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Accepted Paper:

The Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS), Bolivia: an analysis of indigeneity in natural resource disputes  
Jessica Hope (University of St Andrews)

Paper short abstract:

This paper analyses a dispute over a planned road within the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS), Bolivia. It explores the articulations of indigenous identity being voiced in the struggle and their power in relation to changing development and environmental priorities.

Paper long abstract:

This paper uses a case-study approach, analysing a current dispute over plans to build a highway through the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) in Bolivia. It focuses on the opposition movement challenging the road and the state, using 8 months of recent fieldwork data to analyse articulations of indigenous identity and its changing power in relation to shifting development and environment priorities.

Using theories of indigeneity, conservation and capitalism, it examines interactions between the oppositional movement, the state and development non-government organisations (NGOs) and argues that the conflicting ways that indigenous identity is being (re)positioned in the struggle is changing its discursive and political power. It argues that indigeneity is being (re)constructed within state policy, diminishing the ability of rural Amazonian communities to control the rate and pace of development in their locality.

Panel P07
Development, culture and redistribution of inequality: the formation of new ethnic, political and environmental landscapes in Latin America
  Session 1