L B Fontana
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 67637 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | L B Fontana |
| NOMBRES | L B |
| APELLIDO | Fontana |
| FIRMA | FONTANA L B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9983-8062 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 129 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Forum Theatre for Reconciliation
This paper examines how participatory theatre methods can be used to foster reconciliation and conduct research in communities affected by socio-environmental conflicts. We design and pilot a distinctive drama-based approach to conflict transformation that we call Forum Theatre for Reconciliation (FTR). The method furthers embodied intersubjective understanding as well as a critical analysis of structural causes of conflict. We discuss this appro…
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts
This article presents a socio-legal analysis of the Lhaka Honhat case, a decades-long territorial dispute between Indigenous communities and peasant settlers (criollos) in the Northern Argentinian Province of Salta. This is the first case in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights confronted the normative implications of interethnic communal conflicts. The court was called to apply human rights standards to resolve conflicting land claims …
Demographic pressure as a factor in inter-ethnic conflicts
This article explores the link between demographic pressure and inter-ethnic conflicts. Relying on a mixed-methods approach applied to the paradigmatic case of the Cauca region of Colombia, we argue that demographic pressure can play an important role in explaining a recent wave of conflicts between indigenous, mestizo peasant and Afro-Colombian communities. We find that increasing population density within indigenous territories (resguardos) inc…
Seeing others. Seeing us
Written in the present continuous tense, Seeing Others is a lucid analysis of contemporary American society. In contrast to a widespread gloominess about the future, this is a declaration of hope and a call for action: change the story to change history. From Hollywood movies to artistic practice, from daily routines to popular culture, a dense series of examples illustrates how narratives can be means to create more inclusive and equal societies…
Recognition Politics
This pioneering work explores a new wave of widely overlooked conflicts that have emerged across the Andean region, coinciding with the implementation of internationally acclaimed indigenous rights. Why are groups that have peacefully cohabited for decades suddenly engaging in hostile and, at times, violent behaviours? What is the link between these conflicts and changes in collective self-identification, claim-making, and rent-seeking dynamics? …
Recognition Politics
Women in Wildfire Crises
On burning ground
In this essay, we report on a 2022 creative research collaboration in which we deployed Augusto Boal's models of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre to generate community dialogue and action on issues sparked by ecological crisis in Bolivia's Chiquitanía. Extremely fragile to anthropogenic action, the Chiquitanía is home to one of the world's largest dry forests, which is experiencing profound and recurrent wildfires. Responding to this on…
The sustainable development goals
Federico M. Rossi, The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation
Identity policies of education
Policy initiatives that seek to account for ethno-cultural differences in education and schooling have become increasingly popular over the past few decades. These include affirmative action measures and bilingual education models. The rationale for the implementation of these policies focuses on their potential to rectify historical discrimination by both levelling horizontal inequalities and granting equal value to different cultures and langua…
Human Rights and the Pink Tide in Latin America
Latin America witnessed the election of 'new Left' governments in the early 21stcentury that, in different ways, sought to open a debate about alternatives to paradigms of neoliberal development. What has this meant for the way that human rights are understood and for patterns of human rights compliance? Using qualitative and quantitative evidence, this article discusses how human rights are imagined and the compliance records of new Left governm…
Civil Society Organizations, Advocacy, and Policy Making in Latin American Democracies ‐ by Risley, Amy
Conflicto social y reterritorialización. Miradas cruzadas sobre movimientos rurales y regionalistas en Bolivia
Desde la crisis de octubre de 2003, mejor conocida como la "guerra del gas", el sistema político boliviano ha sido sacudido por dos movimientos: por una parte, el movimiento rural campesino-indígena, encarnado por el líder cocalero y actual presidente Evo Morales y, por otra, el movimiento regionalista, encabezado por las élites de los departamentos orientales. A partir de dos trabajos de investigación sobre la conflictividad y las nuevas configu…
The Politics of Indigenous Participation Through “Free Prior Informed Consent”
To Eradicate or to Legalize? Child Labor Debates and ILO Convention 182 in Bolivia
