Turf wars
Subtitle: territory and citizenship in the contemporary state
By: Bettina Ng'weno.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780804755962
Subjects: Blacks -- Colombia -- Government relations; Blacks -- Colombia -- Claims; Blacks -- Colombia -- Land tenure
Description: People of African descent living in the Colombian Andes had long been struggling, as peasants and workers, for political participation and equal citizenship. When the 1991 Colombian Constitution enabled them to claim territory as ethnic groups, their demands became part of a growing worldwide phenomenon of citizenship claims that are based on territory and expressed through cultural distinction. This book looks at two such claims pursued by Afro-Colombians in the 1990s and investigates how territory serves to connect and disconnect citizen and state in the context of today's changing state authority, legitimacy, and institutions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Autonomy; title: Self-governance; title: The contemporary state; title: Territory; title: Suspect nationals; title: Ancestral lands; title: Tense territories; title: Citizenship; title: Equal citizens; title: Participation; title: Conclusion.