A political ecology of Northwest Amazonia: Indigenous ‘Management of the World’ and the Politics of Territorial Ordering in Colombia
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- Autores
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- 869943
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Forma obra
- Tesis
- Lugar de producción
- 2002
- Idioma
- inglés
- Nota de edición
- Digitalización realizada por la Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República (Colombia)
- Materias
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- Ciencias sociales; Ciencias sociales / Administración pública y ciencia militar
- Notas
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- Colfuturo
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- Amazonas (Colombia)
- Conflicto político; Derechos territoriales indígenas; Enviroamental security; Noroeste Amazónico; Environmental management; Indigenous territorial rights; Manejo ambiental; Northwest Amazonia; Political conflict; Seguridad ambiental
- This thesis provides a description of political conflicts derived from differences in perspectives of environmental management and governance for Northwest Amazonia (NWA). A chapter is devoted to analysing the impact of State security policy in the development of indigenous’ territorial rights. The chapter concludes that the Colombian and USA government discourses of security coincide that the derived policies increase environmental risks and hinder indigenous peoples’ rights.
Survey forms are treated as an additional source of discourse and are used to illustrate different perspectives with respect to governance and territorial ordering in Amazonia. It is argued that inhabitants of the industrialised countries with access to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in many senses share the responsibility for the actual state of affairs in NWA, as well as other parts of the developing world where there is precarious access to ICT.
Central to the thesis is the idea that we are passing through a moment of conceptual ‘dissolution’: dissolution of the divide ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ / ‘Western Sciences’, of the distinction between ‘Social Resistance’ and ‘Social Adaptation’, and of the differentiation between ‘Corporate Management’ and ‘State Security policy’. The thesis describes how this dissolution is occurring at the same time as cultural identity is mutating. The thesis goes beyond discourses surrounding the governance of NWA, by offering a contemporary critique of the concept of ‘globalisation’, and an attempt to locate it in the a 21st century cultural context.
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