Bulletin #9 Legal and Political Critique in Our America

CLACSO Working Group Legal critique and sociopolitical conflicts 
Newsletter Legal critique and politics in Our America 
Year 2 – Issue #9 The law and rights in the defense of territories, forms of collective life and common goods
July-August 2021

Table of Contents

1. Presentation
   
   NOMOS
   
2. The emancipatory use of law versus legal structures of dispossession. The case of the Queen's Pass in Oaxaca
   Aleida Hernández Cervantes
   
3. The imperative of open-pit mining and the resistance of the Me'phaa and Na savi. Interscalar juridification processes in Guerrero, Mexico
   Yacotzin Bravo Espinosa
   
4. Cross-border issues as a common future. Towards co-governance of shared river basins in Central America
   Ainhoa ​​Montoya
   
5. Challenging extractivism. Epistemological and ontological disputes before the courts and regulation from indigenous sovereignties
   Rachel Sieder
   
6. Time frame and COVID-19. A visible face of the policy of indigenous extermination in Brazil of the XXI century
   Ivone Fernandes Morcillo Lixa
   Raquel Fabiana Lopes Sparemberger
   
7. Environmental licensing for Afro-religious people in the City of Aracaju. An analysis of traditional people, the environment, access to justice and religious racism
   Ilzver de Matos Oliveira
   Luiz Ismael Pereira
   
8. Faced with the abyss, the roots. A “rooted defense” against systemic and structural oppressions from the Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Center
   José Ricardo Robles Zamarripa

READINGS

1. Review. Globalization, neoliberalism and the rights of peoples indigenous people in Mexico
   Mylai Burgos Matamoros