Indigenous identity

By Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Ricardo Verdum, Anthony Bebbington The Amazon basin is home to over 385 indigenous groups, including 71 groups living in voluntary isolation, and the world’s largest intact tropical rainforest.  These two facts are not unrelated. Indeed studies...

By Ana Cecilia Dinerstein In the past two decades, indigenous peoples’ movements have become more visible and stronger in the global struggle for social justice, particularly against new economic policies based on extractivism, land grabbing and the privatisation of ejidos...