Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary StateStanford University Press, 2007 M07 16 - 299 pages People of African descent living in the Colombian Andes had long been struggling, as peasants and workers, for political participation and equal citizenship. When the 1991 Colombian Constitution enabled them to claim territory as ethnic groups, their demands became part of a growing worldwide phenomenon of citizenship claims that are based on territory and expressed through cultural distinction. This book looks at two such claims pursued by Afro-Colombians in the 1990s and investigates how territory serves to connect and disconnect citizen and state in the context of today's changing state authority, legitimacy, and institutions. |
Contents
Turf Wars | 24 |
SelfGovernance | 49 |
The Contemporary State | 71 |
Suspect Nationals | 99 |
Ancestral Lands | 135 |
Tense Territories | 171 |
Citizenship | 181 |
Equal Citizens | 195 |
Participation | 229 |
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Page 75 - But we scarcely retain a vestige of what once was; we are, moreover, neither Indian nor European, but a species midway between the legitimate proprietors of this country and the Spanish usurpers. In short, though Americans by birth we derive our rights from Europe, and we have to assert these rights against the rights of the natives, and at the same time we must defend ourselves against the invaders.
Page 233 - Development, made at the UN Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro...
Page 29 - ... the surrounding mestizo and white populations had begun moving into black communities. Eventual absorption into the mixed milieu appeared inevitable in the 1980s. Moreover, as blacks moved into the mainstream of society from its peripheries, they perceived the advantages of better education and jobs. Rather than forming organizations to promote their advancement as a group, blacks concentrated on achieving mobility through individual merit and adaptation to the prevailing system. When the Spanish...
Page 29 - In the 1980s, wholly black communities were disappearing, not only because their residents were moving to the cities but also because the surrounding mestizo and white populations had begun moving into black communities. Eventual absorption into the mixed milieu appeared inevitable in the 1980s.
Page 100 - it is the slippage between including Blacks as ordinary citizens and excluding them from the heart of nationhood which characterizes the position of Blacks in the Colombian racial order
Page 3 - This century opens on two sets of contradictory images: The power of the national state sometimes seems more visible and encroaching, and sometimes less effective and less relevant