Law, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Environmental Activism in Latin America

This course explores the contradictions of Indigenous people's views on land and the environment and the existing legal frameworks addressing Indigenous peoples land rights across Latin America, focusing on how these contradictions are often shaped by global economic interests. The course highlights the ways in which Indigenous groups resist and adapt to environmental challenges exacerbated by stated sponsored extractive industries usually operating within the framework of legal apparatuses to which indigenous peoples respond to employing a range of strategies from legal battles to grassroots activism and quotidian practices.