ABSTRACT

Indigenous people have effectively employed ethno-territorial belonging as a rationale to claim land. However, as sympathetic scholar-activists, we run the risk of assuming that such rationale necessarily empowers the dispossessed. I show that this is not always the case by examining past and contemporary land disputes in the Guarayos Forest Reserve in northeast Bolivia. I thus argue for the need to situate ethno-territorial claims in specific conjunctures and in full recognition of the exclusion's double edge as observed by Hall, Hirsch and Li (2011). Doing so, in turn, calls for greater attention to class differentiation within competing ethnic groups.

摘要

土著人民有效地利用民族领土归属作为要求土地的理由。然而，作为富有同情心的学者活动家，我们冒着假设这样的理由必然赋予被剥夺者权力的风险。通过研究玻利维亚东北部瓜拉约斯森林保护区过去和当代的土地纠纷，我表明情况并非总是如此。因此，我认为有必要将民族领土主张置于特定的情况下，并充分认识到 Hall、Hirsch 和 Li (2011) 所观察到的排斥的双重优势。反过来，这样做需要更多地关注竞争种族群体中的阶级差异。