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Este capítulo propone reflexionar sobre las autonomías indígenas en Bolivia desde las ciencias sociales, y con las pretensiones más generales o universales que pueden ser de utilidad analítico-teórica en toda la región latinoamericana. La... more
Este capítulo propone reflexionar sobre las autonomías indígenas en Bolivia desde las ciencias sociales, y con las pretensiones más generales o universales que pueden ser de utilidad analítico-teórica en toda la región latinoamericana. La problemática de las autonomías indígenas como la encarnación formal-institucional de la libre determinación de las naciones y pueblos indígena originario campesinos en el seno del Estado, está aproximada desde la indivisible triada Estado-poder-sociedad. Ésta, a su vez, lleva a la cuestión de la contradicción o paradoja de la libre determinación en la condición del reconocimiento estatal, que limita su potencia emancipadora, aunque asegura el ejercicio formal de derechos territorial-políticos de los pueblos indígenas. El caso boliviano demuestra que la búsqueda de la autonomía a través del Estado es una empresa interminable, un “imaginario práctico en permanente construcción” y el horizonte no tanto de la felicidad final sino de la esperanza constante. Un aparente fracaso en la búsqueda de la liberación definitiva no debe hacer a los movimientos sociales a renunciar de sus imaginarios utópicos, sino perseguir su renovación en los siguientes ciclos coyunturales. Aunque existen perspectivas inciertas sobre el proyecto plurinacional estatal, el futuro puede traer también las posibilidades de replantear cuestiones como el alcance de las autonomías indígenas u otras propuestas para el problema de “qué hacer con el indio” en Bolivia.
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Boliwia, panorama przedwyborcza 2019
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If the 1952 National Revolution sought the wide incorporation of indigenous majority through their cultural assimilation and the process of building inclusive mestizo nation, the new project is based on the concept of the Plurinational... more
If the 1952 National Revolution sought the wide incorporation of indigenous majority through their cultural assimilation and the process of building inclusive mestizo nation, the new project is based on the concept of the Plurinational State, incorporating numerous indigenous nationalities on the equal terms and granting them the right to self-determination. However, the concrete implementation of the indigenous rights is partial and ambivalent, provoking the question about the real change of power relations between the state and indigenous peoples. Moreover, since the indigenous discourse became inherent part of state narratives and symbolic machinery, the state has gained monopoly about indigeneity and uses it to construct a new political-cultural community, based on plural ethnic identities merged into a broad, inclusive indianised state nation. This paper seeks to respond if the new Bolivian (pluri)national project is truly new or is it rather a renewed version of an old nation-state project?
Research Interests: Indigenous Studies, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Bolivian studies, Indigenous Politics, State Formation, and 15 moreIndigeneity, Nationalism And State Building, Bolivia, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Identity Construction, Nation-State, Estado Plurinacional, Ethnicity and National Identity, Indigenous Autonomy, Indigenous Autonomies, Juridical Pluralism, Plurinational State, Nationalism and Decolonization, Ethnicity and Nationality, Plurinacionalidad, and Nationalism and identity construction
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This book offers multidisciplinary perspective on contemporary development discussions in Latin America, marked on the one hand by the pursuit of economic growth, technological improvement and poverty reduction, and on the other hand by... more
This book offers multidisciplinary perspective on contemporary development discussions in Latin America, marked on the one hand by the pursuit of economic growth, technological improvement and poverty reduction, and on the other hand by the growing concern over the preservation of the environment and human rights. It analyses some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current development, environmental and human rights practices in Latin America. Taking a multi-level perspective that links the local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry, the collection approaches questions concerned with the interaction of state and non-state actors in the promotion and opposition to natural resource development and how development policies have impacted on communities in the region and the promotion and protection of human rights. By focusing on the different, though interrelated levels of interaction (local, national, transnational), as well as actors and roles, the book contemplates the complex panorama of competing visions, concepts and interests grounded in mutual influences and dependencies that are shaping the contemporary arena of social-environmental conflicts in Latin America. The multi-dimensional scope of the book demonstrates the complexity of socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America and the mutual influences and interdependencies that are shaping the contemporary arena of social-environmental conflicts in Latin America.
