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- Title
"No Trespassing": Changing and Contested Rights to Land in the Guyanese Amazon.
- Authors
MacDonald, Katherine
- Abstract
The Makushi and Wapishana peoples of the Rupununi region of Guyana have been fighting for the rights to their traditional territories since contact with European colonists first challenged them. Although Indigenous rights to territory remain unsettled within the country, in 2013, the national government agreed to lease 8,000 hectares of unceded territory to Brazilian plantation agriculturalists, claiming that savannah agriculture is an integral component of national development strategies. The Makushi and Wapishana have identified several concerns with this agricultural project. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper exposes the inherent problems that are raised when economic and political ambitions dominate environmental and social concerns.
- Subjects
RUPUNUNI (Guyana); GUYANA; WAPISIANA (South American people); INDIGENOUS peoples; PLANTATIONS; INDIGENOUS rights
- Publication
Journal of Latin American Geography, 2016, Vol 15, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
1545-2476
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lag.2016.0000