ABSTRACT
For the last few decades, indigenous activism has been a major force in Latin American politics. While the impact of indigenous activism on ethnic relations and statehood are evident, it is hard to pin down the intrinsic features of this phenomenon, as it is characterized by profound geographic differences across Latin American countries. In this chapter, the author advocates for tightening of connections linking the effects, since projects of world-making triggered by indigenous activism are necessarily sustained by the articulation of identity claims and citizenship rights. Before advancing further in the examination of indigenous activism, it is important to clarify that this chapter examines debates in the literature and events ranging primarily from the 1980s to the present. However, as the author argued at the beginning of this chapter, the potentials of world-making of indigenous activism cannot fully materialize unless territorial politics is sustained by struggles for the reconfiguration of citizenship rights and discursive re-articulation of indigenous identity.
