Doctoral Dissertation Research: Translating Indigenous Rights: A Multi-Level Study of Prior Consultation Law

博士论文研究：翻译土著权利：事先协商法的多层次研究

• 批准号: 2017666
• 负责人: Laura German
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2017666&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Translating; Indigenous

Prior consultation policies,which mandate that indigenous communities affected by a proposed law or project are consulted before the activity begins, have proliferated in recent years across many sectors and locations but can be traced back to international indigenous rights law. This research examines how international indigenous rights laws get strategically transformed or “translated” from the international legal sphere to differing local political contexts. This approach goes beyond considering policy in terms of legal interpretations, implementation barriers, or compliance failures, to examine the continuous processes of transformation it undergoes as a result of the strategies of particular actors. A deeper understanding of what makes policy effective (and what “effective" means to different groups of people) is prudent in an era when the international legal sphere is frequently looked to for solving intractable problems like climate change, poverty, and biodiversity loss, but which relies on national and sub- national implementation into diverse social and ecological contexts.Building on anthropological and legal studies of indigenous rights, this research applies a “policy translation” framework to indigenous rights law, bringing a new theoretical and methodological approach to examine this body of law. Policy analyses, archival research, and ethnographic methods will be used to trace how Peru’s prior consultation law (and the international law from which it was derived) has been translated in writing and in practice, from the international, to the national, to the subnational levels during one year of fieldwork, split between Lima and four field sites in the Peruvian Andes where prior consultation has been implemented in the mining sector. By conducting interviews with a wide array of actors involved in and impacted by this law, analyzing archival records of media, financial, and legal data to elicit the wider context surrounding the creation and implementation of the law, and conducting mapping exercises to spatialize the outcomes of the law in each of the four sites in the Andes, the researchers will examine the strategies and spaces used by various actors (indigenous groups, businesses, NGOs, and government agencies) to shape policy meaning, practice, and outcomes according to their interests. Ultimately, this research will shed light on the ways that different actors leverage their power over the legal apparatus, an issue that has broad relevance to other legal contexts. The proliferation of prior consultation policies in diverse political and ecological contexts across the world and the growing relevance of international laws makes this research timely and compelling.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

事先咨询政策，该政策要求在活动开始之前就咨询了受建议法律或项目影响的个别社区，但近年来已经在许多部门和地点扩散了，但可以追溯到国际土著权利法。这项研究考试是如何从国际法律领域转变或“翻译”到区分地方政治背景的战略性转化或“翻译”。这种方法不仅在法律解释，实施障碍或合规性失败方面考虑了政策，还可以检查其由于特定参与者的策略而进行的转型过程。在一个时代，在国际法律领域经常被人们谨向解决诸如气候变化，贫困和生物多样性损失等艰难的问题的时代，对政策有效的原因（对不同群体的“有效”意味着什么）是谨慎的，对政策有效的更深入的了解是谨慎的，这是对政策有效的更深入的理解，而这是审慎的深入了解权利法，带来了一种新的理论和方法论方法来检查这一法律。政策分析，档案研究和民族志方法将用于追踪秘鲁先前的咨询法（以及其衍生的国际法）如何以书面形式翻译，实际上，从国际，国际，国家到国家，在现场工作的一年中，在秘密和佛罗外咨询中的四个现场现场分裂，已在秘密和咨询中分布。 By conducting interviews with a wide array of actors involved in and impacted by this law, analyzing archival records of media, financial, and legal data to elicit the wider context Surrounding the creation and implementation of the law, and conducting mapping exercises to spatialize the outcomes of the law in each of the four sites in the Andes, the researchers will examine the strategies and spaces used by various actors (indigenous groups, businesses, NGOs, and government机构）根据其利益来塑造政策意义，实践和结果。最终，这项研究将阐明不同的参与者利用其权力在法律机构上的方式，该问题与其他法律背景具有广泛相关的问题。在世界各地潜水的政治和生态环境中，先前的咨询政策的扩散以及国际法的日益增长的相关性使得这项研究及时而引人注目。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评估来评估的审查标准。