Limits to Decolonization – Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in …

Limits to DecolonizationIndigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco\nAuthor(s): Penelope Anthias\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501714351, 978-1501714351\nSynopsis\nPenelope Anthias's Limits to Decolonization addresses one of the most important issues in contemporary indigenous politics: struggles for territory. Based on the experience of thirty-six Guaran communities in the Bolivian Chaco, Anthias reveals how two decades of indigenous mapping and land titling have failed to reverse a historical trajectory of indigenous dispossession in the Bolivian lowlands. Through an ethnographic account of the \""limits\"" the Guaran have encountered over the course of their territorial claimfrom state boundaries to landowner opposition to hydrocarbon developmentAnthias raises critical questions about the role of maps and land titles in indigenous struggles for self-determination.\n\n .