Multiculturalism in Latin America

During the last fifteen years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue that these changes post fundamental challenges to accepted notions of democracy, citizenship and development in the region. Using case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, they analyze the ways in which new legal frameworks have been implemented, appropriated and contested within a wider context of accelerating economic and legal globalization, highlighting the key implications for social policy, human rights and social justice.

XAVIER ALBÓ Researcher, Centre for the Research and Promotion of the Campesino, La Paz ROBERT ANDOLINA Assistant Professor of Political Science, Bates College, Maine, USA DONNA LEE VAN COTT Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville DEMETRIO COJTI CUXIL Vice-Minister for Education, United National Children's Fund (UNICEF) Guatemala SHELTON H. DAVIS Sector Manager, Social Development Unit, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank, Washington RACQUEL YRIGOYEN FAJARDO Editor of the Website Alertanet-Portal on Law and Society of the Latin America Network of Law and Society NINA LAURIE Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Newcastle University GUILLERMO DE LA PEÑA Research Professor, Centre de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, (CIESAS), Guadalajara, Mexico ROGER PLANT Special Action Programme against Forced Labour, International Labour Organization, (ILO) Geneva SARAH RADCLIFFE Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge RODOLFO STAVENHAGEN Research Professor in Sociology, El Colegio de México and United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Indigenous People