Environmentalist organizations promote co-management arrangements as a means of protecting forests and moving away from predatory forms of Indigenous-settler interactions. In Peru, the state and Indigenous Peoples co-manage territories under three regimes: Native Communities, Communal Reserves, and Reserves for Isolated Indigenous Peoples. Through the case of the Purús-Manu Conservation Corridor, we show how in co-management arrangements Indigenous Peoples play dual roles as resource managers (and makers) and as resources themselves, and how in this process indigeneity emerges as a resource. As a result, Indigenous Peoples find that paradoxically, co-management schemes reproduce many of the power asymmetries of previous interventions.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2374734Altmetric score:
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Publication year
2024
Authors
Rolando, G.; Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.
Language
English
Keywords
indigenous people, protected areas, natural resource management, conservation, land tenure
Geographic
Peru
