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Resource sovereignties in Bolivia: re-conceptualising the relationship between indigenous identities and the environment during the TIPNIS conflict

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posted on 2023-06-09, 04:04 authored by Anna LaingAnna Laing
This paper examines the active re-construction of indigenous identities within the Plurinational State of Bolivia through the case study of a resource conflict that arose with the government’s announcement of its intention to build a road through a national park and indigenous territory, the Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS; Indigenous Territory and Isiboro Sécure National Park). Ethnographic fieldwork shows that both the state and the lowland indigenous movement have fashioned essentialised understandings of an indigenous identity linked to the environment in order to legitimise competing resource sovereignty claims.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Bulletin of Latin American Research

ISSN

0261-3050

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Issue

2

Volume

34

Page range

149-166

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  • Geography Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-11-17

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-11-17

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-11-16

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