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1. Forces of resistance and human rights: deconstructing natural resource development in Latin America
Malayna Raftopoulos and Radosław Powęska
2. Indigenous rights in the era of ‘indigenous state’: how interethnic conflicts and state appropriation of indigenous agenda hinder the challenge to extractivism in Bolivia
Radosław Powęska
3. REDD+ and human rights in Latin America: addressing indigenous peoples’ concerns though the use of Human Rights Impact Assessments
Malayna Raftopoulos
4. Violence in the actions of indigenous peoples from the Amazon region as a result of environmental conflicts
Magdalena Krysińska-Kałużna
5. Neogeography, development and human rights in Latin America
Doug Specht
6. From human rights to an urbanising environmental politics: understanding flood and landslide vulnerability in Brazil’s coastal mountains
Robert Coates
7. Human rights and socio-environmental conflict in Nicaragua’s Grand Canal project
Joanna Morley
8. Sustainable development, the politics of place and decoloniality: contradictory or complementary approaches to Latin American futures?
Bogumila Lisocka-Jaegermann
Table of contents:
1. Forces of resistance and human rights: deconstructing natural resource development in Latin America
Malayna Raftopoulos and Radosław Powęska
2. Indigenous rights in the era of ‘indigenous state’: how interethnic conflicts and state appropriation of indigenous agenda hinder the challenge to extractivism in Bolivia
Radosław Powęska
3. REDD+ and human rights in Latin America: addressing indigenous peoples’ concerns though the use of Human Rights Impact Assessments
Malayna Raftopoulos
4. Violence in the actions of indigenous peoples from the Amazon region as a result of environmental conflicts
Magdalena Krysińska-Kałużna
5. Neogeography, development and human rights in Latin America
Doug Specht
6. From human rights to an urbanising environmental politics: understanding flood and landslide vulnerability in Brazil’s coastal mountains
Robert Coates
7. Human rights and socio-environmental conflict in Nicaragua’s Grand Canal project
Joanna Morley
8. Sustainable development, the politics of place and decoloniality: contradictory or complementary approaches to Latin American futures?
Bogumila Lisocka-Jaegermann
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This book, which is informed by extensive field work, combining interviews and participant observation, provides a comprehensive study of key issues related to crucial differences in the relationship between collective identity and... more
This book, which is informed by extensive field work, combining interviews and participant observation, provides a comprehensive study of key issues related to crucial differences in the relationship between collective identity and organisation in two of Bolivia's most important social movements and how these differences impacted on the two movements' participation in the process of writing a new Bolivian constitution and, subsequently, implementing the changes it sets out, in particular, regarding the rights of indigenous peoples to self-determination and territory. The book offers an overview of the historical processes, socio-political structures and cultural issues that have influenced recent developments and changes in Bolivia. It offers important insights into key issue regarding the identity and organisation of Latin American social movements generally.
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Social Movements, Latin American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Identity politics, and 9 moreIndigenous Movements, Bolivia, Latin American social movements, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnopolitics, Estado Plurinacional, Ethnicity and National Identity, and Indigenous Autonomies, Juridical Pluralism, Plurinational State
El presente artículo analiza algunas aproximaciones y miradas teóricas que definen un marco conceptual sobre participación de mujeres indígenas. Luego hace un recuento de la incorporación de las mujeres dentro de los procesos de los seis... more
El presente artículo analiza algunas aproximaciones y miradas teóricas que definen un marco conceptual sobre participación de mujeres indígenas. Luego hace un recuento de la incorporación de las mujeres dentro de los procesos de los seis Gobiernos Autónomos Indígena Originario Campesinos (GAIOC) en funcionamiento (Charagua Iyambae, Raqaypampa, Uru Chipaya, Salinas, Kereimba Iyambae y Jatun Ayllu Yura) revisando las etapas de acceso, elaboración y aprobación de estatutos y constitución de estructuras de gobierno. Se identifican las posibles lecturas en torno a la participación, factores que la favorecen o que la limitan. No se avanza en un análisis sobre el ejercicio mismo de la autonomía porque requiere de tiempo e instrumentos de evaluación de su desempeño en esta etapa y porque se deja esta tarea para una siguiente versión del artículo. El análisis se realiza considerando miradas conceptuales, normativas e institucionales entre lo objetivamente definido y las subjetividades intrínsecas en el marco de las relaciones entre simultáneas culturas políticas que se encuentran en este proceso. A partir de ese análisis se realiza apuntes a modo de balance. Los resultados rescatan estudios de caso, entrevistas, diálogos e insumos de talleres, de los pocos que fueron impulsados para esta temática. Además, se realizó una revisión de reglamentos, convocatorias, fuentes de prensa y documentación de las propias Autonomías Indígena Originario Campesinas (AIOC).
