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, “Liberalism, socio-economic rights and the politics of identity: From moral economy to indigenous rights,” in Richard A. Wilson (ED.) Human Rights Culture and Context. London: Pluto Press, 1997. 

 

Charles R Hale, "Does Multiculturalism Menace? Governanance, Cultural Rights and the Politics of Identity in Guatemala."Journal of Latin American Studies 34:3 (2002), 485-524. 

 

John-Andrew McNeish 'Beyond the Permitted Indian? Bolivia and Guatemala in an Era of Neoliberal Developmentalism', Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 3:1, (2008) 33-59. 

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Further Readings: 

Mark G. Brett, and Roddy Brett. Social Movements, Indigenous Politics and Democratisation in Guatemala, 1985-1996, BRILL, 2008.  

Giselle Corradi. "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.

Jorge Dandler “Indiegenous Peoples and the Rule of Law in Latin America. Do they have a chance?” in Juan E. Mendez, Guillermo O’Donnel 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.

Héctor Diaz-Polanco, Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: The Quest for Self Determination. Westview, 2000.

Paulo Drinot. “The Meaning of Alan Garcia: Sovereignty and Governmentality in Neoliberal Peru.” 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, "Human Rights: The Trojan Horse of Recolonization?")

Nicole Fabricant, and Nancy Postero. "Performing Indigeneity in Bolivia: The Struggle Over the TIPNIS." no. 3, 2018, p. 905.

Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero. Neoliberalism, Interrupted : Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America, Stanford University Press, 2013.

Charles Hale '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.

Castillo, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo. Histories and Stories from Chiapas : Border Identities in Southern Mexico, University of Texas Press, 2001.

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.

Peter Jones “Human Rights, Group Rights and People’s Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 21,1999.

Margaret E. Keck, and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. 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 Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean state, 1906-2001. Durham London: Duke, 2005.

Nuijten, M., and D. Lorenzo. (2009) ‘Ruling by Record: The Meaning of Rights, Rules and Registration in an Andean Comunidad,’ Development and Change, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 81–103.

John-Andrew McNeish 'Beyond the Permitted Indian? Bolivia and Guatemala in an Era of Neoliberal Developmentalism', 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 Peña, “Social Citizenship, Ethnic Minority Demands, Human Rights and Neoliberal Paradoxes: A Case Study in Western Mexico” in ” 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, “Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy” in Rachel Sieder (ed.) Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy , Palgrave Press, 2002.

Rachel Sieder, “Recognizing 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, “Limiting Indigenous Autonomy in Chiapas Mexico: The State Government’s Use of the Discourse of Human Rights,” Human Rights Quarterly, 22:4, 2000: 877-905.

Stamatopolou, Elsa, “Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations: Human Rights as a Developing Dynamic”, Human Rights Quarterly, 16, 1994.

Rodolfo Stavenhagen, “Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate” in Rachel Sieder (ed). Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy, Palgrave Press, 2002.

Donna Lee Van Cott, “Unity through diversity: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Deepening in Colombia” 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 Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Peru: An exceptional case? 

Ronald Berg, “Sendero Luminoso and the Peasantry of Andahuaylas,” 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’s Northern Highlands, 1980–1997. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2006.

Some films and podcasts: 

Even the Rain. Dir. Icíar Bollaín Spain, 2010.

The Dancer Upstairs. Dir. John Malkovich UK, 2002.

 

Primary Sources: 

ILO Convention 169, 1989 

PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, 18 February, 2009. 

Camba Nation Declaration (Bolivia 2001)

Comunalidad, Jaime Martinez Luna, 2015 and Zapatista Communiquee's (widely available) Zapatista, San Andres Agreements 1995, 1996