Description
Book SynopsisThis book breaks new ground in understanding urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice. It is the first comprehensive and comparative study that foregrounds the complex interplay of multiple organisations involved in translating indigenous rights to the city in Latin America, focussing on the cities of La Paz and Quito.
The book establishes how planning for urban indigeneity looks in practice, even in seemingly progressive settings, such as Bolivia and Ecuador, where indigenous rights to the city are recognised within constitutions. It demonstrates that the translation of indigenous rights to the city is a process involving different actor groups operating within state institutions and indigenous communities, which often hold conflicting interests and needs. The book also establishes a set of theoretical, methodological, and practical foundations for envisaging how urban indigenous planning in Latin America and elsewhere should be understood, studied, and undert
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: From inhabitants of the forest to the concrete jungle
Part one: Concepts and context
2. The emergence of urban indigeneity and the indigenous right to the city
3. Indigeneity in urban policy and planning practice
4. The making of two indigenous cities
Part two: Experiences from La Paz, Bolivia and Quito, Ecuador
5. Urban indigeneity as lived experience
6. Urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice
7. Claiming indigenous rights to the city
8. Conclusion
