Paths of justice. Rarámuri self-government, challenges and realities. Valdivia Ramírez, Fátima del Rocío, D' Madrid editores, Mexico, 2015

Abstract

Thinking about the protection of the rights of indigenous individuals, peoples and communities within the framework of human rights implies reflecting on them as individual and collective rights, and not only on the individual and universal nature of Western human rights theory. Culture, self-determination and territory are some of those collective rights that receive a major emphasis when we speak of indigenous peoples. The guarantee of indigenous rights within the Mexican State implies a discursive cultural recognition of its existence, and recognition as subjects of law, as political agents in the spaces of the State that are being built from their own complexities and contradictions. In other words, for a genuine guarantee of indigenous rights, it is essential to give political connotation to the cultural recognition of peoples.