Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America

David Lehmann, Emeritus, University of Cambridge, UK, is a former Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies and Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research and publications span the fields of development, religion, and ethnicity, especially in Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Brazil. He is the author of Democracy and Development in Latin America (1990), Struggle for the Spirit: Religious transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America (1996), and editor, with Humeira Iqtidar, of Fundamentalist and Charismatic Movements (4 volumes, 2011).

• Foreword; John Gledhill .- Introduction; David Lehmann .- 1. Multiculturalism as a juridical weapon: The use and abuse of the concept of ‘pueblo originario’ in agrarian conflicts in Michoacán, Mexico; Luis Vázquez .- 2. Paradoxes of Multiculturalism in Bolivia; Andrew Canessa .- 3. The ethnicisation of agrarian conflicts: an Argentine case; Maité Boullosa-Joly .- 4. Inventing rights of our own: women transcending the opposition between the indigenous and the universal; Manuela Picq .- 5. The demand for recognition and access to citizenship: ethnic labelling and territorial restructuring in Brazil; Véronique Boyer .- 6. The politics of naming; David Lehmann