PUBlic Professor Series

Daily from Thu, Oct 23, 2014 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

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Join U of L anthropology professor Dr. Patrick Wilson as he explores

Indigenous Territories and the Rights of Nature in Amazonian Ecuador.

October 23, 2014 | 7 – 9 p.m.
U of L Dr. Foster James Penny Building
324 5 Street S, Lethbridge

This event is free. Everyone is welcome, and there is no need to RSVP.

Appetizers (LA Chefs) and a host bar will be available.

This talk examines the 2008 Constitutional reforms in Ecuador that, among other changes, inscribed new rights of nature and extended rights for indigenous peoples. These two sets of new rights converge around the creation of Indigenous Territorial Circumcriptions (CTIs), a new form of territorial rights for indigenous peoples that allow them to pursue a degree of autonomous governance in alignment with indigenous principles of development. Some hail CTIs as a new path to indigenous empowerment and sustainable development of the Amazon rainforest, but at the same time, the Ecuadorian government has violated the very rights of nature it promoted through pursuing the rapid expansion of the mining sector in recent year. This calls into question if and how the CTIs may serve competing purposes and lead to contradictory outcomes for indigenous inhabitants by facilitating, rather than curbing, extractive development in the Amazon.

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Talk Dates & Topics
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