INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE LAW IN NEOLIBERAL CONTEXT

Between strategic use, dispossession and criminalization

Authors

  • Maria Teresa Sierra
  • Orlando Aragón Profesor de la División de Estudios de Posgrado de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalg, Morelia, Michoacán.

Keywords:

Indigenous people, Neoliberalism, Violence

Abstract

The year 2000 marked a time of great hope for many social sectors in Mexico. The electoral defeat, that happened this year, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country for over seventy years, seemed to herald new life to the stagnant Mexican state, an alleged opening to the construction of more egalitarian relationships with historically marginalized social sectors, especially with the Indians, and in general, with what some groups saw as the flourishment of a civic culture rooted in democratic practices and in a multiparty system.

These expectations soon faded, however; not only did it not produce the expected changes but it sophisticated and deepened anti-democratic practices of the old regime; as well as helped economic exclusion and marginalization because of the radicalization of neoliberal policies that began with the previous PRI governments. For indigenous peoples the bounded constitutional reforms of 2001, which recognized their rights of free self determination and autonomy, soon showed its limits accompanied by regulations that reduced the scope of rights granted and which were accompanied by policies to promote privatization of indigenous lands and to facilitate the incursion of transnational capital in areas with attractive natural resources to the demand of world capitalism.

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Author Biography

Maria Teresa Sierra

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social-México.

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Published

2018-12-10

How to Cite

Sierra, M. T., & Aragón, O. (2018). INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE LAW IN NEOLIBERAL CONTEXT: Between strategic use, dispossession and criminalization. Journal of Study and Research on the Americas, 7(2), 3–10. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/repam/article/view/20217

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Seção Temática

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