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El texto resume las experiencias de trabajo de campo emprendido en las áreas rurales andinas del Perú y de Bolivia por un equipo transdisciplinario de investigadores compuesto de una geógrafa, una antropóloga y un sociólogo, dentro del... more
El texto resume las experiencias de trabajo de campo emprendido en las áreas rurales andinas del Perú y de Bolivia por un equipo transdisciplinario de investigadores compuesto de una geógrafa, una antropóloga y un sociólogo, dentro del proyecto de investigación: Narrativas y estrategias de cambio social en las comunidades rurales andinas. El trabajo ha tenido como el fin la identificación de los casos representativos de las iniciativas de cambio presentes en al campo andino, su definición, la descripción de su carácter, contexto y de sus dinámicas. El aspecto territorial de los casos estudiados es fundamental para la comprensión de su carácter. Su contexto difiere según el país y según la región. En el estudio se han tomado en cuenta tanto las condiciones medioambientales, como el panorama social, cultural y económico local, los procesos de larga duración con incidencia local, las estructuras locales de gobernanza, la política pública y su incidencia real, los condicionantes económicos y políticos regionales y nacionales. Las iniciativas de cambio que se describen son cruciales para en análisis del potencial de sostenibilidad de las dinámicas socio-económicas rurales en América Latina. Su organización desde el nivel local y cívico constituye una importante alternativa a las políticas de desarrollo estatales.
Research Interests: Sustainable Development, Bolivia, Andes, Alternatives to Development, Environmental justice, global sustainability, Environmental Politics and Governance, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental Sustainability. Global Development and Environmental Protection, and Peruvian Studies
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This article discusses the incorporation of human rights dedicated to indigenous peoples and the problems associated with their genuine implementation in Bolivia in the context of state-led extractivism. Through this case study I will... more
This article discusses the incorporation of human rights dedicated to indigenous peoples and the problems associated with their genuine implementation in Bolivia in the context of state-led extractivism. Through this case study I will analyse the role of state and other related internal factors impacting the viability of indigenous rights related to self-determination and self-determined development. I concentrate on the problem of the character of state that can be seen as the most fundamental obstacle in implementing rights favourable to indigenous peoples’ self-determined development, especially in terms of political culture, as well as historically developed state–society relations. The question of asymmetries of power and inequalities is strictly related to the ‘state problem’.
Research Interests: Law, Development Studies, Human Rights, Community Development, Bolivian studies, and 14 morePolitical Science, Indigenous Politics, Rural Development, Informed Consent, Natural Resource Management, State Theory, Bolivia, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Indigenous Peoples, State, Pueblos indígenas, Sociology of the State, Routledge, and The Human Rights
Contemporary development debates in Latin America are marked by the pursuit of economic growth, technological improvement and poverty reduction, and are overshadowed by growing concerns about the preservation of the environment and human... more
Contemporary development debates in Latin America are marked by the pursuit of economic growth, technological improvement and poverty reduction, and are overshadowed by growing concerns about the preservation of the environment and human rights. This collection’s multidisciplinary perspective links local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry into the interaction of state and non-state actors involved in promoting and opposing natural resource development. Taking this approach allows the book to contemplate the complex panorama of competing visions, concepts and interests grounded in the mutual influences and interdependencies which shape the contemporary arena of social-environmental conflicts in the region.
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Chapter 1. from the book M. Raftopoulos, R. Powęska (eds.) Natural Resource Development and Human Rights in Latin America. State and non-state actors in the promotion and opposition to extractivism, London: Human Rights Consortium and... more
Chapter 1. from the book M. Raftopoulos, R. Powęska (eds.) Natural Resource Development and Human Rights in Latin America. State and non-state actors in the promotion and opposition to extractivism, London: Human Rights Consortium and Institute for Latin American Studies, pp. 1-26.
