en ligne: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales n° 173, 2008/3, Pacifier et Punir (1), Les crimes de guerre et l’ordre juridique international

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Jérôme Bourdieu et al.   Prologue de la rédaction

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Ron Levi et John Hagan   Penser les « crimes de guerre »

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Kim Lane Scheppele   Le droit de la sécurité internationale Le terrorisme et l'empire sécuritaire de l'après-11 septembre 2001

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Sara Dezalay   Crimes de guerre et politiques impériales L'espace académique américain entre droit et politique

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Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich et John Hagan   La politique de punition et le siège de Sarajevo Vers une application de la théorie du conflit à la perception d'une (in)justice internationale

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Karen Engle   « Aux armes ! » Droits des femmes et intervention humanitaire

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Julien Seroussi   La cause de la compétence universelle Note de recherche sur l'implosion d'une mobilisation internationale

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Lectures critiques

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Joachim J. Savelsberg   L'organisation sociale du déni et de la reconnaissance : atrocités, connaissance et interventions juridiques

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à paraître: Karen Engle, The Elusive Promise of Indigenous

Karen Engle
The Elusive Promise of Indigenous
Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy
Duke University Press
Forthcoming in August 2010



Description

Across the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development. Karen Engle traces the history of these claims, considering the prevalence of particular legal frameworks and their costs and benefits for indigenous groups. Her vivid account highlights the dilemmas that accompany each legal strategy, as well as the persistent elusiveness of economic development for indigenous peoples. Focusing primarily on the Americas, Engle describes how cultural rights emerged over self-determination as the dominant framework for indigenous advocacy in the late twentieth century, bringing unfortunate, if unintended, consequences.

Conceiving of indigenous rights as cultural rights, Engle argues, has largely displaced or deferred many of the economic and political issues that initially motivated much indigenous advocacy. She contends that by asserting static, essentialized notions of indigenous culture, indigenous rights advocates have often made concessions that threaten to exclude many claimants, force others into norms of cultural cohesion, and limit indigenous economic, political, and territorial autonomy.

Engle explores one use of the right to culture outside the context of indigenous rights, through a discussion of a 1993 Colombian law granting collective land title to certain Afro-descendant communities. Following the aspirations for and disappointments in this law, Engle cautions advocates for marginalized communities against learning the wrong lessons from the recent struggles of indigenous peoples at the international level.

Karen Engle is the Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law and the Director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law. She is an editor of After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture.