Week 7: The Evolution of Rights 3
7. The Evolution of Rights 3: Communal Rights and Indigenous Rights
How does the idea of communal rights relate to post-colonialism? How does multicultural citizenship work in Latin America?
Primary Sources:
Camba Nation Declaration (Bolivia 2001)
Comunalidad, Jaime Martinez Luna, 2015 and Zapatista Communiquee's (widely available) Zapatista, San Andres Agreements 1995, 1996
Core Readings:
Kymlika, Will. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Oxford University Press, 1995.
David Lehman (ed.) The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America. London: Palgrave Studies in the Americas, 2019.
Stamatopolou, Elsa, “Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations: Human Rights as a Developing Dynamic.”, Human Rights Quarterly, 16, 1994.
Further Reading:
Assies, Willem, Gemma van der Haar and André Hoekama (eds.) The Challenge of Diversity: Indigenous People and the Reform of the State in Latin America. Thela, 1996. (Chapter 1)
Anaya, S. James. International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples. New York: Aspen, 2009.
Corradi, Giselle. "Indigenous Justice and the Right to a Fair Trial." Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism: Normative and Empirical Approaches. Ed. Giselle Corradi, Eva Brems and Mark Goodale. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017. 97–116.
Shelton H. Davis, Land Rights and Indigenous Peoples: The Role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Cultural Survival, 1998.
Héctor Diaz-Polanco, Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: The Quest for Self Determination. Westview, 2000.
'Rethinking Indigenous Politics in the Era of the “Indio Permitido”', 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.
Jones, Peter. “Human Rights, Group Rights and People’s Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 21,1999.
Mala Htun and Juan Pablo Ossa, “Political Inclusion of Marginalized Groups: Gender Parity and Indigenous Reservations in Bolivia.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 1, 1 (March 2013): 4-25.
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 Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean state, 1906-2001. Durham London: Duke, 2005.
Florencia E. Mallon. The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands: Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940. Princeton, 2014.
Brian Owensby, "Between justice and economics : "Indians" and reformism in eighteenth-century Spanish imperial thought." in Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross (eds.) Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Dan Rodrigues Levy and Raquel Dani Sobral Santos “Of the Constitution of Cadiz to the Federal Constitution of 1988: The Conquest of Indigenous Citizenship in Brazil” Conpedi Law Review. 2016;1(2):33-54.
'Beyond the Permitted Indian? Bolivia and Guatemala in an Era of Neoliberal Developmentalism', Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 3:1, (2008) 33-59.
Stamatopolou, Elsa, “Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations: Human Rights as a Developing Dynamic”, Human Rights Quarterly, 16, 1994.