RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GEOPOLITICS OF DIVERSITY FOR AND FROM LATIN AMERICA

Abstract

The purpose of the research that supports this reflection is to propose the need to build a geopolitics of diversity based on the recognition of ethnic rights. Such violated rights by hegemonic powers since the time of the Conquest of America under the imposition of colonial models have acted as sources of the process of European modernity, transforming the reality of the original peoples who inhabited the territory called by the Spanish Empire as the New World. The above will be analysed from the decolonial theory, which allows us to carry out a socio-political analysis of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century, showing the power relations that were based on the Latin American continent until the consolidation of the State in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . The methodology proposed is phenomenology-hermeneutic or also known as ontological phenomenology, with the intention of revealing hidden phenomena (tensions) and their meanings between the Indigenous legal-territorial field and the State legal-territorial field.