Indigenous Social Movements of Latin America

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1 1 Indigenous Social Movements of Latin America Georgetown University, Fall Semester 2010 Listed Course Title: Indigenous Social Movements of Latin America LASP-487 Wednesday 6:30-9:00 PM, Room 205A Car Barn Prof. KEVIN HEALY- telephone , Course Objectives: This course provides a perspective on the political empowerment of indigenous peoples in Latin America over the past four decades. The course will expose students to theories, themes, issues and empirical case studies on the emergence and consolidation of indigenous movements and importance of indigenous political actors within contemporary Latin America democracies. The course s analytical framework will focus on Western modernization, integrationist and neoliberal national and rural development strategies and how indigenous social movements rose up to challenge and reform them. At the beginning of the 1970's, the stage was set for these movements by the worldwide student rebellions of 1968, an emerging indigenous intelligentsia and the application of Liberation Theology at the grassroots in Latin America. Indigenous movements gained momentum during the 1980's for making important legal and political changes with the advent of the international environmental movement and then in the 1990's the anti-quincentenary campaigns throughout the hemisphere. The course will examine political empowerment, protest tactics, movement demands, organizational alliances, and impact on public policies of economic development, national laws and international conventions fostering the collective rights of indigenous peoples. The indigenous movements of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama and Brazil will be examined. The role of political decentralization, local political autonomy, territorial rights and transnational linkages within nation-states and subregional cases will be assessed. Social and political conflicts and related policy changes over control of land, forests, illicit crops and hydrocarbons figure prominently in the course. Indigenous movement impact on the political processes of multi-cultural nation-building fostering more inclusive democratic citizenship rights for indigenous peoples will be a thread running through the material Course Requirements: Students will be graded on mid-term (35%) and final(45%) exams and class participation(20%) through group projects and class discussion on the assigned readings. Books Ordered 1

2 2 Contesting Citizenship, The Rise of Indigenous Movements in Latin America and the Postliberal Challenge Deborah Yashar, Cambridge University Press 2005 The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America edited by Nancy Grey Postero and Leon Zamosc, Sussex Academic Press 2004 Resistance in an Amazonian Community, Huaroni Organizing in the Global Economy, Lawrence Ziegler-Otero Berghan Books 2004 September 7th Introduction to the Topic, Overview of Course and Requirements Xavier Albo. Ethnic Identity and Politics in the Central Andes, the Cases of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru a chapter from Politics in the Andes, Identity, Conflict and Reform edited by Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri, University of Pittsburg Press September 14 th -General Background to Indigenous Movements and Theoretical Propositions Frances Stewart, Horizontal Inequality: Two Types of Trap pgs in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Volume 10, No.3, November 2009 Stavenhagen Rodolfo, Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate chapter 1, pgs in Multiculturalism in Latin America, Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy, edited by Rachel Sieder, Palgrave 2002 Yashar- chapters 1, Questions, Approaches and Cases pgs.3-31 and chapter 2 Citizenship Regimes, The State and Ethnic Cleavages pgs and chapter 3 The Argument: Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America pgs 54-72; September 21st Indigenous Movements in Highland Ecuador (Part 1) Yashar chapter 4, Ecuador: Latin America a Strongest Indigenous Movement pgs , Zamosk Leon, From Politics of Influence to Politics of Protest pgs in Postero and Zamosk volume 2

3 3 Brysk Alison, Global Village, Tribal Village, pgs Becker Marc- chapter, Pachakutic pgs in Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador s Modern Indigenous Movements, Duke University 2008 Cervone Emma, Los Desafios de Multiculturalismo Part IV pgs in Repensando Los Movimientos Indígenas, Carmen Martinez, compiladora, FLACSO 2009,Quito Sept. 28th The Indigenous Movement in Lowland Ecuador(Part 2) Yashar chapter 4, Ecuador: Latin America a Strongest Indigenous Movement pgs Ziegler-Otero Lawrence Resistance in an Amazonian Community: Huaroni Organizing Against Global Economy Berghahn Books New York 2004 Brysk book chapter pgs Recommended Sawyer Suzanna chapter 1, pgs in Crude Chronicles, Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil and Neoliberalism in Ecuador, 2004, Duke University Hendricks Janet Symbolic Counter-hegemony among the Ecuadorian Shuar chapter 2, pgs in Nation-States and Indians in Latin America edited by Greg Urban and Joel Herzer Oct. 5th Bolivian Indigenous Movements (Part 1) Forest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson, Revolutionary Horizons, Past and Present in Bolivian Politics chapter 3 pgs.35-46, Verso, London, 2007 Ticona Esteban, Rojas Gonzalo y Albo Xavier, capitulo 3, Comunidad y Gobierno Local: El Caso Aymara pgs in Votos y Wiphalas, Campesinos y Pueblos Originarios en Democracia CIPCA Cuadernos de Investigacion 43 Fundacion Milenio,La Paz 1995 Healy Kevin, book chapters 2-5 pgs from Llamas,Weavings and Organic 3