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my chapter from the book M. Raftopoulos, R. Powęska (eds.) Natural Resource Development and Human Rights in Latin America. State and non-state actors in the promotion and opposition to extractivism, London: Human Rights Consortium and... more
my chapter from the book M. Raftopoulos, R. Powęska (eds.) Natural Resource Development and Human Rights in Latin America. State and non-state actors in the promotion and opposition to extractivism, London: Human Rights Consortium and Institute for Latin American Studies, pp. 27-58
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This article discusses the incorporation of human rights dedicated to indigenous peoples and the problems associated with their genuine implementation in Bolivia in the context of state-led extractivism. Through this case study I will... more
This article discusses the incorporation of human rights dedicated to indigenous peoples and the problems associated with their genuine implementation in Bolivia in the context of state-led extractivism. Through this case study I will analyse the role of state and other related internal factors impacting the viability of indigenous rights related to self-determination and self-determined development. I concentrate on the problem of the character of state that can be seen as the most fundamental obstacle in implementing rights favourable to indigenous peoples’ self-determined development, especially in terms of political culture, as well as historically developed state–society relations. The question of asymmetries of power and inequalities is strictly related to the ‘state problem’.
Keywords: indigenous peoples, Bolivia, human rights, extractivism, state, development
Citation: Powęska, R. (2017) ‘State-led extractivism and the frustration of indigenous self-determined development: lessons from Bolivia’, The International Journal of Human Rights 21 (4): 442-463. (DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2017.1284446).
Keywords: indigenous peoples, Bolivia, human rights, extractivism, state, development
Citation: Powęska, R. (2017) ‘State-led extractivism and the frustration of indigenous self-determined development: lessons from Bolivia’, The International Journal of Human Rights 21 (4): 442-463. (DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2017.1284446).
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El texto analiza el tema de las narraciones sobre el "otro" en Bolivia. Empieza con la suposición que las narraciones excluyentes construidas por diferentes grupos sobre los "otros" tienen un carácter universal y están basadas sobre la... more
El texto analiza el tema de las narraciones sobre el "otro" en Bolivia. Empieza con la suposición que las narraciones excluyentes construidas por diferentes grupos sobre los "otros" tienen un carácter universal y están basadas sobre la dicotomía nosotros/ellos y sobre las oposiciones extremas de cultra/salvajismo y humano/no-humano. No obstante, propongo acercar este tema del ángulo de las relaciones de poder entre los colonizados y colonizadores. Las acusaciones del canibalismo o del robo de grasa humana funcionan como parte de las relaciones de dominación entre las élites criollas y los indígenas. Ellas tienen sus fines específicos - a justificar la dominación, explotación económica, exclusión, o a defender su comunidad frente a los invasores culturales.
The text tackles with the topic of narratives about the "other" in Bolivia. I start with the assumption that the excluding narratives constructed by different groups about the "others" have a universal character and are based upon a dichotomy we/they and upon extreme oppositions of culture/savagery and human/non-human. Yet I propose to approach this from the angle of power relations between the colonised and colonisers. The accusations of cannibalism or fat stealing function as part of relations of domination between the creole elites and indigenous peoples. They have specific purposes - to justify domination, economic exploitation, exclusion, or to defend own community against cultural intruders.
The text tackles with the topic of narratives about the "other" in Bolivia. I start with the assumption that the excluding narratives constructed by different groups about the "others" have a universal character and are based upon a dichotomy we/they and upon extreme oppositions of culture/savagery and human/non-human. Yet I propose to approach this from the angle of power relations between the colonised and colonisers. The accusations of cannibalism or fat stealing function as part of relations of domination between the creole elites and indigenous peoples. They have specific purposes - to justify domination, economic exploitation, exclusion, or to defend own community against cultural intruders.
