Tracing key trends of the global-regional-local interface of power, Inés Durán Matute through the case of the indigenous community of Mezcala (Mexico) demonstrates how global political economic processes shape the lives, spaces, projects and identities of the most remote communities. Throughout the book, in-depth interviews, participant observations and text collection, offer the reader insight into the functioning of neoliberal governance, how it is sustained in networks of power and rhetorics deployed, and how it is experienced. People, as passively and actively participate in its courses of action, are being enmeshed in these geographies of power seeking out survival strategies, but also constructing autonomous projects that challenge such forms of governance. This book, by bringing together the experience of a geopolitical locality and the literature from the Latin American Global South into the discussions within the Global Northern academia, offers an original and timely transdisciplinary approach that challenges the interpretations of power and development while also prioritizing and respecting the local production of knowledge.

Tracing key trends of the global-regional-local interface of power, Inés Durán Matute through the case of the indigenous community of Mezcala (Mexico) demonstrates how global political economic processes shape the lives, spaces, projects and identities of the most remote communities. Throughout the book, in-depth interviews, participant observations and text collection, offer the reader insight into the functioning of neoliberal governance, how it is sustained in networks of power and rhetorics deployed, and how it is experienced. People, as passively and actively participate in its courses of action, are being enmeshed in these geographies of power seeking out survival strategies, but also constructing autonomous projects that challenge such forms of governance. This book, by bringing together the experience of a geopolitical locality and the literature from the Latin American Global South into the discussions within the Global Northern academia, offers an original and timely transdisciplinary approach that challenges the interpretations of power and development while also prioritizing and respecting the local production of knowledge.

Al trazar las tendencias clave de la interfaz global-regional-local de poder, Inés Durán Matute, a través del caso de la comunidad indígena de Mezcala, México, demuestra cómo los procesos económico-políticos globales moldean las vidas, espacios, proyectos e identidades de las comunidades más remotas. A lo largo del libro, las entrevistas a profundidad, la observación participante y la recopilación de textos ofrecen al lector una visión del funcionamiento de la gobernanza neoliberal, de cómo ésta es sustentada por las redes de poder y las retóricas desplegadas, y cómo es vivida. Las personas, como participantes pasivos y activos en sus formas de proceder, son sumergidas en estas geografías de poder buscando estrategias de supervivencia, pero también construyendo proyectos autónomos que desafían estas formas de gobernanza. Este libro, al conectar la experiencia de una localidad geopolítica y la literatura del "Sur Global" latinoamericano con las discusiones de la academia del "Norte Global", ofrece un enfoque transdisciplinario original y oportuno que desafía las interpretaciones de poder y desarrollo, al mismo tiempo que prioriza y respeta la producción local de conocimiento.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the complicated power relations surrounding the recognition and implementation of Indigenous Peoples' rights at multiple scales. The adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007 was heralded as the beginning of a new era for Indigenous Peoples' participation in global governance bodies, as well as for the realization of their rights - in particular, the right to self-determination. These rights are defined and agreed upon internationally, but must be enacted at regional, national, and local scales. Can the global movement to promote Indigenous Peoples' rights change the experience of communities at the local level? Or are the concepts that it mobilizes, around rights and political tools, essentially a discourse circulating internationally, relatively disconnected from practical situations? Are the categories and processes associated with Indigenous Peoples simply an extension of colonial categories and processes, or do they challenge existing norms and structures? This collection draws together the works of anthropologists, political scientists, and legal scholars to address such questions. Examining the legal, historical, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of the Indigenous Peoples' rights movement, at global, regional, national, and local levels, the chapters present a series of case studies that reveal the complex power relations that inform the ongoing struggles of Indigenous Peoples to secure their human rights. The book will be of interest to social scientists and legal scholars studying Indigenous Peoples' rights, and international human rights movements in general.

This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic. It offers insights from Nordic countries, Canada and Russia to present different systems of resource governance and practices of managing industry-indigenous peoples' relations.