List of Contributors

• Miguel González

  Miguel González is an Assistant Professor in the International Development Studies program at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is also a researcher associated with the Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research and with the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University. His current research involves the comparative study of multiethnic and indigenous governance regimes in the Americas. His most recent publications include “Neo-structuralist bargain and authoritarianism in Nicaragua,” Globalizations (2022), and “Peasant and indigenous autonomy before and after the pink tide in Latin America, Journal of Agrarian Change (2022), in co-authorship with Víctor Bretón, Blanca Rubio, and Leandro Vergara-Camus. migon@yorku.ca

• Ritsuko Funaki

  Ritsuko Funaki has a Ph.D. in Political Science, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University (2010) and is currently a Professor at Chuo University (Japan). During the period of her master’s and doctoral studies, she served as an assistant to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (or JICA) in Argentina (2002-2003) and also held a JICA assignment in the municipality of El Torno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (2004-2006). She was a Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University (2019-2021). Her research relates to indigenous autonomy, decentralization, and political participation. Some of her relevant publications are: “Choice of indigenous institutions for indigenous autonomy: mixed research methods on the municipalities of the Aymara nation of Bolivia”, AJIA KEIZAI 54 (2), Institute of Developing Economies, Foreign Trade Organization of Japan (IDE-JETRO) 2013 ; “Referendum ‘from above’ in Bolivia: Determinants of the regional autonomy referendum in 2006” in Political participation in the “post-neoliberal era” of Latin America, IDE-JETRO, “A study of electoral behavior in the Bolivian mixed electoral system” in the Annuals of the Japan Political Science Association 2016 (2), published in Japanese. funaki@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp

• Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor

  Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor is a Professor-researcher at CIESAS-Southeast based in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. In her work, the theme of autonomy has been constant. Among her publications, the following stand out: Autonomies and self-government in indigenous territories of diverse America an edited volume she co-coordinated along with Miguel González, José Marimán, Pablo Ortiz-T., and Ritsuko Funaki, and published by Abya Yala, Ecuador, 2021; Parity and political violence based on gender in indigenous municipalities of Chiapas (2015-2018): an approach with an intercultural perspective, published by the Institute of Elections and Citizen Participation (IEPC) of Chiapas, 2020; and with José Rubén Orantes she co-cordinated Indigenous justice. Right of consultation, autonomies and resistance, UNAM, 2018. araceli_burguete@yahoo.com.mx

• José Marimán

  José holds degrees in Ph.D. in Political Science (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain -2008), an MA in Political Science (University of Colorado at Denver -2000), history and geography (Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile -1993), and he is also trained as elementary teacher (Universidad Católica de Chile -1989). He has taught college classes as an affiliate professor for a little more than a decade at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago-Chile (2013-present), Universidad Diego Portales Santiago-Chile (2014-2015), Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago-Chile (2013), Universidad Arcis Santiago-Chile (2012), Metropolitan State College of Denver-US (2006-2010), University of Colorado at Denver-US (2006-2007) and Arapahoe Community College at Denver-US (1999-2000). ppmariman@hotmail.com

• Pablo Ortiz-T.

  Professor Ortiz-T. is an Ecuadorian sociologist who holds a master’s in Political Science and a PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies. He is currently an associate professor and university researcher in Graduate Programs of Social Sciences in Ecuador and Colombia. He also coordinates the State and Development Research Group (GIEDE) and is Director of the Management Career for Local Development of the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana de Quito, Ecuador. As a researcher, he works on collective rights of indigenous peoples; processes of territorial self-management and indigenous self-determination in the Andes and Amazon; and participatory treatment of socio-environmental conflicts, particularly in ecologically fragile and culturally vulnerable environments. He has published several books and articles on these topics. He collaborates with the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and is an associate researcher of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences CLACSO. mushukster@gmail.com

