Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas.

• Superior document: Global Indigenous Issues Series
• TeilnehmendeR: Funaki, Ritsuko.; Burguete Cal y Mayor, Araceli.; Marimán, José A.; Ortiz-T., Pablo.
• Place / Publishing House: Calgary : : University of Calgary Press,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Global indigenous issues series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (724 pages)

Across the Americas, Indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples have demanded autonomy, self-determination, and self-governance. By exerting their collective rights, they have engaged with domestic and international standards on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, implemented full-fledged mechanisms for autonomous governance, and promoted political and constitutional reform aimed at expanding understandings of multicultural citizenship and the pluri-national state. Yet these achievements come in conflict with national governments' adoption of neoliberal economic and neo-extractive policies which advance their interests over those of Indigenous communities. Available for the first time in English, Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas explores current and historical struggles for autonomy within ancestral territories, experiences of self-governance in operation, and presents an overview of achievements, challenges, and threats across three decades. Case studies across Bolivia, Chile, Nicaragua, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, and Canada provide a detailed discussion of autonomy and self-governance in development and in practice. Paying special attention to the role of Indigenous peoples 'organizations and activism in pursuing sociopolitical transformation, securing rights, and confronting multiple dynamics of dispossession, this book engages with current debates on Indigenous politics, relationships with national governments and economies, and the multicultural and pluri-national state. This book will spark critical reflection on political experience and further exploration of the possibilities of the self-determination of peoples through territorial autonomies.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I - Post-multicultural Constrictum -- 1 | The Right to Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples: The Continuing Quest for Equality -- 2 | The Implementation Gap fo rIndigenous Peoples' Rights to Lands and Territories in Latin America (1991-2019) -- 3 | Framework Law on Autonomy and Decentralization for Indigenous First Peoples Peasant Autonomies (AIOCs): Autonomous Regulation or Institutional Restriction? -- 4 | Indigenous Autonomy in Bolivia: From Great Expectations to Faded Dreams -- 5 | The Tragedy of Alal: Regression of Rights in the Nicaraguan Autonomous Regime -- 6 | Mapuche Autonomy in Pwelmapu:1 Confrontation and/or Political Construction? -- 7 | A Future Crossroads in Rebellious and Pandemic Times: National Pluralism and Indigenous Self-government in Chile -- PART II - Possibilities: Recovering What has Been Lost and Rebuilding -- 8 | Restoring the Assembly in Oxchuc, Chiapas: Elections through Indigenous Normative Systems (2015-2019) -- 9 | Building Autonomies in Mexico City -- 10 | Neggsed (Autonomy): Progress and Challenges in the Self-government of the Gunadule People of Panama -- 11 | Autonomy, Intersectionality and Gender Justice: From the "Double Gaze" of the Women Elders to the Violence We Do Not Know How to Name -- 12 | The Thaki (Path) of Indigenous Autonomies in Bolivia: A View from the Territory of the Jatun Ayllu Yura of the Qhara Qhara Nation -- 13 | Indigenous Jurisdiction as an Exercise of the Right to Self-determination and its Reception in the Chilean Criminal Justice System -- 14 | Indigenous Autonomy in Ecuador: Fundamentals, Loss and Challenges -- PART III - Autonomies as Emancipation:Own Paths.

15 | Gender Orders andTechnologies in theContext of Totora Marka'sAutonomous Project (Bolivia) -- 16 | Autonomy as an Assertive Practice and as a Defensive Strategy: Indigenous Shiftsin Political Meanings in Response to Extreme Violence in Mexico -- 17 | Building Guaraní Charagua Iyambae Autonomy: New Autonomies and Hegemoniesin the Plurinational State of Bolivia -- 18 | The Path to Autonomy for the Wampís Nation -- 19 | "¡Guardia, Guardia!": Autonomies and Territorial Defense in the Context of Colombia's Post Peace-Accord -- 20 | Indigenous Self-government Landscapes in Michoacán: Activism, Experiences, Paradoxes and Challenges -- 21 | Indigenous Governance Innovation in Canada and Latin America: Emerging Practices and Practical Challenges -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.