International human rights agreements promote rights-based norms as a guide for policymaking. But the appropriateness and legitimacy of these norms is sometimes questioned in local contexts, where they can generate disagreement as to their meaning and implementation. Convention 182 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) led to a global commitment to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, but the agreement has been subject to intense cr…
Fratricide identities
This article explores processes of identity-building and claims-making by rural social groups in the context of recent multicultural and plurinational reforms in Bolivia, focusing on an analysis of the narrative apparatus that underpins a paradigmatic land conflict between an indigenous organization and a peasant union in the Bolivian Amazon. The institutional shift that characterized the country after Evo Morales’ election has been reflected and…
À l'ombre de la reconnaissance
The recent political and constitutional reforms that gave birth to a new plurinational state model in Bolivia took place in the framework of a larger international debate over the “indigenous question”. Drawing upon a multidisciplinary and diachronic perspective as well as the findings of two years of field work in Bolivia, I underscore the effects these reforms – which may more generally be classified under broader “politics of recognition” – ha…
Evo Morales at the Crossroads
El conflicto en torno a la construcción de una carretera que atravesaría el Territorio Indígena del Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS), desatado en agosto de 2011, ha marcado un momento de ruptura en las relaciones entre el gobierno boliviano y los movimientos sociales, y entre las propias organizaciones. En este artículo se proporcionan algunos elementos de análisis que permitan comprender el reciente cambio en los equilibrios políticos y s…
The 'Indigenous Native Peasant' Trinity
Over the last two decades Latin America has been a laboratory for the implementation of new models of state and citizenship. In Bolivia the (neo)liberal multicultural paradigm dominant in the 1990s has recently been replaced by a plurinational paradigm, which implies a deepening of the decentralization process and the strengthening of rights for traditionally marginalized social sectors. This paper describes the process of construction of a pluri…
Indigenous Peasant 'Otherness
SinceMorales's election, rural movements have become the new protagonists ofBolivian politics. Previous analyses have emphasised their active role in shaping national politics, often focusing on those organisations as a compact block. However, their relationship is marked by both cooperation and fragmentation. This article provides a narrative ofBolivian socio-political history over the last 60 years, establishing four main phases of identitarian…
Indigenous peoples vs peasant unions
Agrarian reforms do not constitute linear processes: rather, they are based on the interconnection between the crystallization of land governance in formal tenure rules and the way societies organize around a set of identities and power mechanisms. This paper focuses on how the misinterpretation of this two-way relationship, in setting up a new normative framework, can generate unintended consequences in terms of conflict. The recent wave of land…
On the Perils and Potentialities of Revolution
Bolivia is living a moment of transition that has raised expectations of a profound transformation of the state-civil-society relationship and of conflict dynamics. The Movimiento al Socialismo has promoted the direct participation of previously excluded sectors in public affairs and the integration of the traditional practices of indigenous groups into formal institutional structures. The heterogeneity of its ruling coalition has posed serious c…
The «Proceso de Cambio» and the Seventh Year Crisis
On 18th December 2012, Evo Morales celebrated his seventh anniversary as president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. In 2005, this Aymara coca growers’ union leader was elected for the first time, with the support of social movements and, in particular, of the peasant and indigenous sectors, inaugurating a moment of political transition that raised many expectations for an in-depth transformation of the state-civil societal relationship. A c…
Conflicting Information Strategies in the 2006 Lebanese War
Wars have changed in recent times in many ways, not least because of the role played in warfare by the media and communication technologies. The ‘art of war’ has inevitably felt the consequences of the information revolution that has left traces in all spheres of social life and in every part of the world. Various phrases have been invented to describe the result of this change, such as Fourth Generation War, Information Warfare, and the Sixth Mi…
The Politics of Indigenous Participation Through “Free Prior Informed Consent”
Indigenous peoples vs peasant unions
Agrarian reforms do not constitute linear processes: rather, they are based on the interconnection between the crystallization of land governance in formal tenure rules and the way societies organize around a set of identities and power mechanisms. This paper focuses on how the misinterpretation of this two-way relationship, in setting up a new normative framework, can generate unintended consequences in terms of conflict. The recent wave of land…
