Indigenous Peoples, Politics and Rights in Contemporary Latin America

In the context of the interdisciplinary education of the Master's programme, the course of Indigenous Peoples, Politics and Rights in Contemporary Latin America aims to provide students with instruments and means necessary to understand the reality of a specific geographic area, as it follows the process of emersion, revindication and recognition of indigenous rights in Latin America through the last decades, while highlighting its historical, political, institutional, economic and socio-cultural dimensions.

Knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course the student will master the instruments that are necessary to understand the process of emersion, revindication and recognition of indigenous rights in Latin America in the last decades. The analysis of case studies, connected to the protection of the property rights on land/territories that were traditionally occupied and on the natural resources, as well as to the protection of the rights be consulted and to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), will provide the students with an opportunity to analyse and understand national dynamics, applied (or disapplied) norms, and the instruments that indigenous communities can use to invoke and enforce their rights.
Applying knowledge and understanding: the knowledge acquired will provide the students with the instrument that are necessary to deal with (and understand) the problems connected to the application and protection of indigenous rights in Latin America, thanks to an historical, political, institutional, economic and socio-cultural perspective.