Indigenous Rights to the City: Ethnicity and Urban Planning in Bolivia and Ecuador

ISBN-13: 9780367661687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str.

Philipp Horn

Opis

The book explains how medium and large cities of Latin America have attracted many people from the rural world during the last two decades, and how in the frame of such diaspora the indigenous peoples have also settled in the urban peripheries.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: From inhabitants of the forest to the concrete jungle

Part one: Concepts and context

2. The emergence of urban indigeneity and the indigenous right to the city

3. Indigeneity in urban policy and planning practice

4. The making of two indigenous cities

Part two: Experiences from La Paz, Bolivia and Quito, Ecuador

5. Urban indigeneity as lived experience

6. Urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice

7. Claiming indigenous rights to the city

8. Conclusion

O autorze

Philipp Horn is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests centre around urban indigeneity; ethno-racial justice; participatory planning; and inclusive urban development in cities of the global South, with a regional focus on Latin America.