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- Title
Resource Sovereignties in Bolivia: Re-Conceptualising the Relationship between Indigenous Identities and the Environment during the TIPNIS Conflict.
- Authors
LAING, ANNA F.
- Abstract
This paper examines the active re-construction of indigenous identities within the Plurinational State of Bolivia through the case study of a resource conflict that arose with the government's announcement of its intention to build a road through a national park and indigenous territory, the Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure ( TIPNIS; Indigenous Territory and Isiboro Sécure National Park). Ethnographic fieldwork shows that both the state and the lowland indigenous movement have fashioned essentialised understandings of an indigenous identity linked to the environment in order to legitimise competing resource sovereignty claims.
- Subjects
BOLIVIA; INDIGENOUS peoples of Bolivia; IDENTITY (Psychology) in adolescence; NATIONAL parks &; reserves; POLITICAL parties; BOLIVIAN politics &; government, 2006-; CONSERVATION of natural resources -- Government policy; ENVIRONMENTAL activism; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0261-3050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/blar.12211