Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy (Institute of Latin American Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333998715 ISBN 13: 9780333998717

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Synopsis

During the last 15 years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue that these changes pose fundamental challenges to accepted notions of democracy, citizenship, and developm

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XAVIER ALBÓ Researcher, Centre for the Research and Promotion of the Campesino, La Paz ROBERT ANDOLINA Assistant Professor of Political Science, Bates College, Maine, USA DONNA LEE VAN COTT Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville DEMETRIO COJTI CUXIL Vice-Minister for Education, United National Children's Fund (UNICEF) Guatemala SHELTON H. DAVIS Sector Manager, Social Development Unit, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank, Washington RACQUEL YRIGOYEN FAJARDO Editor of the Website Alertanet-Portal on Law and Society of the Latin America Network of Law and Society NINA LAURIE Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Newcastle University GUILLERMO DE LA PEÑA Research Professor, Centre de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, (CIESAS), Guadalajara, Mexico ROGER PLANT Special Action Programme against Forced Labour, International Labour Organization, (ILO) Geneva SARAH RADCLIFFE Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge RODOLFO STAVENHAGEN Research Professor in Sociology, El Colegio de México and United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Indigenous People

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333998715
• ISBN 13: 9780333998717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 293
• Editor: Sieder R.