Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes.

Lorenza B. Fontana, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. xix + 242 As Lorenza B. Fontana rightly observes, much of the research on recognition politics in Latin America focuses on the struggles of Indigenous social movements for inclusion, and on the vertical power struggles between Indigenous peoples and ruling elites. In fact, Fontana shows that Indigenous actors often deliberately engage in the politics of exclusion in order to block the expansion of recognition to peasant sectors. Third, Fontana shifts the focus away from the struggles between marginalised actors and the state to the horizontal conflicts between Indigenous and campesino communities. [Extracted from the article]