2017-2018 Meetings
Indigenous Resource Governance
The group’s theme was Indigenous Resource Governance, examining the complex forms of governance that link indigenous peoples in Latin America to resource extraction. One the one hand, indigenous groups have managed their lands and resources for thousands of years, co-existing, resisting, and negotiating with conquest, state-building, and capitalism. On the other, as neoliberal policies expanded, the scale and speed of extractivism has increased, but so have the political means for indigenous groups to organize and govern their own territories. With attention to this paradox, our group asked questions about the persistent and ongoing claims to Indigenous sovereignty over land and resources despite the strength of neoliberal settler states.
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
October 24, 2017Dr. Wendy Townsend, Museo Noel Kempf, Bolivia
Water is Life Chapter Workshop
November 17, 2017Dr. Teresa Velasquez, Associate Professor, Anthropology, California State University at San Bernardino
We workshopped a chapter from Dr. Velasquez’s upcoming book, Pachamama Politics: Defending Water as Life in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes.
Sovereign Forces Chapter Workshop
February 6, 2018Dr. John Andrew McNeish, Professor, Anthropology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Aymara Merchants Chapter Workshop
March 6, 2018Jorge Montesinos, UC Riverside
Land Planning in Peru
March 9, 2018Dr. Maria-Therese Gustafson, Political Science, Stockholm University