Indigenous peoples, commons and the challenge of sustaining life amid capitalist land grabs

Lorenza Arango Vásquez*

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Abstract

The role of Indigenous peoples in the protection of the nature ‘commons’ has gained much traction worldwide. It has been suggested that Indigenous ‘environmental stewardship’ would significantly contribute to addressing the climate crisis and that ‘land tenure security’ is key to this aim. This paper critically explores these assumptions by highlighting the need for closer attention to the lived reality of Indigenous peoples and the state of the commons they inhabit, some of which have been taken over, fully or partly, by big capital, and exhibit a great difficulty to sustain life–as a result of broader capitalist trajectories.

Original languageEnglish
Number of pages28
JournalJournal of Peasant Studies
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 9 Dec 2024

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