• Dalee Sambo Dorough

  Dalee Sambo Dorough is the former International Chairperson, Inuit Circumpolar Council. She received a PhD in Law from University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law (2002) and a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University (1991). Presently, a Senior Scholar and Special Advisor on Arctic Indigenous Peoples, University of Alaska Anchorage, where she was an Assistant Professor of International Relations. Dr. Dorough was Chairperson (2014) and an Expert Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2010-2016); and is now co-Chair of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Her recent publications include a chapter co-authored with Federico Lenzerini entitled “The World Heritage Convention and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” in the Oxford Commentaries in International Law (2023) and a commentary entitled “Perspective on Convention 169, its significance to Inuit and some troubling developments,” in The International Journal of Human Rights Volume 24, (2020). dsdorough@alaska.edu

• María Fernanda Herrera Acuña

  María Fernanda Herrera Acuña holds a BA in Philosophy, master’s degrees in both Philosophy and Education, and a doctoral degree in Sociology from the University Alberto Hurtado in Chile. She currently teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Social Work and Psychology of the Universidad Bernardo O›Higgins, and at the School of Health and the General Training Center of the Universidad Mayor. María Fernanda has published in several journals in Chile and Europe and is a researcher at the University Alberto Hurtado. She participated in the translation from German to Spanish language of Ser y Tiempo (M. Heidegger, Trotta, 2003) by Jorge E. Rivera. María Fernanda was also a grant holder by CONICYT between 2016 and 2020. fdaherrera@hotmail.com

• John Cameron

  John Cameron is Professor of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University (Toronto) and a MA in Latin American Studies from Simon Fraser University (Vancouver). His research focuses on three broad areas: 1) struggles over Indigenous self-governance and municipal power in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru; 2) representations of the global South in the global North; 4) public policy advocacy by non-governmental organizations in Canada; and 4) the ethics of global justice. His publications include Struggles for Local Democracy in the Andes (2009), “Development Made Sexy” (2009), “Soundtracks of Poverty and Development: Music, Emotions and Representations of the Global South” (2021), “‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?’ Bringing Love into International Development Research” (2022), “Indigenous Autonomy and the Contradictions of Plurinationalism in Bolivia” (2014) and other articles on Indigenous autonomy. John.cameron@dal.ca

• Wilfredo Plata

  Wilfredo Plata is a researcher at Fundación TIERRA. He has a degree in Sociology from the Universidad Mayor de San Simón de Cochabamba (UMSS), Bolivia and a Master’s degree in Sustainable Rural Development in Post Graduate Studies in Development Sciences from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (CIDES - UMSA) in La Paz. He has been a member of the team of young researchers of the Strategic Research Program in Bolivia (PIEB). His research topics include rural development, agrarian transformations, territorial management and indigenous autonomies. In co-authorship he has published the following books: Visiones de desarrollo en comunidades aymaras: Tradición y modernidad en tiempos de globalización (2003), Los barones del Oriente. El poder en Santa Cruz ayer y hoy (2008), La larga marcha. The process of indigenous autonomies in Bolivia (2015) and several co-authored articles on indigenous rights to autonomy. w.plata@ftierra.org

• Verónica Azpiroz Cleñan

  Verónica Azpiroz Cleñan, has a degree in Political Science and International Relations (Universidad Católica de La Plata- 1998), a Master’s in Intercultural Health from the Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de Costa Caribe Nicaragüense (URACCAN) in 2013, and is currently a Doctoral candidate in Colective Health (UnLa-Universidad Nacional de Lanús). She is a mapuche activist. She began her professional career working in the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation for four years. Afterward, she worked with several national ministries: Health, Education, and Social Development (2003-2012). She has advised several municipal governments in the Greater Buenos Aires area in socio-environmental health and with indigenous peoples (2008-2014). She was a delegate for the Graduate Council of the Universidad Indígena Intercultural with the Fondo Indígena para America Latina (FILAC-2013). She is a consultant for PAHO and several international organizations that work with indigenous peoples. She is a founding member of the organization Tejido de Profesionales Indígenas en Argentina. Her rural Mapuche community is located in Los Toldos, Province of Buenos Aires, where she currently resides. She is the mother of Kajfünam. zomonewen@gmail.com

• Consuelo Sánchez

  Consuelo Sánchez is a professor-researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH-ENAH). She has a doctorate in Latin American Studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a degree in anthropology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH). She has published more than sixty papers on various topics of her expertise. Among these works are: La conformación étnico-nacional en Nicaragua (INAH, 1994), which won the “Fray Bernardino de Zahagún” prize, awarded by INAH in 1991; Los pueblos indígenas. Del indigenismo a la autonomía (published by Siglo XXI Editores, 1999); México diverso. El debate por la autonomía (Siglo XXI Editores, 2002); Ciudad de pueblos. La macrocomunidad de Milpa Alta en la Ciudad de México (Secretaría de Cultura del Distrito  Federal, 2006), which obtained the “Premio de Ensayo de la Ciudad de México, 2006”, awarded by the Secretaría de Cultura del Distrito Federal; and recently, Construir comunidad. El Estado Plurinacional en América Latina (Siglo XXI Editores, 2019). She was a Constituent Deputy of the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City, from which the first Constitution of Mexico City emanated (2017). She was an advisor to the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) during the San Andrés Dialogue on Indigenous Rights and Culture, which resulted in the San Andrés Accords. She was a member (as an “expert academic”) of the Comité de Mecanismo de la Consulta para la Ley de Pueblos y Barrios Originarios y Comunidades Indígenas Residentes del Distrito Federal, within the Legislative Process of the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District (2014-2015). She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, the Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Jurídica and the Colegio de Etnología y Antropología Social. Founding member of Tequio, Grupo para la Defensa del Patrimonio Histórico, Cultural y Natural. konsuelomx@yahoo.com.mx

• Bernal Damián Castillo

  Bernal Damián Castillo is a researcher – professor of anthropology and history at the University of Panama. He has a Master’s in Social Anthropology from the University of Costa Rica and a Master’s in Latin American History from the University of Panama. He has been visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His research topics include: social and cultural anthropology; oral history; indigenous autonomy; indigenous political participation; bilingual intercultural education and indigenous medicine. His latest publication is entitled “The contributions of the Siggwimar in strengthening the Gunadule and Panamanian identity” (Revista Karakol, 2022). He is the author of various publications on Guna medicine and health, the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of Panama, and the rights of the Indigenous Peoples. He has been an international consultant with CIESAS (Mexico); the Inter-American Institute for Human Development (IIDH), Costa Rica; the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and with UNESCO. His most recent research project is on “Access to information for indigenous peoples in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic”, UNESCO, Costa Rica, 2021 and “Ethnographic research on Guna health and community transfer de Gardi Sugdub de la isla a tierra firme, Comarca de Gunayala”, Inter-American Development Bank, 2020. Bernal is also a research member of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Guna People, of the Center for Environmental and Human Development, and is currently the Director of the Office of Indigenous Peoples of the University of Panama (OPINUP). bernalcastillod@yahoo.es

• Dolores Figueroa Romero

  Dolores Figueroa Romero is a researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City and visiting scholar at the Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). Dr. Figueroa’s academic expertise focuses  on conceptualizing structural, social and extreme violence against indigenous women in  rural areas and critically dialoguing with the anti-racist feminist advocacy work in Mexico.  During the last two years, she was part of an initiative aimed at creating networks between social researchers, technicians and indigenous women’s organizations, such as the National Coordination of Indigenous Women of Mexico (CONAMI) to strengthen their community initiative called “Community Emergency of Violence” to build a database to document  various types of violence that impact indigenous women and their communities in various  regions of Mexico. Dr. Figueroa has published numerous articles in refereed academic journals and chapters in  edited volumes on violence against indigenous women in Guerrero, such as:  “Alertas de género  y mujeres indígenas: interpelando las políticas públicas desde los contextos comunitarios en  Guerrero, México,” in the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies;  (2019); “Políticas de Feminicidio en México: Perspectivas interseccionales de mujeres indígenas para reconsiderar su definición teórica-legal y las metodología de recolección de datos” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies (2019); and “Los caminos de la paridad, violencia política y la participación de mujeres indígenas en gobiernos locales en Guerrero” in Estado y pueblos indígenas en México. La disputa por la justicia y los derechos (2017). figueroa.lola@gmail.com

• Laura Hernández Pérez

  Laura Hernández Pérez is a Nahua indigenous woman, daughter of a migrant mother and father who came to live in the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico. She has a degree in Social Work from the National School of Social Work, UNAM. She is a militant of the National Coordinator of Indigenous Women CONAMI Mexico, organization of which she is the coordinator of the Children and Youth Commission (2019-2022). Hernández is also part of the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas ECMIA where she serves as the focal point of the Mexico Region. She has worked in Nahua communities in the state of Puebla, Otomi communities in the state of Queretaro and in Mexico City. She has experience in community work with children, youth and indigenous women in the areas of sexual health, reproductive health, violence prevention, gender equity and human rights. She has collaborated in the elaboration of manuals related to gender equity, sexual and reproductive rights and violence prevention materials for indigenous girls, boys, young people and teachers. She co-coordinated the Seminar “Young Indigenous Women as Social and Study Subject” (2017, 2019 and 2019) in collaboration with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities of UNAM. laurahdzperez2@gmail.com

• Magalí Vienca Copa-Pabón

  Has a Law degree (UMSS, 2008) and a Master’s degree in Human Rights (UASLP, 2017). She currently works as a professor of Law at the Salesian University and the Franz Tamayo University in La Paz-Bolivia. Among her most recent publications are: Challenges and potentialities of autonomy and indigenous territorial management within the framework of development (co-authored with Amy Kennemore and Elizabeth López, La Paz: Unitas, 2018); and “Constructing justice from indigenous justice: Interlegal experiences from Inquisivi-Bolivia” (La Paz, IPDRS, 2019). viancacopa2020@gmail.com

• Amy Kennemore

  Has PhD in Anthropology (UCSD, 2020) and a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies (UNCC, 2009). Her main areas of research are legal pluralism, decolonization, and Indigenous justice. She has conducted nearly five years of ethnographic research in Bolivia to explore rights as a tool for critique and political action. Among her recent publications are: Challenges and potentialities of autonomy and indigenous territorial management within the framework of development (co-authored with Magalí Vienca Copa-Pabón and Elizabeth López, La Paz: Unitas, 2018); “Constructing justice from indigenous justice: Interlegal experiences from Inquisivi-Bolivia” (La Paz, IPDRS, 2019). Her recent publication, “Collaborative Ethnographic Methods: Dismantling the ‘Anthropological Broom Closet’? (co-authored with Nancy Postero, LACES 2020). Akennem1@gmail.com

• Elizabeth López-Canelas

  Has a degree in Anthropology (UTO, 2008) and a Master’s degree in Environmental Management and Development (FLACSO, 2010). She is an activist in defense of the social and environmental rights of indigenous peoples and has served as a researcher for the non-governmental organization Terra Justa on extractive corporations in South America. Among her most recent publications are: Women guards of Cerro Rico de Potosí: A reading from the feminization of work (CIEG, UNAM México 2018); and Challenges and potentialities of autonomy and indigenous territorial management within the framework of development “(co-authored with Amy M. Kenemore and Magalí Vienca Copa-Pabón, La Paz: Unitas, 2018). elylopezcanelas@gmail.com

• Elsy Curihuinca N.

  Elsy Curihuinca is a Mapuche lawyer, candidate for a PhD in Law at the Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. She holds a Master’s degree in International Human Rights Law and a diploma in recognition and legal protection of the rights of indigenous children. She currently resides in Chile and is a consultant for the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA). She is a professional with an interdisciplinary background and has extensive experience in the coordination of research projects, especially in the collection and analysis of ethnographic information. She has worked as legal advisor to indigenous entities and national and international organizations, such as the Institute of Indigenous and Intercultural Studies of the Universidad de la Frontera; the United Nations Development Program; the National Council for Children, General Secretariat of the Presidency of Chile; and the Ibero-American Center for the Rights of the Child. In addition, she has taught postgraduate courses in various Chilean universities in the areas of interculturalism and the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Elsy has several publications highlighting the topics of self-determination, Indigenous jurisdiction, the Inter-American Human Rights System and the right to free, prior and informed consent. Until February 2020, she was the specialist lawyer of the Rapporteurship on Indigenous Peoples of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington D.C. elsycurihuinca@gmail.com

• Rodrigo Lillo V.

  Rodrigo Lillo is a Chilean lawyer with a Master’s degree in Criminology and Criminal System from the Central University of Chile, and has a diploma in Human Rights from the University of Talca, Chile. He currently works in the Studies Department of the Chilean Criminal Defense Office, where he participates in the design and implementation of specialized defense models for indigenous and migrant persons, and in the coordination of the Prison Defense Program. As a researcher, in the last three years he participated in the research project “The effectiveness of constitutional guarantees in the prison environment and the impact of the Criminal Procedure Reform” of the Central University, and in the Fondecyt Regular Project N°1170505 “Justice and interculturality in the southern macro-region of Chile: A study of the transformations of the legal field and the Chilean legal culture in the face of the emergence of the right to cultural identity” of the Catholic University of Temuco, Universidad de la Frontera, Universidad Austral de Chile. He has published articles on human rights in the field of criminal justice, prison and Indigenous Peoples, topics on which he has taught in postgraduate and masters courses in anthropology, social work and law. As a litigator, he has defended indigenous leaders and people criminally persecuted by the Chilean state. rodrigolillovera@gmail.com

• Ana Cecilia Arteaga Böhrt

  Ana Cecilia Artega is a Research Professor at the Institute of Social Research of the Autonomous University of Baja California. She has the distinction of the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico and Master in Anthropology from the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores CIESAS-CDMX. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Development from the Postgraduate Program in Development Sciences of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and Bachelor in Psychology from the Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo”. In 2019 she received the Fray Bernardino de Sahagún Award for the best PhD thesis in Social Anthropology and Ethnology, granted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History, and in 2015 she received the Casa Chata Award for the Best Master’s Thesis in Social Anthropology. arteaga.ana@uabc.edu.mx

• Pere Morell i Torra

  Pere Morell i Torra holds a degree in Political Science from Pompeu Fabra University and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Barcelona. Between 2012 and 2018 he conducted research on the Guarani autonomy process of Charagua (Bolivia). His thesis obtained the extraordinary doctoral award. His topics of interest and research include: anthropology and political ethnography; ethnicity and indigenous movements; autonomy and self-determination processes; Latin American and Bolivian Studies. Between 2019 and 2021 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Girona, where he coordinated a research project which compared distinct experiences of indigenous self-government across the world. He is currently a scientific collaborator at the Higher School of Social Work in Geneva (HETS-Geneva), in the framework of the Swiss National Science Foundation funded project “Queer and indigenous (dis)encounters: exploring multiple gender and sexual indigenous identities in Plurinational Bolivia (2022-2025)”. p.morelltorra@gmail.com

