Negotiating Autonomy : Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy

Kelly Bauer

ISBN 10: 0822946661 / ISBN 13: 9780822946663

Editore: University Of Pittsburgh Press Mär 2021, 2021

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Neuware - The 1980s and '90s saw Latin American governments recognizing the property rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities as part of a broader territorial policy shift. But the resulting reforms were not applied consistently, more often extending neoliberal governance than recognizing Indigenous Peoples' rights. In Negotiating Autonomy, Kelly Bauer explores the inconsistencies by which the Chilean government transfers land in response to Mapuche territorial demands. Interviews with community and government leaders, statistical analysis of an original dataset of Mapuche mobilization and land transfers, and analysis of policy documents reveals that many assumptions about post-dictatorship Chilean politics as technocratic and depoliticized do not apply to Indigenous policy. Rather, state officials often work to preserve the hegemony of political and economic elites in the region, effectively protecting existing market interests over efforts to extend the neoliberal project to the governance of Mapuche territorial demands. In addition to complicating understandings of Chilean governance, these hidden patterns of policy implementation reveal the numerous ways these governance strategies threaten the recognition of Indigenous rights and create limited space for communities to negotiate autonomy.

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• Titolo: Negotiating Autonomy : Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy
• Editore: University Of Pittsburgh Press Mär 2021
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0822946661
• ISBN 13: 9780822946663
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 231 L x 155 A x 23 P (millimetri) 231 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 454 grammi

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The 1980s and ‘90s saw Latin American governments recognizing the property rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities as part of a broader territorial policy shift. But the resulting reforms were not applied consistently, more often extending neoliberal governance  than recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ rights. In Negotiating Autonomy, Kelly Bauer explores the inconsistencies by which the Chilean government transfers land in response to Mapuche territorial demands. Interviews with community and government leaders, statistical analysis of an original dataset of Mapuche mobilization and land transfers, and analysis of policy documents reveals that many assumptions about post-dictatorship Chilean politics as technocratic and depoliticized do not apply to Indigenous policy. Rather, state officials often work to preserve the hegemony of political and economic elites in the region, effectively protecting existing market interests over efforts to extend the neoliberal project to the governance of Mapuche territorial demands. In addition to complicating understandings of Chilean governance, these hidden patterns of policy implementation reveal the numerous ways these governance strategies threaten the recognition of Indigenous rights and create limited space for communities to negotiate autonomy.

Informazioni sull?autore

Kelly Bauer is assistant professor of political science at Nebraska Wesleyan University, currently on leave with the Politics Department at Occidental College. Her research explores how Latin American states govern to recenter themselves as global trends destabilize state sovereignty; her recent work is on state responses to international Indigenous rights, irregular migration, and human security regimes. She also researches the best practices of teaching and learning, and has been recognized for her excellence in teaching.