Peasants, Culture and Indigenous Peoples Critical Issues /

• Main Author: Stavenhagen, Rodolfo. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, 4
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Science > History.; Environmental law.; Environment.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; History of Science.; Human Rights.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34153-3

This last volume in a trilogy published on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, professor emeritus of El Colegio de Mexico, includes eight essays on Peasants, Culture and Indigenous Peoples: Critical Issues; Basic Needs, Peasants and the Strategy for Rural Development (1976); Cu...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Needs, Peasants and the Strategy for Rural Development
• Cultural Rights: a Social Science Perspective
• The Structure of Injustice: Poverty, Marginality, Exclusion and Human Rights
• What Kind of Yarn? From Color Line to Multicolored Hammock: Reflections on Racism and Public Policy
• The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• A Report on the Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Asia
• Report on the Impact of Megaprojects on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Study Regarding the Best Practices to Implement the Recommendations of the Special Rapporteur.