Apresentação do dossiê: Autonomias indígenas, negras, camponesas: novas ontologias políticas na América Latina

Abstract

Throughout Latin America, indigenous, black and peasant political experiences have been known, in the last four decades, as “autonomies”, from a trend that started in countries like Nicaragua and Mexico, later extended to Bolivia, Ecuador, among others. In the most varied contexts, autonomies have been associated with the search for self-determination, self-government, self-defence and the recognition of sovereignty in territories, over mineral and water resources, etc. At the same time, they are an exceptional environment for the debate on the ontological-political dimensions implied in the claims of these ethnically diverse populations. This dossier proposes to present a brief overview of the many discussions that have been emerging in the continent, related to these environments, which have become true laboratories of alternative ideas and practices.