• Mariana Mora

  Mariana Mora is a Researcher-Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social in Mexico City. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin and a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford University. Her research interests include: legal anthropology; gender and decolonial feminisms; processes of racialization and violence; social movements, decoloniality and the formation of the state. She is author of the book, Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities (2017) and co-coordinator of the book, Luchas Muy Otras: Zapatismo y Autonomía en Comunidades Indígenas de Chiapas (2011). She is the author of several publications on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, decolonization politics, and Zapatismo. Her most recent research project is on state violence, racialization, criminalization and the critical use of law in the Montaña region of Guerrero. Dr. Mora is a member of the Nacional System of Researchers of Mexico, Level I. marmorab@gmail.com

• Shapiom Noningo Sesen

  Shapiom Noningo Sesen is a member of the Wampis nation, he currently holds the position of Technical Secretary of the Wampis Territorial  Autonomous Government. From a very young age he he embarked on the defense of the territorial, social, cultural, educational, and economic rights of Amazonian Indigenous peoples, holding leadership positions from the community level to the national organization AIDESEP. Along the way, he has been an active promoter of human rights and manager of productive partner projects for Amazonian Indigenous peoples, as well as a defender of human and socio-territorial rights. Currently, he is actively engaged in promoting the strengthening and consolidation of the autonomy of the Wampis nation, through positive, creative and permanent relationships with the state sectors and the diverse levels of civil society. Likewise, from a leadership position, he has actively participated in international events, including the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. shapiom@gmail.com

• Frederica Barclay Rey de Castro

  Frederica Barclay is Litentiate in Anthropology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Ph.D. in History from the University of Barcelona. She has been a teacher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, the Universidad Nacional de San Marcos and at the Ecuador Seat of the Facultad Latino Americana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO). Her research and publications focus on the historical, social and economic processes of the Amazon region and the Indigenous territories, and on the collective health situation of Indigenous peoples. Since 2015, she has worked at the Center for Public Policies and Human Rights - Peru Equidad, which she currently chairs. barclayfster@gmail.com

• Viviane Weitzner

  Research Fellow with McGill University’s Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA), and Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E); Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, McGill University; and currently Visiting Professor, Arthur Kroeger College, Carleton University. Viviane is also a policy advisor (consultant), Forest Peoples Programme (United Kingdom/Netherlands); and principal researcher and founder, Collective Matters. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (CIESAS-CDMX), Mexico; and a Masters in Natural Resource Management (U. Manitoba). For over twenty years, Viviane has been accompanying Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Peoples in the Americas from the Amazon to the Arctic, supporting their territorial defense strategies in the context of extractivism. Viviane specializes in activist research and ethnography, with specific interests in law and self-government, self-determination, and the theory and praxis of legal pluralities. viviane.weitzner@mcgill.edu; viviane@vivianeweitzner.com.

• Orlando Aragón Andrade

  Orlando Aragón Andrade is a Professor and Researcher at the National Autonomous

  University of Mexico (in Morelia) where he is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Legal Anthropology and the State. His most recent publications include: “La emergencia del cuarto nivel de gobierno y la lucha por el autogobierno indígena en Michoacán, México. El caso de Pichátaro” (Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2020); “Intercultural translation and ecology of legal knowledge in the Cherán, Mexico experience. Elements for a new critical and militant practice of law” (Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 2020) and El derecho en insurrección. Hacia una antropología jurídica militante desde la experiencia de Cherán, México (UNAM, 2019). Along his academic work, he is also a legal advisor and accompanies several autonomy and self-government processes in Mexico, as part of the Emancipations Collective, of which he is a founding member.” orlandoarande@yahoo.com.mx

• Roberta Rice

  Roberta Rice is Associate Professor of Indigenous Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. She also teaches in the International Indigenous Studies program. She is the author of The New Politics of Protest: Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era (University of Arizona Press, 2012) and the co-editor of Protest and Democracy (University of Calgary Press, 2019) and Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (Routledge, 2016). Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, International Indigenous Policy Journal, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, Latin American Research Review, Comparative Political Studies, and Party Politics. She is currently working on a research project on Indigenous activism and extractive industry in Bolivia, Ecuador, and the Philippines that is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. roberta.rice@ucalgary.ca