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"This book is an interdisciplinary study of struggles for indigenous self-determination and the recognition of indigenous' territorial rights in Latin America. Studies of indigenous peoples' opposition to extractive industries have tended to focus on its economic, political or social aspects, as if these were discrete dimensions of the conflict. In contrast, this book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the tensions between indigenous peoples' territorial rights and the governance of extractive industries and related state developmental policies. Analysing the contentious process pushed by indigenous peoples for implementing pluri-nationality against extractive projects and pro-extractive policies, the book compares the struggle for territorial rights in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. Centrally, it argues that indigenous territorial defenses against the extractive industries articulate a politics of self-determination that challenges coloniality as the foundation of the nation-state. The resource governance of the nation-state assumes that indigenous peoples must be integrated or assimilated within multicultural arrangements as ethnic minorities with proprietary entitlements, so they can participate in the benefits of development. As the struggle for indigenous self-determination in Latin America maintains that indigenous peoples must not be considered as ethnic communities with property rights, but as nations with territorial rights, this book argues that it offers a radical re-imagination of politics, development, and constitutional arrangements. Drawing on detailed case studies, this book's multidisciplinary account of indigenous movements in Latin America will appeal to those with relevant interests in politics, law, sociology and development studies"--

A massive indigenous protest in the Peruvian Amazon and its aftermaths triggered a socialconsensus in Peru about the necessity of intercultural policies and the enactment of aConsultation Law, a norm based on the ILO Convention 169 to consult indigenous peoples beforeapproving any norm that can affect indigenous collective rights. Nonetheless, the paper arguesthat, like previous legal reforms related to the recognition of indigenous rights, the ConsultationLaw remains conceiving indigenous peoples as minorities with proprietary entitlements instead ofconceiving them as nations with territorial rights. The Law is a form of liberal legality stillembedded in coloniality. Consequently, indigenous peoples maintain a tense and ambiguousrelation with liberal legality: they use the Consultation Law for territorial defence, but at the sametime they criticise the limitations of this legislation to fully take into account indigenouscosmologies.

Environmental governance and its international legal architecture are assumed as a neutral space for negotiation that allows mediating political divergences on how to tackle climate change; however, this governance normalizes a series of instruments and institutional arrangements based on questionable political and economic foundations. ; La gobernanza ambiental y su arquitectura legal internacional son asumidos como un espacio neutral de negociación que permite mediar divergencias políticas sobre cómo afrontar el cambio climático; sin embargo, esta gobernanza normaliza una serie de instrumentos y arreglos institucionales basados en discutibles fundamentos políticos y económicos.