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Item Settler colonialism, knowledge articulation, and the politics of development in the TIPNIS indigenous territory and national park in Amazonian Bolivia(2015-12) Beveridge, James Michael; Speed, Shannon, 1964-; TallBear, KimberlyThis thesis examines how the dispute over the Bolivian government’s plan to construct a highway through the TIPNIS indigenous territory and national park in Amazonian Bolivia crystallizes the divergent visions and politics at play in realizing development projects in the TIPNIS. While progressive indigenous and environmental rights were inscribed in the 2009 Bolivian constitution, I argue that the government’s plan to impose the TIPNIS highway is a settler colonial project to dispossess the TIPNIS communities of their lands. This is facilitated by a national government—civilian colonist complicity that undermines the TIPNIS sovereignty and brings the TIPNIS territory under increasing governance and regulation under a post-frontier governance regime. I furthermore employ a framework I call knowledge articulation to examine the struggles of different actors to resist and/or implement varying development visions, which sometimes overlap and at other times compete with each other, in the TIPNIS. All of these projects demonstrate that the Bolivian decolonial path is fundamentally an amalgam: articulated knowledges, hybrid economies, and development outcomes that are resisted, contested, and negotiated configurations of various actors’ uneven authority, expertise and power.Item The forest for the trees(2018-05-03) Squires, Scott Anthony; Alves, Rosental C.; Patel, RajIn the Southern Mexican State of Chiapas, plans to implement an environmental policy known as REDD+ could provide sustainable development opportunities to indigenous and forest dwelling communities by compensating them for preventing deforestation. At the same time, REDD+ (which stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation through conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries) hopes to provide a market-based solution to combat global climate change. But detractors of REDD+, including indigenous groups like the Zapatistas argue that the policy is in conflict with indigenous peoples’ rights of self determination and pulls communities into capitalist social relations. In a world that increasingly needs solutions to combat global climate change, is REDD+ a saving grace, or is it doomed to failure?