Indigenous Peoples and the Geographies of Power (Hardcover)

Hardcover. Tracing key trends of the global-regional-local interface of power, Ines Duran 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 institutional networks and the relationship between the indigenous community of Mezcala and the Mexican state, Ines Duran Matute demonstrates how global political economic processes shape the lives, projects and identity of the most remote communities. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…