Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas

Miguel González is an anthropologist and political scientist. He is the author of Pluriethnic Governments: The Confirmation of Autonomous Regions in the Atlantic Coast-Caribbean of Nicaragua and Autonomy to Debate: Policies of Indigenous Recognition and the Plurinational State in Latin America. His research is focused on development issues related to Indigeneity and Indigenous peoples in contemporary Latin America. Ritsuko Funaki is a professor at Chuo University, Japan. She has served as an assistant to the Japan International Cooperation Agency in Argentina, held a JICA assignment in the municipality of El Torno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and served as a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University. Her research relates to Indigenous autonomy, decentralization, and political participation. Araceli Burguete Caly Mayor is professor-researcher at CIESAS-Southeast based in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas. She is the editor of Mexico: Experiences of Indigenous Autonomy and co-editor of Indigenous Justice: Rights of Consultation, Autonomies, and Resistance. She works consistently on themes of autonomy. José Marimán is affiliate professor at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile. He is the author of Autodeterminaciòn: Ideas Políticas Mapuche en el Albor del Sieglo XXI and "Aukan tañi müleam mapun kimüm. Manie ñi pu kinüm" Combates por una Historia Mapuche: La Perspectiva de un Condor. He is an activist in human and political rights in association with Chileans and Mapuches on the Chilean political stage. Pablo Ortiz-T is an Ecuadorian sociologist and political scientist. He is senior professor and researcher at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana UPS—Quinto Campus, visiting professor at the Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana UPB in Medellín, Colombia, and at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain. His work is focused on the collective rights of Indigenous peoples, processes of territorial self-management, and Indigenous self-determination.