This work offers the reader an in-depth analysis of the changes that have taken place in the past two decades in the social, legal and political reality of the indigenous peoples. To this end, the book analyses - firstly - the emergence of these peoples in the political arenas of the countries in the region, secondly, it presents the debate that has been provoked by the creation and exercising of indigenous peoples’ specific rights, and thirdly and finally, it examines the situation in the countries where this mobilisation has been particularly important, such as Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico and Nicaragua. This volume also includes contributions from renowned analysts from research centres in Europe, the United States and Latin America, the most noteworthy being Xavier Albó, Jan de Vos, Willem Assies and Alison Brysk.

Salvador Martí i Puig is a Permanent Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Salamanca and a member of the Institute of Ibero-American Studies at the same university, as well as of the CIDOB Foundation. He has been a guest lecturer at several educational centres in Europe and Latin America, and has worked as a consultant to the UNDP. His work as a researcher has focused on the processes of political change and on the dynamics of collective action. His priority area of study is Latin America, and particularly the region of Meso-America.

ISBN: 978-84-87072-81-9

544 pp.

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