Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
Deborah J. Yashar
Language: English
Pages: 388
ISBN: 0521534801
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Deborah Yashar analyzes the contemporary and uneven emergence of Latin American indigenous movements--addressing both why indigenous identities have become politically salient in the contemporary period and why they have translated into significant political organizations in some places and not others. She argues that ethnic politics can best be explained through a comparative historical approach that analyzes three factors: changing citizenship regimes, social networks, and political associational space--providing insight into the fragility and unevenness of Latin America's third wave democracies.
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United States that took place in Lago Agrio, Ecuador; a two´ de Pueblos Ind´ıgenas de Pastaza day conference of the Organizacion (OPIP), that took place in the province of Puno, Ecuador; and a fourday traveling “conference” with leaders from Bolivia’s CIDOB that took us to several communities in the Bolivian Amazon and Chaco. On each of these occasions, I remained a silent observer during the conferences. However, I talked extensively with the organizers of three of these trips before and after.
Another in Britain and France.10 Given this territorial and liberal/civic understanding of citizenship, it is perhaps no surprise that many of these states have come to include ethnically diverse populations. And in the ex-colonial countries, these immigrant populations have come to reside on lands that were once populated and governed by indigenous peoples. It is in these states that the multicultural debates have found greatest resonance – with Indians often demanding a certain degree of.
Neoliberal citizenship regimes resulted in reduced ministerial budgets for ministries of agriculture; social services; and economic programs, including protection of peasant lands, access to credit, and agricultural subsidies. Real wages in the agricultural sector steadily declined from the 1980s and by 1992 had declined by 30 percent in Latin America as a whole.19 By the mid-1990s, land reforms had been proposed to privatize land markets in Mexico (1991 – with the decision to dismantle the.
Alongside that of the region’s indigenous peoples and popular sectors. Questions, Approaches, and Cases them as Indians. This is happening just as more traditional labor and peasant-based organizations have declined in organizational strength. For just as workers, women, leftists, and others have become less prone to engage in movement organizing and protest politics, we have found a burst of widespread protest among indigenous peoples in the region. It is not that Indians have not organized.
And were left unregulated. So too the roads that were built were seen as a mixed and dangerous blessing. They made it easier to travel but also made it easier for others to come. In one anonymous 1997 group interview in a community outside of Puyo, Pastaza, the male community members discussed how roads were dangerous: they brought illnesses, noise, alcohol, easy exit for children and therefore a declining respect for elders, easier migration to the city and with that an increasing embarassment.