Governing indigenous territories : enacting sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Juliet S. Erazo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erazo, Juliet S., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pueblo Kichwa de Rukullakta.

Indians of South America--Ecuador--Politics and government.

Indians of South America.

Indigenous peoples.

Politics and government.

Ecuador.

Indigenous peoples--Ecuador--Politics and government.

Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Politics and government.

Indigenous peoples--Amazon River Region--Politics and government.

Sovereignty.

Amazon River Region.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal tide to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective tides represents an enormous accomplishment; it also creates dramatic changes. Once an indigenous territory is legally established, other governments and organizations expect it to act as a unified political entity, making decisions on behalf of its population and managing those living within its borders. A territorial government must mediate between outsiders and a not-always-united population within a context of constantly shifting global development priorities. The people of Rukullakta, a large indigenous territory in Ecuador, have struggled to enact sovereignty since the late 1960s. Drawing broadly applicable lessons from their experiences of self-rule, Juliet S. Erazo shows how collective titling produces new expectations, obligations, and subjectivities within indigenous territories. Book jacket.

Contents:

History, empowerment, and rule

Collectivist utopias and "the graveyard of development projects"

The property debate

Conservation and environmental subjects

Everyday forms of territory formation

Conclusion: making citizens, making leaders, making territories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822354406

0822354403

9780822354543

0822354543

OCLC:

818953123