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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
wiley   +1 more source

Loving to Straighten Out Development: Sexuality and ‘Ethnodevelopment’ in the World Bank’s Ecuadorian Lending [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Gender staff in the World Bank -- the world's largest and most influential development institution -- have a policy problem. Having prioritised efforts to get women into paid employment as the "cure-all" for gender inequality they must deal with the work
A Aulestia   +78 more
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Whose knowledge, whose cure? traditional medicine and the boundaries of WIPO's 2024 genetic resources treaty

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Traditional medicine—including complementary, integrative, Indigenous, and ancestral practices—remains a vital source of healthcare for billions worldwide, particularly in the Global South. Despite its widespread use and biomedical relevance, traditional medicinal knowledge has long been excluded from dominant intellectual property systems ...
Tolulope Anthony Adekola
wiley   +1 more source

Comentarios y respuesta

open access: yesPoblación & Sociedad, 2018
El artículo “Mountains, Kurakas and Mummies: Transformations in Indigenous Andean Sovereignty” fue debatido entre especialistas de diversas disciplinas, especialistas en la temática. Posteriormente se solicitó la respuesta del autor.
Axel Nielsen   +4 more
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Estatus jurídico político de los pueblos indígenas del Perú: perspectivas del modelo de Estado Constitucional de Derecho

open access: yesDeusto Journal of Human Rights, 2017
This article carries out an approach to the constitutional evolution of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Peru. Also, examines how much it has advanced in the establishment of the guarantees of the cultural plurality of the indigenous peoples ...
Mercedes Manríquez Roque
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Book Review Essay: The Mature Phase: Four Generations of Scholarship on Colonial Mesoamerica and New Spain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay reviews the following works: Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World. Edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 276. $55.00 cloth.
Matthew, Laura E.
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Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Evidence for the ongoing biodiversity crisis rests on assessment of a small fraction of described species, with major knowledge gaps for most organisms, including plants. Here, we highlight how digitised herbarium specimens can be used to accelerate and improve estimates of recent and ongoing plant extinctions.
Aelys M. Humphreys   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
wiley   +1 more source

Pastoral Visitations: Spaces of Negotiation in Andean Indigenous Parishes

open access: yesThe Americas, 2016
In the Andes, the pastoral visitation of Indian parishes usually evokes the idea of a strongly oppositional relationship between the Church and local society. This vision, lacking in nuance, has been widely disseminated both within the academy and outside it.
openaire   +1 more source

What, if Any, Are the Ethical Obligations of the U.S. Patent Office? A Closer Look at the Biological Sampling of Indigenous Groups [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The patenting of biological resources collected from indigenous groups has become a controversial trend. Two U.S. patents in particular, one claiming a cell-line from a 26-year old Guayami woman and one claiming a leukemia virus from a Hagahai man in ...
Whelan, Marina L.
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