Autonomy is a polisemic concept, it doesn´t say much by itself until it gets into a cultural and political contexts. I´m elaborating a state of art about territorial indigenous autonomy, emphasising the rol of traditional knowledge and how it is shaped by the interactions of indigenous and local organizations with enviromental institutions in charge of accomplish the purposes of the Convention on Biological Diversity. I also would like to know which are the discussions around indigenous autonomy in the global environmental governance arena.
If you want to share some opinion, documents or articles about these topics I'd appreciate it.
Please add your answers in english, french or spanish.
Thanks
Dear Pablo:
There are some interesting ideas on territory and language in the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights (Barcelona, 1996), which has influenced legislation in some countries. Here's a link where you can download PDF versions of the book version in several languages:
http://www.linguistic-declaration.org/index-gb.htm
This is not exactly on the same subject, but may help if you are interest.
Article Authoritarian trends and their continuity in Sri Lankan poli...
I agree. Autonomy is always defined in a concrete and local manner (or it turns into "epistemic violence", such as much of decentralization policy does). For the moment, I can point you to a text of mine (http://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/fileadmin/dokumentenbibliothek/Indiana/Indiana_30/IND_30_2013_283-299_Altmann.pdf) that discusses autonomy (and other ideas) in the discourse of the indigenous movement in Ecuador. Concerning another case, Chiapas, I just saw a really new text minutes ago, here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096262981730001X
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