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15 - Self-Determination

from Part II - Concretion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2022

Ángel R. Oquendo
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University of Connecticut
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During the continent’s colonization, the monarchical mandate directed specifical-ly for the colonies seemingly strove to safeguard the natives and to shield them from exploitation. It purported to conserve their customs, traditions, or institutions, pro-vided that they accepted the empire’s sovereignty and religion. Apparently, this well-intentioned disposition mostly came to naught. The imperial emissaries inexorably devastated countless cultures and civilizations.

Ostensibly, the winds of independence brought with them a dissimilar, liberal approach to aboriginal affairs. They carried it to constitutional, statutory, and regu-latory standards. It amounted to granting the victimized collectivity’s members civil and political liberty equivalent to that of their fellow citizens. Reflecting France’s rev-olutionary ideology, the fresh regimen welcomed each one of them individually into the republic yet none of their respective subgroups.

Worldwide, a clamor against the underlying proceduralist paradigm seems to have resounded relatively recently. Partly, it may have cropped up internally as a re-sult of the politicized and militarized mobilization of native communities along Mexi-can, Ecuadorian, or Bolivian latitudes and beyond. However, transnational factors, like the advent of a third generation of collective entitlements for minorities in the context of the human-rights revolution, may have played a role too.

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  • Self-Determination
  • Ángel R. Oquendo, University of Connecticut
  • Book: Through Thin and Thick
  • Online publication: 18 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108776288.016
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  • Ángel R. Oquendo, University of Connecticut
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  • Self-Determination
  • Ángel R. Oquendo, University of Connecticut
  • Book: Through Thin and Thick
  • Online publication: 18 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108776288.016
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