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Book Synopsis Liberation Through Land Rights in the Peruvian Amazon by : Pedro García Hierro
Download or read book Liberation Through Land Rights in the Peruvian Amazon written by Pedro García Hierro and published by IWGIA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to reflect on the process which made the Ucayali titling project possible. Begun in 1986 and involving the AIDESEP, IWGIA and OIRA, it was an innovative and essential first step in the process towards indigenous self-management.
Book Synopsis Liberation Through Land Rights in the Peruvian Amazon by : Pedro García Hierro
Download or read book Liberation Through Land Rights in the Peruvian Amazon written by Pedro García Hierro and published by IWGIA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to reflect on the process which made the Ucayali titling project possible. Begun in 1986 and involving the AIDESEP, IWGIA and OIRA, it was an innovative and essential first step in the process towards indigenous self-management.
Book Synopsis Land and Forest Rights of Amazonian Indigenous Peoples from a National and International Perspective by : Siu Lang Carrillo Yap
Download or read book Land and Forest Rights of Amazonian Indigenous Peoples from a National and International Perspective written by Siu Lang Carrillo Yap and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Siu Lang Carrillo Yap compares the land and forest rights of Amazonian indigenous peoples from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, and analyses these rights in the context of international law, property law theory, and natural sciences.
Book Synopsis Indigenous Rights in the Peruvian Amazon by : Daniella Odette Aviles
Download or read book Indigenous Rights in the Peruvian Amazon written by Daniella Odette Aviles and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, President Alan García created a package of legal decrees that sought to expropriate indigenous land and sell it to international corporations as part of his neoliberal agenda. The social movement in the Peruvian Amazon quickly responded by claiming that the decrees breached indigenous rights, particularly the one to previous consultation, stipulated by The Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples of 2007 and the International Labor Organization's Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention 169 of 1989, both ratified by the state. This thesis analyzes the complex social relations between the state and the social movement in the Amazon. The first chapter examines the social conditions under which a social movement in the Amazon was formed as well as how Amazonian indigenous leaders surfaced creating social organizations and producing a strategy based upon an indigenous identity. The second chapter explores the transitional period during the 1990s and early 2000s, in which a neoliberal shift intensified the exploitation of indigenous communities' land, while multiculturalism introduced international discourses used by the social movement to politicize their demands and achieve goals. Finally, the third chapter explores the conflict between the state's rhetoric of progress and development used to advance neoliberal policies, and the response of indigenous activists through their indigenous-rights strategy. Through this analysis, this study argues that a new indigenous movement has emerged in the Peruvian Amazon through a self-proclaimed indigenous identity, where indigenous activists are using international documents to politicize indigenous issues in the Amazon and challenge power relations, citizenship, and indigenous rights, creating new social interactions and shedding light on indigenous issues and the Amazon.
Book Synopsis Post-frontier Resource Governance by : P. Larsen
Download or read book Post-frontier Resource Governance written by P. Larsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon.
Book Synopsis The Spaces of Neoliberalism by : Jacquelyn Chase
Download or read book The Spaces of Neoliberalism written by Jacquelyn Chase and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Explores how markets and market ideology affect the lives of Latin American people through their communities, culture, resource base, local labor markets, and households. Among the topics of the eight papers are tensions between women's and indigenous groups over land rights, gender and reproduction in a Brazilian company town, and the restructuring of labor markets and household economies in urban Mexico. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Book Synopsis Dreams Coming True- by : Søren Hvalkof
Download or read book Dreams Coming True- written by Søren Hvalkof and published by IWGIA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an unusual book about an unusual project in the Peruvian Amazon. It focuses on the extraordinary achievement the indigenous movement in the Upper Amazon has accomplished in establishing its own alternative health service. The work exposes a kaleidoscopic view of this fascinating process and presents the voices of the indigenous shamans, herbalists, midwives, and healers. It also gives an account of the experiences of the nurses, doctors, promoters and patients, and the aspirations of the indigenous leaders. Addressing a range of issues in rural health care, and proposing a model for successful implementation, this volume is important for international development and rural health planners, health workers, NGO staff, researchers, doctors, and indigenous leaders. Filled with a plethora of good stories and interesting photographs, in color and black and white, this book will also be of interest to a general readership interested in indigenous affairs and ethnic studies.
