Securing Territory: State Interests and Indigenous Land Titling in Latin America

Rayo, Giorleny A

ISBN 10: 019777086X / ISBN 13: 9780197770863

Published by Oxford University Press, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Securing Territory: State Interests and Indigenous Land Titling in Latin America
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019777086X
• ISBN 13: 9780197770863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very good

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Synopsis

This book shows that state elites decide to allocate land and natural resource rights to Indigenous people not as a response to human rights activism or democratic pressure, but to build an institutional apparatus that facilitates control over vulnerable territories in remote regions. By titling Indigenous lands, state elites create new institutional arrangements in property that allows for the subordination, monitoring, and management of Indigenous society.

About the Author

Giorleny Altamirano Rayo is an Instructor in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a lawyer, political scientist, and applied researcher interested in property rights, natural resource management, and political-economic development issues in Latin America in a comparative perspective. Her work has been funded by Fulbright, the National Science Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Vanderbilt University. She is the author of numerous articles about the Global South and also the translator of original work about historical and contemporary Latin American politics. In addition to her scholarly work, she serves as a Chief Data Scientist and Responsible AI Official at the United States Department of State, served as a diplomat in the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and as an applied researcher at Vanderbilt University. She has been working and conducting research in and about the Global South for over fifteen years. The views expressed in this and other works are her own and not necessarily those of the U.S. Government and the U.S. Department of State.