Limits to Decolonization

Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco

Bibliographic Data

ID2706476
AuthorsPenelope Anthias (0000-0002-5776-0401, Center for Global Development, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages312
Publication date2018-07-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byLimits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco, T Perreault, 2019
VenueLimits to Decolonization (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/9781501714290
OpenAlexW2788708765
Open LibraryOL33635694M
ISBN9781501714290
LanguageEN
Citations received106

Penelope Anthias’s Limits to Decolonization addresses one of the most important issues in contemporary indigenous politics: struggles for territory. Based on the experience of thirty-six Guaraní communities in the Bolivian Chaco, Anthias reveals how two decades of indigenous mapping and land titling have failed to reverse a historical trajectory of indigenous dispossession in the Bolivian lowlands. Through an ethnographic account of the "limits" the Guaraní have encountered over the course of their territorial claim—from state boundaries to landowner opposition to hydrocarbon development—Anthias raises critical questions about the role of maps and land titles in indigenous struggles for self-determination.Anthias argues that these unresolved territorial claims are shaping the contours of an era of "post-neoliberal" politics in Bolivia. Limits to Decolonization reveals the surprising ways in which indigenous peoples are reframing their territorial projects in the context of this hydrocarbon state and drawing on their experiences of the limits of state recognition. The tensions of Bolivia’s "process of change" are revealed, as Limits to Decolonization rethinks current debates on cultural rights, resource politics, and Latin American leftist states. In sum, Anthias reveals the creative and pragmatic ways in which indigenous peoples contest and work within the limits of postcolonial rule in pursuit of their own visions of territorial autonomy

Archaeology · Autonomy · Context (archaeology · Decolonization · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Indigenous rights · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Ecology · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Bolivia · Gas industry · Guarani Indians · Indians of South America · Land tenure · politics and government

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