Multiculturalism in Latin America

Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy

R. Sieder

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9780333998700
• eBook ISBN: 9781403937827
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

During the last fifteen years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue that these changes post fundamental challenges to accepted notions of democracy, citizenship and development in the region. Using case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, they analyze the ways in which new legal frameworks have been implemented, appropriated and contested within a wider context of accelerating economic and legal globalization, highlighting the key implications for social policy, human rights and social justice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures, Tables and Appendices
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Rachel Sieder
• 1 Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate
• 2 Constitutional Reform in the Andes: Redefining Indigenous–State Relations
• 3 Bolivia: From Indian and Campesino Leaders to Councillors and Parliamentary Deputies
• 4 Educational Reform in Guatemala: Lessons from Negotiations between Indigenous Civil Society and the State
• 5 Social Citizenship, Ethnic Minority Demands, Human Rights and Neoliberal Paradoxes: A Case Study in Western Mexico
• 6 Peru: Pluralist Constitution, Monist Judiciary – A Post-Reform Assessment
• 7 Recognising Indigenous Law and the Politics of State Formation in Mesoamerica
• 8 Latin America’s Multiculturalism: Economic and Agrarian Dimensions
• 9 Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Participatory Development: The Experience of the World Bank in Latin America
• 10 The Excluded ‘Indigenous’? The Implications of Multi-Ethnic Policies for Water Reform in Bolivia
• Index