes: Redefining Indigenous–State Relations......Page 60
3 Bolivia: From Indian and Campesino Leaders to Councillors and Parliamentary Deputies......Page 89
4 Educational Reform in Guatemala: Lessons from Negotiations between Indigenous Civil Society and the State......Page 118
5 Social Citizenship, Ethnic Minority Demands, Human Rights and Neoliberal Paradoxes: A Case Study in Western Mexico......Page 144
6 Peru: Pluralist Constitution, Monist Judiciary – A Post-Reform Assessment......Page 172
7 Recognising Indigenous Law and the Politics of State Formation in Mesoamerica......Page 199
8 Latin America’s Multiculturalism: Economic and Agrarian Dimensions......Page 223
9 Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Participatory Development: The Experience of the World Bank in Latin America......Page 242
10 The Excluded ‘Indigenous’? The Implications of Multi-Ethnic Policies for Water Reform in Bolivia......Page 267
Index......Page 292