The 'Indigenous Native Peasant' Trinity
Over the last two decades Latin America has been a laboratory for the implementation of new models of state and citizenship. In Bolivia the (neo)liberal multicultural paradigm dominant in the 1990s has recently been replaced by a plurinational paradigm, which implies a deepening of the decentralization process and the strengthening of rights for traditionally marginalized social sectors. This paper describes the process of construction of a pluri…
On the Perils and Potentialities of Revolution
Bolivia is living a moment of transition that has raised expectations of a profound transformation of the state-civil-society relationship and of conflict dynamics. The Movimiento al Socialismo has promoted the direct participation of previously excluded sectors in public affairs and the integration of the traditional practices of indigenous groups into formal institutional structures. The heterogeneity of its ruling coalition has posed serious c…
To Eradicate or to Legalize? Child Labor Debates and ILO Convention 182 in Bolivia
International human rights agreements promote rights-based norms as a guide for policymaking. But the appropriateness and legitimacy of these norms is sometimes questioned in local contexts, where they can generate disagreement as to their meaning and implementation. Convention 182 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) led to a global commitment to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, but the agreement has been subject to intense cr…
Human Rights and the Pink Tide in Latin America
Latin America witnessed the election of 'new Left' governments in the early 21stcentury that, in different ways, sought to open a debate about alternatives to paradigms of neoliberal development. What has this meant for the way that human rights are understood and for patterns of human rights compliance? Using qualitative and quantitative evidence, this article discusses how human rights are imagined and the compliance records of new Left governm…
Indigenous Peasant 'Otherness
SinceMorales's election, rural movements have become the new protagonists ofBolivian politics. Previous analyses have emphasised their active role in shaping national politics, often focusing on those organisations as a compact block. However, their relationship is marked by both cooperation and fragmentation. This article provides a narrative ofBolivian socio-political history over the last 60 years, establishing four main phases of identitarian…
Evo Morales at the Crossroads
El conflicto en torno a la construcción de una carretera que atravesaría el Territorio Indígena del Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS), desatado en agosto de 2011, ha marcado un momento de ruptura en las relaciones entre el gobierno boliviano y los movimientos sociales, y entre las propias organizaciones. En este artículo se proporcionan algunos elementos de análisis que permitan comprender el reciente cambio en los equilibrios políticos y s…
Forum Theatre for Reconciliation
This paper examines how participatory theatre methods can be used to foster reconciliation and conduct research in communities affected by socio-environmental conflicts. We design and pilot a distinctive drama-based approach to conflict transformation that we call Forum Theatre for Reconciliation (FTR). The method furthers embodied intersubjective understanding as well as a critical analysis of structural causes of conflict. We discuss this appro…
Seeing others. Seeing us
Written in the present continuous tense, Seeing Others is a lucid analysis of contemporary American society. In contrast to a widespread gloominess about the future, this is a declaration of hope and a call for action: change the story to change history. From Hollywood movies to artistic practice, from daily routines to popular culture, a dense series of examples illustrates how narratives can be means to create more inclusive and equal societies…
On burning ground
In this essay, we report on a 2022 creative research collaboration in which we deployed Augusto Boal's models of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre to generate community dialogue and action on issues sparked by ecological crisis in Bolivia's Chiquitanía. Extremely fragile to anthropogenic action, the Chiquitanía is home to one of the world's largest dry forests, which is experiencing profound and recurrent wildfires. Responding to this on…
Fratricide identities
This article explores processes of identity-building and claims-making by rural social groups in the context of recent multicultural and plurinational reforms in Bolivia, focusing on an analysis of the narrative apparatus that underpins a paradigmatic land conflict between an indigenous organization and a peasant union in the Bolivian Amazon. The institutional shift that characterized the country after Evo Morales’ election has been reflected and…
Identity policies of education
