Governance and Indigenous Peoples: Advances and Challenges in Latin America from an Intercultural Perspective

Synonyms

Indigenous institutionally; Indigenous people’s development strategies

Definition

Intercultural governance is the set of institutions, processes, and conventions in a diverse society, whose rules are redefined considering the incorporation of new actors such as Indigenous peoples, who, as native nations, contribute to defining how power is exercised, how decisions are made, and how the variety of existing interests is responded to.

Section

Latin-American and Caribbean.

Introduction

In increasingly diverse societies, governance has become a response by States to face new and complex problems, especially those associated with coexistence and the incorporation of new actors who demand recognition of interculturality as a guiding principle. Indeed, governance does not occur in a “tabula rassa” (Olsen and Peters 1996) but instead reflects customs, values, and adaptations defined by traditionally homogeneous societies, which today must incorporate new visions, concepts, and...