Research Interests: Race and Racism, Race and Ethnicity, Cannibalism, Bolivia, Ideology and Discourse Analysis, and 21 moreIndigenous Peoples, Representation of Others, Cultural power and resistance, InterCultural Studies, Intercultural dialogue, Análisis del Discurso, Power and domination, Estudios Culturales, Colonial Discourse, Power relations, Racismo y discriminación, Estudios sobre Violencia y Conflicto, Interculturalidad, Representaciones Sociales, Ideología, Discursos Y Dominación, Relaciones interétnicas, Pueblos indígenas, Discurso, Relaciones de poder y ciudadanía, Ideologías, sistemas de creencias y representaciones sociales, and Canibalismo calibanismo antropofagia cultural consumo America Latina cannibalism
El artículo asume una interpretación amplia de la cultura política, que abarca valores y actitudes políticos de una sociedad, así como los mismos conceptos del poder, sistema político y mecanismos de participación. Como constructos... more
El artículo asume una interpretación amplia de la cultura política, que abarca valores y actitudes políticos de una sociedad, así como los mismos conceptos del poder, sistema político y mecanismos de participación. Como constructos sociales, sistemas políticos no son culturalmente neutrales. Además, las creencias y valores dominantes sobre cuales un sistema está basado, son elementos de una hegemonía apoyada por la violencia simbólica. No obstante, una cultura puede ser tambien una fuente de los discursos y prácticas políticos alternativos, convirtiendose en un factor democratizador. En la sociedad boliviana pos-colonial el proyecto hegemónico de un estado-nación homogenizante ha capitulado ante la fuerte diversidad política y economica y el pluralismo legal de hecho. La comunidad tradicional andina de ayllu con sus propias instituciones legales y políticas y su propio modelo de democracia se ha hecho una base de un proyecto estatal alternativo. La integración de las practicas y conceptos indigenas antes ignorados, que democratizan el modelo monocultural y exclusivo impuesto en el pasado por las elites criollas, es concebida como una descolonizacion interna del estado.
The article assumes wide interpretation of political culture that includes values and political attitudes of a society, as well as the very concepts of power, political system and mechanisms of participation. As a social constructs, political systems are not culturally neutral. Moreover, the dominating beliefs and values on which the system of power is built, are elements of hegemony supported by symbolic violence. Notwithstanding, culture can be also a source of alternative discourses and political practices, becoming a democratizing factor. In the post-colonial Bolivian society the hegemonic project of a homogenous nation-state has capitulated before strong ethno-cultural diversity and factual political, economic and legal pluralism of the country. The traditional Andean community ayllu with its culturally original legal-political institutions and own model of democracy has become to indigenous activists a basis of an alternative state project. The integration of previously ignored indigenous practices and concepts, democratizing monocultural and exclusive model once imposed by the creole elites, is conceived as an internal decolonization of the state.
The article assumes wide interpretation of political culture that includes values and political attitudes of a society, as well as the very concepts of power, political system and mechanisms of participation. As a social constructs, political systems are not culturally neutral. Moreover, the dominating beliefs and values on which the system of power is built, are elements of hegemony supported by symbolic violence. Notwithstanding, culture can be also a source of alternative discourses and political practices, becoming a democratizing factor. In the post-colonial Bolivian society the hegemonic project of a homogenous nation-state has capitulated before strong ethno-cultural diversity and factual political, economic and legal pluralism of the country. The traditional Andean community ayllu with its culturally original legal-political institutions and own model of democracy has become to indigenous activists a basis of an alternative state project. The integration of previously ignored indigenous practices and concepts, democratizing monocultural and exclusive model once imposed by the creole elites, is conceived as an internal decolonization of the state.
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Political Participation, Political Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Political Culture, and 18 moreBolivia, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Democracy, Indigenous Peoples, InterCultural Studies, Estudios Culturales, Cultura política, Democracia Participativa, Antropología Política, Antropología Social, Democracia, Estado Plurinacional, Sociologia Política, Pueblos indígenas, Etnopolítica, Movimientos Indígenas, DERECHOS INDIGENAS, and Etnopolitics
Artykuł poświęcony jest twórczości Alcidesa Arguedasa - boliwijskiego polityka, pisarza i historyka - i przede wszystkim jego "Pueblo Enfermo", w którym analizuje czynniki niedorozwoju Boliwii oraz problemy boliwijskiego społeczeństwa z... more
Artykuł poświęcony jest twórczości Alcidesa Arguedasa - boliwijskiego polityka, pisarza i historyka - i przede wszystkim jego "Pueblo Enfermo", w którym analizuje czynniki niedorozwoju Boliwii oraz problemy boliwijskiego społeczeństwa z początku XX wieku. Artykuł podejmuje próbę spojrzenia na twórczość Arguedasa i jej główne motywy społeczno-polityczne z perspektywy współczesnej Boliwii i jej wciąż aktualnych tematów tj. różnorodność etniczna i kulturowa, kwestia integracji narodowej, nierówności społeczne, dyskryminacja i wykluczenie, rasizm.