Policy initiatives that seek to account for ethno-cultural differences in education and schooling have become increasingly popular over the past few decades. These include affirmative action measures and bilingual education models. The rationale for the implementation of these policies focuses on their potential to rectify historical discrimination by both levelling horizontal inequalities and granting equal value to different cultures and langua…
Conflicting Information Strategies in the 2006 Lebanese War
Wars have changed in recent times in many ways, not least because of the role played in warfare by the media and communication technologies. The ‘art of war’ has inevitably felt the consequences of the information revolution that has left traces in all spheres of social life and in every part of the world. Various phrases have been invented to describe the result of this change, such as Fourth Generation War, Information Warfare, and the Sixth Mi…
The «Proceso de Cambio» and the Seventh Year Crisis
On 18th December 2012, Evo Morales celebrated his seventh anniversary as president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. In 2005, this Aymara coca growers’ union leader was elected for the first time, with the support of social movements and, in particular, of the peasant and indigenous sectors, inaugurating a moment of political transition that raised many expectations for an in-depth transformation of the state-civil societal relationship. A c…
On the Perils and Potentialities of Revolution
Bolivia is living a moment of transition that has raised expectations of a profound transformation of the state-civil-society relationship and of conflict dynamics. The Movimiento al Socialismo has promoted the direct participation of previously excluded sectors in public affairs and the integration of the traditional practices of indigenous groups into formal institutional structures. The heterogeneity of its ruling coalition has posed serious c…
À l'ombre de la reconnaissance
The recent political and constitutional reforms that gave birth to a new plurinational state model in Bolivia took place in the framework of a larger international debate over the “indigenous question”. Drawing upon a multidisciplinary and diachronic perspective as well as the findings of two years of field work in Bolivia, I underscore the effects these reforms – which may more generally be classified under broader “politics of recognition” – ha…
Evo Morales at the Crossroads
El conflicto en torno a la construcción de una carretera que atravesaría el Territorio Indígena del Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS), desatado en agosto de 2011, ha marcado un momento de ruptura en las relaciones entre el gobierno boliviano y los movimientos sociales, y entre las propias organizaciones. En este artículo se proporcionan algunos elementos de análisis que permitan comprender el reciente cambio en los equilibrios políticos y s…
The 'Indigenous Native Peasant' Trinity
Over the last two decades Latin America has been a laboratory for the implementation of new models of state and citizenship. In Bolivia the (neo)liberal multicultural paradigm dominant in the 1990s has recently been replaced by a plurinational paradigm, which implies a deepening of the decentralization process and the strengthening of rights for traditionally marginalized social sectors. This paper describes the process of construction of a pluri…
Indigenous Peasant 'Otherness
SinceMorales's election, rural movements have become the new protagonists ofBolivian politics. Previous analyses have emphasised their active role in shaping national politics, often focusing on those organisations as a compact block. However, their relationship is marked by both cooperation and fragmentation. This article provides a narrative ofBolivian socio-political history over the last 60 years, establishing four main phases of identitarian…
Indigenous peoples vs peasant unions
Agrarian reforms do not constitute linear processes: rather, they are based on the interconnection between the crystallization of land governance in formal tenure rules and the way societies organize around a set of identities and power mechanisms. This paper focuses on how the misinterpretation of this two-way relationship, in setting up a new normative framework, can generate unintended consequences in terms of conflict. The recent wave of land…
The Politics of Indigenous Participation Through “Free Prior Informed Consent”
To Eradicate or to Legalize? Child Labor Debates and ILO Convention 182 in Bolivia
International human rights agreements promote rights-based norms as a guide for policymaking. But the appropriateness and legitimacy of these norms is sometimes questioned in local contexts, where they can generate disagreement as to their meaning and implementation. Convention 182 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) led to a global commitment to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, but the agreement has been subject to intense cr…
Fratricide identities
This article explores processes of identity-building and claims-making by rural social groups in the context of recent multicultural and plurinational reforms in Bolivia, focusing on an analysis of the narrative apparatus that underpins a paradigmatic land conflict between an indigenous organization and a peasant union in the Bolivian Amazon. The institutional shift that characterized the country after Evo Morales’ election has been reflected and…