4 4 Chocolate, Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia, University of Notre Dame Press 2001 Yashar, chapter 5, Part 1: The Bolivian Andes: The Kataristas and Their Legacy pgs Recommended Healy Kevin The Political Activism of the Bolivian Peasant Sindicatos in the New Democratic Order of the 1980 s pgs 1-35 Colombia-NYU, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Occasional papers No.6, l988 Oct.12th Bolivian Indigenous Movements (Part-2) Healy; Llamas, Weavings, etc. chapter 14 The Mouse That Roared: An Amazonian March to the Andes for Land Rights pgs Healy Kevin, "Political Ascent of Bolivia's Coca Producers" pgs in the Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, Spring 1991 Kohl Ben and Linda Farthing The Price of Success, Bolivia s War Against Drugs and the Poor pgs in NACLA Report on the Americas, July-August 2001 Hylton and Thomson, pgs. 1-31; Yashar, section of chapter 5, The Bolivian Amazon and CIDOB pgs Recommended Perez Mamerto, Sergio Schlesinger and Timothy A. Wise Promises and Perils of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Lessons from Latin America pgs.6,14-18, Global Development and Environment Institute(GDAE) at Tufts University, amd Washington Office on Latin America(WOLA) 2008 Oct. 19th Bolivian Indigenous in Power ( ) (Part 3) Hylton and Thomson chapter pgs

5 5 Albo Xavier pgs in Movimientos y Poder Indigena en Bolivia, Ecuador y Peru Cuadernos de Investigacion 71 de CIPCA, La Paz, 2008 Rivera Silvia Cusicanqui, Colonialism and Ethnic Resistance in Bolivia: A View from the Coca Markets, chapter 6, pgs in Empire and Dissent, the United Status and Latin America Duke University Press, 2008 The new Bolivian Constitution of 2009 (selected articles of indigenous rights) Oct. 26th Indigenous Movements in Peru Garcia Maria Elena and Lucero Joe Antonio Un Pais Sin Indigenas: Re-thinking Indigenous Politics in Peru Pgs in The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America edited by Nancy Grey Postero and Leon Zamosc Albo- chapter 5, Atando Cabos pgs Yashar chapter 6, Peru: Weak National Movements and Situational Variance ; pgs Stavenhagen Rodolfo Report for the UN On the Political Mobilizations and Human rights in Peru s Amazon region 2009 pgs. Nov. 2nd Indigenous Movements in Colombia(Part 1) Findji Maria Teresa, From Resistance to Social Movement: The Indigenous Authorities Movement chapter 7, pgs in The Making of Social Movements in Latin America, Identity, Strategy and Democracy edited by Arturo Escobar and Sonia E. Alvarez Westview Press 1992 Jackson Jean, Caught in the Crossfire, Colombia s Indigenous Peoples during the l990 s in Maybury Lewis volume, pgs Rathgeber Theodore, Indigenous Struggles in Colombia, Historical Changes and Perspectives in Postero and Zamosc chapter 4, pgs Rappaport Joanne, Innovative Resistance in Cauca, pgs and Armando Valbuen, There Can Be No Peace Without Indians at the Table in Cultural Survival Quarterly pgs , Winter 2003, Volume 26 Issue 4 5

