Noragric Thursday Seminar February 23
Evy JørgensenKristina Tiedje on LAND REFORMS AND INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN MEXICO
Time: February 23 at 12:15 - 13:30
Venue: Thor Larsen Attic, Tivoli Building
LAND REFORMS AND INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN MEXICO
KRISTINA TIEDJE, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
This talk examines the limitations of Mexican agrarian policies for
agricultural transformation and nationalism, exploring indigenous
responses to the reforms in the context of the indigenous rights
negotiations of the late 1990s. Mexico’s land redistribution
programme began with the Agrarian Reform to assist in post-
revolutionary nation-building and appease rural unrest. Landless
labourers were able to claim rights to land for agricultural
production on communally held lands. With Mexico’s opening up to a
global economy, land restitution is no longer possible. Recent land
reforms and the government programme PROCEDE promote the distribution
of individual titling of ejidos. For indigenous peoples, PROCEDE
portends neoliberal restructuring: it paves the way for land sale,
and potentially for the division of their communities through the
reduction or potential elimination of ejidos, which they view as
ethnic spaces. I analyze a case of indigenous organizing arguing that
terminating restitution is counter-productive to nation-building at a
time when Mexico, has declared multiculturalism the new brand of
nationalism.
Updated: 21.02.06
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