Revista Alteridades
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Alteridades No. 14 Abstracts hot!
- Resumen de los artÃculos en inglés
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Autodeterminación ¿para quién? La encrucijada quebequensehot!
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Pierre Beaucage. Self-determination, for whom? The quebecois croosroads.
In Canada, the movement for autonomy and self-government which developed among the indigenous nations, mostly during the last three decades, met not only with State power, but also with the independentist quebecois movement which grew during the same period. At the political level, the latter is now mostly represented by the Parti Quebecois, in power in Quebec, where the majority of Canada’s six millions French-speakers live. This article first explores the historical roots of the Canadian intricate pattern of interethnic relations. While Spain conquered, France and England had to ally with Indian nations, and the profitability of the fur trade required that natives retained autonomy over vast territories. After the British conquest of New France, treaties, not war, were made with Amerindians regarding the cession of land. In a second part, the article defines the present political context of this double struggle for autonomy and tries to identify the possible scenarios for the near future.
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AutonomÃa y derecho de autodeterminación: el caso del PaÃs Vascohot!
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Jone Goirizelaia. Autonomy and self-determination right: the País Vasco case.
Essentially, the article refers to a perspective of the right to self-determination of people and nations, meaning the latter as a whole, which allows people to develop it, whether making it concrete within the creation of a different political and territorial frame or searching new ways of alliance with a State. The article outstands that life presumes situations of facts to the cautious legislative developments, which respond more to the State own interests rather than the striving of people. The historical and present characteristics are important for the performance of the right to self-determination, but the essential fact is the existence of the will of maintaining their identities and to struggle in order to achieve the performance of the mentioned right. There is a deliberation regarding the concept of minorities within the frame of plurinational states from the international normativity. The article declares that autonomy can be a phase or a way to selfdetermination for a human community an two statements are distinguished regarding this concept: a) a way to “release pressure” of the states by means of the administrative regionalization or decentralization; that is, the autonomy as a State concession and b) a way of development and organization of a human group which allows to safeguard its characteristics and to preserve its determination of the future; that is, the autonomy as a right of the human group who receives it. If autonomy is utilized to lessen the righteous concern and the rights of a human collective, it becomes a new oppression frame and it looses its reason of existing. Within this context, the situation of the people from the vasco region is exposed, distributed between two states within three different administrative divisions, without acknowledging their condition of community in none of the mentioned states, without any access to any international environment as such, and faced and submitted by two states, specially obstinate with centralism. The conclusion is that the human communities and nations have the absolute right to struggle for the acknowledgment of their rights in defense of their future and as a necessary legacy of humanity.
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AutonomÃas y movimiento indÃgena en México: debates y desafÃoshot!
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Alicia Castellanos Guerrero y Gilberto López y Rivas. Autonomies and indigenous movement in Mexico: debates and challenges.
The constitutional acknowledgment regarding the rights of indigenous people in Latin-America, has been a process of very long struggles. This work describes the various stages of the mentioned process in Mexico, emphasizing the controversies in regards to the autonomy of the indigenous people originated just after the raising of the mayan-zapatistas. The work recognizes the positions which were presented an negotiated by the parties during the Table of Dialogue regarding indigenous rights which was held in San Andres Larrainzar, Chiapas and the different conceptions defended by the participants. From that point, The work analyses the initiative of the law of indigenous rights which, based on the San Andres agreement, the commission of concord formulated, defending that its reaches and limitations were the result of a negotiation which certainly
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