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"In the face of new extraction, communities in Latin America's hydrocarbon and mining regions use participatory institutions powerfully. In some cases, communities act within the formal participatory spaces, while in others, they organized "around" or "in reaction to" the institutions, using participatory procedures as focal points for escalating conflict. Communities select their strategies in response to the participatory challenges they confront. Those challenges are associated with contestation over the boundaries that determine access to participatory institutions. Contestation over the line between subnational authority vis-à-vis central-state jurisdictions heightens communities' chal...
Este libro retoma la tradici?n del Instituto de Estudios Peruanos de publicar ensayos interpretativos de largo recorridos sobre la historia peruana. Once investigadores e investigadoras de diferentes disciplinas (antrop?logos, historiadores, economistas, soci?logos, cient?ficos pol?ticos) se preguntan por los cambios y continuidades desde el d?a de la independencia hasta la actualidad. Su indagaci?n plantea preguntas clave, plenamente vigentes: qu? hicimos bien, qu? hicimos al y qu? podemos hacer mejor para convertirnos en una naci?n de ciudadanos libres, independientes e iguales.
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Spanish monarchs recognized the jurisdictions of many self-governing corporate groups, including Jews and Muslims on the peninsula, indigenous peoples in their American colonies, and enslaved and free people of African descent across the empire. Republics of Difference examines fifteenth-century Seville and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Lima to show how religiously- and racially-based self-governance functioned in a society with many kinds of law, what effects it had on communities, and why it mattered. By comparing these minoritized communities on both sides of the Spanish Atlantic world, this study offers a new understanding of the distinct standings of those communities in their urba...