Revista Alteridades
Revista Alteridades
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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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Demandas indÃgenas y reforma legal: retos y paradojashot!
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Diego A. Iturralde Guerrero. Indigenous requests and legal reformations: Challenges and paradoxes.
This text explores the relationship between the vindication of indigenous right which is the main claim of the indigenous movement, and the new legal changes which Latin-American constitutions have recently experienced, as one of the central points where all the stress of the indigenous people is presently concentrated as well as of the national states. The author undertakes these topics from a global viewpoint in order to outstand the tendencies, showing the development of the indigenous movement as well as the changes of State policies, incorporating likewise, the scenery of international cooperation which makes an impact on them. Some of the challenges that indigenous movements face, are deeply explored, as it is the fact of having reached a high level on ideological development -regarding the vindication of their own ethnical identities as new social performers- and the limitations still observed in the political level. It is also pointed out, that even though the constitutional reformations keep a connection with the requests and pressures of the indigenous movement, they have been made due to the interest of a State renewal, more with regard to the ethnical and cultural diversity as a sign of modernity.
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El régimen de autonomÃa en Nicaragua: contradicciones históricas y debates recienteshot!
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Manuel Ortega Hegg. The autonomy régime in Nicaragua: historical contradictions and recent arguments.
This article sets forth the singularity of Nicaragua within the Latin-American context as it is a self-governing country due to socio-ethnic reasons. The experience of Nicaragua can not be separated from the so-called regularities of the ethnic problematic, although it presupposes its own characteristics, The author explains these characteristics within the accomplishments of the Nicaraguan ethnic matter and it summarizes the main arguments when the autonomous government was authorized; the argument regarding its solution and the one of the citizens rights in the autonomous areas. Straight afterwards, the author gets involved in some of the contradictions and recent arguments; the autonomy as a government policy against autonomy as a State policy; the party system and the regional autonomy; the minority of interethnic contradictions and the contradictions amongst historical problems as well as the immediate expectatives of solution. Finally, the author states that the autonomous government implies very deep transformations in the traditional states and nations, but it also implies the institutionalization of new values which will guide new practices amongst multiethnic social performers.
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La Constitución de 1991 y la perspectiva del multiculturalismo en Colombiahot!
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Roberto Pineda Camacho. The 1991 Constitution and the perspective of multiculturalism in Colombia.
The objective of this article is to consider the meaning of the new 1991 Constitution regarding the practice of multicultural politics in Colombia, mainly, as far as the situation of ethnic indigenous minorities is concerned as well as Afro-American communities; and concerning the construction of a nation sealed by cultural pluralism, in a country where traditionally defines itself as “mestizo”. The essay holds the idea that the new nation model promoted by the present constitution, responds to a particular sort of radical multiculturalism relatively lessened, which does not challenge the idea of the construction of a Colombian nation neither does the construction of a liberal democracy. The acknowledgment of special rights on the political level and the active participation of judges within the process, are necessary mechanisms in order to balance the secular asymmetrical relationships amongst different sectors of the country and ethnical groups. Therefore, Colombia represents an interesting case in order to think about the multiculturalism problem as well as about democracy in Latinamerica, which without any doubt, represents nowadays, one of the main challenges of the contemporary world.
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