Multiculturalism in Latin America : indigenous rights, diversity, and democracy

Summary: In case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, the authors analyse how legal frameworks have been implemented, appropriated and contested within a context of accelerating economic and legal globalization.

Record details

ISBN: 0333998707
ISBN: 9780333998700
ISBN: 0333998715
ISBN: 9780333998717
Physical Description: print
xiii, 280 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate / Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- 2. Constitutional Reform in the Andes: Redefining Indigenous-State Relations / Donna Lee Van Cott -- 3. Bolivia: From Indian and Campesino Leaders to Councillors and Parliamentary Deputies / Xavier Albo -- 4. Educational Reform in Guatemala: Lessons from Negotiations between Indigenous Civil Society and the State / Demetrio Cojti Cuxil -- 5. Social Citizenship, Ethnic Minority Demands, Human Rights and Neoliberal Paradoxes: A Case Study in Western Mexico / Guillermo de la Pena -- 6. Peru: Pluralist Constitution, Monist Judiciary - A Post-Reform Assessment / Raquel Yrigoyen Fajardo -- 7. Recognising Indigenous Law and the Politics of State Formation in Mesoamerica / Rachel Sieder -- 8. Latin America's Multiculturalism: Economic and Agrarian Dimensions / Roger Plant -- 9. Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Participatory Development: The Experience of the World Bank in Latin America / Shelton H. Davis -- 10. Excluded 'Indigenous'? The Implications of Multi-Ethnic Policies for Water Reform in Bolivia / Sarah Radcliffe / Robert Andolina / Nina Laurie.