Governance of Indigenous People in Latin America

In recent decades ethnic resurgence and related conflicts have become endemic world over, raising in turn, a number of issues of governance for policy-makes. Of these, issues relating to indigenous ethnicity and its resurgence have become critical. The books focuses on such issues of indigenous ethnicity and purports to examine in some depth the governance of indigenous people in the region of Latin America where they constitute a significant numerical ethnic minority. The book brings to fore the recent indigenous movements, their objectives and aspirations with special reference to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Also, the analysis attempts a critique of the policy measures and underlines the challenges that indigenous ethnic movements pose to the nation-states of Latin America. Well-researched and extensively documented, the book offers useful and perceptive insights on an array of problems and issues concerning the governance of indigenous people in Latin America.