Download or read book War of Shadows written by Michael F Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War of Shadows is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon—told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Asháninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Asháninka territory. They fought, and were crushed by, the overwhelming military force of the Peruvian government. Why did the Indians believe this alliance would deliver them from poverty and the depredations of colonization on their rainforest home? With rare insight and eloquence, anthropologists Brown and Fernández write about an Amazonian people whose contacts with outsiders have repeatedly begun in hope and ended in tragedy. The players in this dramatic confrontation included militants of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), the U. S. Embassy, the Peruvian military, a "renegade" American settler, and the Asháninka Indians themselves. Using press reports and archival sources as well as oral histories, the authors weave a vivid tapestry of narratives and counternarratives that challenges the official history of the guerrilla struggle. Central to the story is the Asháninkas' persistent hope that a messiah would lead them to freedom, a belief with roots in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century jungle rebellions and religious movements.
Book Synopsis Migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon by : Menton, M.
Download or read book Migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon written by Menton, M. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the literature on the links between migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon. It highlights not only the complexity of the migrant–forest interface in Peru but also the relative lack of research on these dynamics. Historically, offi
Book Synopsis Coloniality and Indigenous Territorial Rights in the Peruvian Amazon by : Roger Merino Acuña
Download or read book Coloniality and Indigenous Territorial Rights in the Peruvian Amazon written by Roger Merino Acuña and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massive indigenous protest in the Peruvian Amazon and its aftermaths triggered a social consensus in Peru about the necessity of intercultural policies and the enactment of a Consultation Law, a norm based on the ILO Convention 169 to consult indigenous peoples before approving any norm that can affect indigenous collective rights. Nonetheless, the paper argues that, like previous legal reforms related to the recognition of indigenous rights, the Consultation Law remains conceiving indigenous peoples as minorities with proprietary entitlements instead of conceiving them as nations with territorial rights. The Law is a form of liberal legality still embedded in coloniality. Consequently, indigenous peoples maintain a tense and ambiguous relation with liberal legality: they use the Consultation Law for territorial defence, but at the same time they criticise the limitations of this legislation to fully take into account indigenous cosmologies.
Book Synopsis Land use change in four landscapes in the Peruvian Amazon by : Marcus, M.
Download or read book Land use change in four landscapes in the Peruvian Amazon written by Marcus, M. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This working paper uses remote sensing data and methods to characterize land cover change in four sites in the lowland Peruvian Amazon over a period of three decades (1987-2017). Multi-village landscapes were purposefully selected to include road accessible sites and others only accessible by river. Landscape analysis focused on buffers around the selected villages used to approximate the areas of influence of farmers in these communities. Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon has been commonly attributed to agriculture expansion by smallholders. This belief falls short in acknowledging that the contribution of smallholder deforestation is mediated by others decisions around infrastructure development. In this analysis, road connected landscapes experienced greater loss of closed-canopy forest while closed canopy forest remained mostly stable in the river sites over the thirty year study period. Results indicated that closed canopy forest loss occurred in parallel with agricultural expansion at the road sites. The findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of local land use dynamics and the role of regional infrastructure development as a driver of forest loss.
Download or read book Fluent Selves written by Suzanne Oakdale and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings together leading scholars in the fields of anthropology and linguistics to examine the intersection of these narratives of the past with the construction of personhood. The volume’s exploration of autobiographical and biographical accounts raises questions about fieldwork, ethical practices, and cultural boundaries in the study of anthropology. Rather than relying on a simple opposition between the “Western individual” and the non-Western rest, contributors to Fluent Selves explore the complex interplay of both individualizing as well as relational personhood in these practices. Transcending classic debates over the categorization of “myth” and “history,” the autobiographical and biographical narratives in Fluent Selves illustrate the very medium in which several modes of engaging with the past meet, are reconciled, and reemerge.
Book Synopsis Environment and Citizenship in Latin America by : Alex Latta
Download or read book Environment and Citizenship in Latin America written by Alex Latta and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research.
Book Synopsis University Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation by : Walter Leal Filho
Download or read book University Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the role of higher education institutions in addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation challenges, contributing to the development of this fast-growing field. Further, it includes the results of empirical research and offers ideas regarding on-going and future research initiatives. The contributions also • showcase the research and projects on issues pertaining to climate change at universities from across the globe; • document and promote ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of research projects, especially successful initiatives and best practices; and • introduce methodological approaches and projects that offer a better understanding of climate change across society and economic sectors. The book is structured around two parts: lessons learned from climate change research, education, studies and projects. Each part focuses on mitigation and adaptation respectively, with many responses of the two modalities overlapping. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the fields of environment, human geography, business and economics, as well as academics and students, as it presents education, communication and awareness-raising projects on matters related to climate change at universities in both industrialised and developing countries, often in cooperation with government bodies, NGOs and other stakeholders.
Book Synopsis Reimagining Political Ecology by : Aletta Biersack
Download or read book Reimagining Political Ecology written by Aletta Biersack and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ethnographies grounded in second-generation political ecology, which focuses on the interchanges between nature and culture, and the local and the global.
