Conflicts due to unresolved land claims are a pressing political and social issue throughout Latin America. The aim of this two-day bilingual seminar is to bring together different perspectives on the moral and political legitimacy of land claims in Latin America. We welcome contributions about both indigenous and non-indigenous groups making land claims in Latin America.
\n\nWe invite submissions in Spanish or English that address the issue of land claims in Latin America both from a theoretical and applied perspective. Suggested topics of papers may include:
\n\n\n\n- The normative justification of land claims in Latin America
\n\n- Land claims in Latin America: What type of claims do the different groups make?
\n\n- Land claims in Latin America: Constitutional and legal perspectives
\n\n- Land claims in Latin America: What do current economic policies favor?
\n\n- The value of land in Latin America: as a means or an end?
\n\n- Land in Latin America: Its social and cultural importance for vulnerable populations
\n\n- Control and ownership of natural resources by indigenous communities/local groups
\n\n- Poverty\, development and land tenure in Latin America
\n\n- Individual versus collective (or communal) land rights
\n\n- Social movements and land claims: Mapping diverse ways of resistance
\n\n- &lsquo\;Land-grabbing&rsquo\; by agribusinesses and foreign investors: Tracing new ways of colonization
\n\n\n\nAbstracts should not exceed 500 words. Please send your submissions in PDF\, Word or RTF formats to Alejandra Mancilla\, at woiproject@yahoo.com\, no later than the 15th March 2013. It is also possible to submit a short paper\, which should not exceed 4000 words. The organizers will cover the costs of travel and accommodation in Bogotá\; for those authors whose abstracts/papers are selected for the seminar.
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