Conflicto social y reterritorialización. Miradas cruzadas sobre movimientos rurales y regionalistas en Bolivia
Desde la crisis de octubre de 2003, mejor conocida como la "guerra del gas", el sistema político boliviano ha sido sacudido por dos movimientos: por una parte, el movimiento rural campesino-indígena, encarnado por el líder cocalero y actual presidente Evo Morales y, por otra, el movimiento regionalista, encabezado por las élites de los departamentos orientales. A partir de dos trabajos de investigación sobre la conflictividad y las nuevas configu…
Civil Society Organizations, Advocacy, and Policy Making in Latin American Democracies ‐ by Risley, Amy
The sustainable development goals
Federico M. Rossi, The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation
Identity policies of education
Policy initiatives that seek to account for ethno-cultural differences in education and schooling have become increasingly popular over the past few decades. These include affirmative action measures and bilingual education models. The rationale for the implementation of these policies focuses on their potential to rectify historical discrimination by both levelling horizontal inequalities and granting equal value to different cultures and langua…
Human Rights and the Pink Tide in Latin America
Latin America witnessed the election of 'new Left' governments in the early 21stcentury that, in different ways, sought to open a debate about alternatives to paradigms of neoliberal development. What has this meant for the way that human rights are understood and for patterns of human rights compliance? Using qualitative and quantitative evidence, this article discusses how human rights are imagined and the compliance records of new Left governm…
Recognition Politics
This pioneering work explores a new wave of widely overlooked conflicts that have emerged across the Andean region, coinciding with the implementation of internationally acclaimed indigenous rights. Why are groups that have peacefully cohabited for decades suddenly engaging in hostile and, at times, violent behaviours? What is the link between these conflicts and changes in collective self-identification, claim-making, and rent-seeking dynamics? …
Recognition Politics
Women in Wildfire Crises
On burning ground
In this essay, we report on a 2022 creative research collaboration in which we deployed Augusto Boal's models of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre to generate community dialogue and action on issues sparked by ecological crisis in Bolivia's Chiquitanía. Extremely fragile to anthropogenic action, the Chiquitanía is home to one of the world's largest dry forests, which is experiencing profound and recurrent wildfires. Responding to this on…
Forum Theatre for Reconciliation
This paper examines how participatory theatre methods can be used to foster reconciliation and conduct research in communities affected by socio-environmental conflicts. We design and pilot a distinctive drama-based approach to conflict transformation that we call Forum Theatre for Reconciliation (FTR). The method furthers embodied intersubjective understanding as well as a critical analysis of structural causes of conflict. We discuss this appro…
Indigenous vs. Peasants’ rights? Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina and the role of the Inter-American Human Rights System in communal interethnic conflicts
This article presents a socio-legal analysis of the Lhaka Honhat case, a decades-long territorial dispute between Indigenous communities and peasant settlers (criollos) in the Northern Argentinian Province of Salta. This is the first case in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights confronted the normative implications of interethnic communal conflicts. The court was called to apply human rights standards to resolve conflicting land claims …
Demographic pressure as a factor in inter-ethnic conflicts
This article explores the link between demographic pressure and inter-ethnic conflicts. Relying on a mixed-methods approach applied to the paradigmatic case of the Cauca region of Colombia, we argue that demographic pressure can play an important role in explaining a recent wave of conflicts between indigenous, mestizo peasant and Afro-Colombian communities. We find that increasing population density within indigenous territories (resguardos) inc…
Seeing others. Seeing us
Written in the present continuous tense, Seeing Others is a lucid analysis of contemporary American society. In contrast to a widespread gloominess about the future, this is a declaration of hope and a call for action: change the story to change history. From Hollywood movies to artistic practice, from daily routines to popular culture, a dense series of examples illustrates how narratives can be means to create more inclusive and equal societies…
Political science (25 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Law (17 obras) · Politics (15 obras) · Indigenous (11 obras) · Politics and Society in Latin America (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Political economy (10 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Art (6 obras)