6 6 Sonia Ranincheski and Renato Moreno, Resistiendo A Partir DA Discurso E Da Cultura, Indigenas No Conflito Armado Colombiano: Uma Outra Visao Sobre Guerra y Paz No Pais pgs , Latin American Research Review 2010 Volume 45, Number 2 Review 2010 Nov 9th Indigenous Movements in Colombia (Part 2) Ramirez Maria Clemencia, The Politics of Identity and Cultural Difference in the Colombian Amazon: Claiming the Indigenous Rights in the Putumayo Region, chapter 5, pgs in Maybury-Lewis volume Vann Cott Donna,Chapter 2, From Chaos to Catharsis, the Struggle for Constitutional Change pgs and chapter 3 Colombia s l991 National Constitutional Assembly pgs in The Friendly Liquidation of the Past, The Politics of Diversity in Latin America University of Pittsburg Press, 2000 Molano Bravo Alfredo, Uribe y El Campo pgs in Las Perlas Uribistas, Reveladora Radiografia del Gobierno de Alvaro Uribe Random House, Bogota 2010 Montana Diego Fajardo, Informe sobre Tierras, Justicia y Paz pgs Bogota, May 27, 2010 Recommended Anaya James, La Situación de los Pueblos Indígenas en Colombia, Seguimiento a los Hechos Por El Relator Especial Anterior.pgs Naciones Unidos 2006 Colombia Forestal: Libre Comercio Sin Tratado Grupo de Seguimiento y Politicas Publicas del Observatorio de Pueblos Indígenas-CECOIN Asociación of Indigenous and Peasant Producers(ANCIN), Land and Territories Free from Agro-fuels,Local Experiences in Defense of Biodiversity, its Permanence in our Communities and Food Sovereignty in the Andes Region of Colombia, Pgs.1-15, August 2008 Nov. 16th Indigenous Movements in Brazil 6

7 7 Maria Guadalupe, Moog Rodriguez, "Ïndigenous Rights in Democratic Brazil" pgs in Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 24, Number 2 Maybury-Lewis David, chapter For Reasons of State: Paradoxes of Indigenist Policy in Brazil pgs in Swartzman Stephan, Ana Baleria Araujo, and Paulo Pankararu, The Legal Battle Over Indigenous Land Rights in NACLA Report on the Americas Warren Jonathan, Socialist Saudes: Lula s Victory, Indigenous Movements and the Latin American Left,chapter 8, pgs in Postero and Zamosc volume The Other Brazil, Indigenous Peoples of the Great Savannah pgs. in Cultural Survival Quarterly, 2009 Nov.23rd Indigenous Movements in Mexico Krause, Enrique, Chiapas: The Indians Prophet pgs in the New York Review of Books, December 16, l999 Brysk book, pgs Mattiace Shannon, Zapata Vive!The EZLN Indigenous Politics and the Autonomy Movement in the Journal of Latin American Anthropology Dietz Gunther, From Indianismo to Zapatismo: The Struggle for a Multi-Ethnic Society pgs Postero and Zamosc Nov. 30th Indigenous Movements in Guatemala Schirmer Jennifer, Appropriating the Indigenous, Creating Complicity:The Guatemalan Military and the Sanctioned Maya, pgs in Maybury-Lewis volume Fischer Edward, Beyond Victimization: Maya Movements in Post-war Guatemala pgs in Postero and Zamosc Smith Carol A. "Maya Nationalism" pp in the NACLA Newsletter, Volume XXXV Number 3, December,

8 8 Davis Shelton H., "The Mayan Movement and National Culture in Guatemala, World Bank conference paper, 2002 Neslon Diane, Hostile Markings Taken for Identity: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority in a Graveyard Inside Guatemala pgs in A Finger in the Wound, Body Politics in Quincentenial Guatemala, University of California Press, 1999 Dec. 7th Indigenous Movements in Panama and Nicaragua Brysk book pgs Howe, James, The Kuna of Panama, Continuing Threats to Land and Autonomy, pgs in Maybury-Lewis volume Bennett Judith, The Dream and the Reality: Tourism in Kuna Ayala in Cultural Survival Quarterly, Summer l999 Hooker Juliet, Political Solidarity, Cultural Survival and the Institutional Design of Autonomy in Nicaragua: From Heterogeneity to Multi-ethnic Spaces to National Homeland, Kellogg Institute University of Notre Dame, Working Paper #359, July 2009 Mattiace Shannan, Ethnic Autonomy Regimes in Latin America pgs in To See With Two Eyes, Peasant Activism and Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico Social and Ecological Perspectives, Zed, New Jersey,