Book Synopsis Trade Trumps Basic Human Rights? by : Lorie Graham
Download or read book Trade Trumps Basic Human Rights? written by Lorie Graham and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent uprising in the Peruvian Amazon highlights why the time is right for the United States to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. One might wonder how the endorsement of this Declaration by the United States could affect a crisis thousands of miles away in the Peruvian Amazon. The latest crisis results from investment concessions made by Peru to various extractive industries without any consultation or consent from the Indigenous Peoples of the area. The Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues recently issued two emergency statements expressing her “deep concern” on “the reports of atrocities committed... against indigenous peoples in the Amazon region.” The Chair noted in particular the Peruvian Government's obligations under international human rights law to consult and respect indigenous peoples' rights to their lands and resources. As reported by the New York Times on June 12th, Peruvian officials attributed their recent concessions without consultation as a necessary step to bringing “Peru's rules for investment... into line with the [U.S.-Peru] trade agreement.” Whether the 2007 United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA) requires such action is a questionable point. The agreement gained House and Senate approval after the Bush administration agreed to insert provisions relating to workers' rights and the environment. At the time, scholars and indigenous groups voiced concerns over the lack of express protections on matters impacting Indigenous Peoples' lands and culture (such as the potential for illegal trading of timber and wood products that Indigenous Peoples rely on for their livelihood and survival, or the failure to adequately protect the traditional knowledge of indigenous communities in areas such as medicines and seeds, to name a few). Of course there is nothing in the agreement that allows a State to ignore its basic human rights obligations, including those at issue in the current crisis, from rights of consultation and consent to the rights of life and security. Two themes central to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples are the rights of consultation and prior and informed consent. For instance, under Article 32, States have an obligation to “consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous Peoples concerned... in order to obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources... ” These basic rights of consultation and consent are woven through many aspects of international human rights law and are particularly important for Indigenous Peoples given the history of unilateral land and resource deprivation. Of course the question remains how the U.S. endorsement of this Declaration would help to prevent or resolve this type of crisis. There is a host of reasons, some legal some ethical, as to why the U.S. should endorse a Declaration that was adopted by the General Assembly by a huge margin, some 144 affirmative votes. Only four countries - the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand - voted against the declaration, with 11 more abstaining. However, just this past March, Australia officially endorsed the Declaration as a step toward “re-setting” its relationship with the Indigenous Peoples of Australia. The U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the General Assembly in 2007 after years of negotiation. It followed on the heels of a host of U.N reports, most notably the Cobo report, documenting a long history of forced assimilation, discrimination, and oppression against Indigenous Peoples. According to one United Nations official, the rights recognized in the Declaration “constitute the minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world.” While the Declaration is a non-binding text, in U.N. practice it is considered a formal and solemn instrument, with which maximum compliance is expected. It contains many rights that are already part of international conventional and customary law, such as the right to culture and language, economic and social development, and collective protection of lands and resources. If the U.S. were to join Australia in its recent endorsement of the Declaration, it would be an important step forward in strengthening its government to government relationship with its own Indigenous Peoples. On a broader note, an endorsement by the United States of the Declaration would send a clear message to the world that respecting and supporting the rights of Indigenous Peoples to live as distinct communities is the appropriate framework from which to view agreements such as the PTPA. As Professor Mick Dodson of Australia recently noted, governments should not be concerned with the contents of this human rights declaration: “Human rights do not dispossess people. Human rights do not marginalize people... Human rights do not cause poverty... It is the denial of rights that is the largest contributor to these things.”
Book Synopsis Road Expansion in the Peruvian Amazon by : Eduardo Salazar Moreira
Download or read book Road Expansion in the Peruvian Amazon written by Eduardo Salazar Moreira and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides in-depth insights into the construction of the first road to reach riparian communities and the main access point to a national park in the Amazonian rain forest. It is based on an ethnographic investigation in Peru’s Manu Province in the Amazon, which explored diverse local attitudes towards the construction of a road in the overlapping buffer zone of two protected areas: the Manu National Park and the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve. The book reveals the applicability of Harvey and Knox’s concept of ‘enchantments of infrastructure’ in the case of first roads, but also makes accessible wider debates in political ecology such as territoriality and frontier development. The promise of first roads sparks feelings of aspiration and anticipation of the advent of development through speedy travel, economic connectivity and political integration. Yet these developments seldom take shape as expected. The author explores the perspectives, social dynamics and political maneuvers that influence first road building processes in the Amazon, which have applicability to experiences and strategies of road development elsewhere.
