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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437794403321

Autore

Stavenhagen Rodolfo

Titolo

Peasants, culture and indigenous peoples : critical issues / / Rodolfo Stavenhagen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

1-283-90878-6

3-642-34153-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs on pioneers in science and practice : texts and protocols, , 2194-3125 ; ; v. 4

Disciplina

338.4791

Soggetti

Peasants

Culture

Indigenous peoples

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Basic Needs, Peasants and the Strategy for Rural Development -- Cultural Rights: a Social Science Perspective -- The Structure of Injustice: Poverty, Marginality, Exclusion and Human Rights -- What Kind of Yarn? From Color Line to Multicolored Hammock: Reflections on Racism and Public Policy -- The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- A Report on the Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Asia -- Report on the Impact of Megaprojects on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Study Regarding the Best Practices to Implement the Recommendations of the Special Rapporteur.

Sommario/riassunto

This last volume in a trilogy published on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, professor emeritus of El Colegio de Mexico, includes eight essays on Peasants, Culture and Indigenous Peoples: Critical Issues; Basic Needs, Peasants and the Strategy for Rural Development (1976); Cultural Rights: a Social Science Perspective (1998); The Structure of Injustice: Poverty, Marginality, Exclusion and Human Rights (2000); What Kind of Yarn? From Color Line to Multicolored Hammock: Reflections on Racism and Public Policy (2001); The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2012); A Report on the Human Rights Situation of Indigenous



Peoples in Asia (2007); Report on the Impact of Megaprojects on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2003); and Study Regarding the Best Practices to Implement the Recommendations of the Special Rapporteur (2007). These texts address human rights issues, especially those that arose when Stavenhagen was servinged as United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples.