Indigenous Biocentric Law Against a Legacy of Violence: Chilean Water Regulation, Free Trade with the EU, and Violations of Mapuche and Aymara Rights to Water

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorBhatia, Amar
dc.contributor.authorSimard, Joseph Jonathan Edward
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T21:16:00Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T21:16:00Z
dc.date.copyright2024-03-04
dc.date.issued2024-07-18
dc.date.updated2024-07-18T21:15:59Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractAssertions of Mapuche and Aymara law in defence of waters are hampered by a legacy of state violence, and continued appropriation of Indigenous worldviews under commodified conceptions of nature. I interrogate and analyze the connection between Chile’s water market regime, natural resource extraction, water scarcity, and free trade and foreign investment. Chile’s Water Code facilitates water-intensive agribusiness, mineral extraction, and salmon aquaculture as part of export-oriented economy. At the same time, free trade agreements signed with EU countries knowingly encourage overextraction of water and natural resources. I argue in favour of grassroots movements toward land restitution and jurisdiction as solution. I aim to show international human rights litigation and the concept of virtual water as legal means to hold Chile and major EU importing states responsible for environmental harm, and violation of Mapuche and Aymara peoples’ right to water including ancestral and cultural uses.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42115
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectEcology
dc.subjectEnvironmental law
dc.subjectInternational law
dc.subject.keywordsChile
dc.subject.keywordsWater regulation
dc.subject.keywordsRights
dc.subject.keywordsHuman right to water
dc.subject.keywordsMapuche
dc.subject.keywordsAymara
dc.subject.keywordsFree trade
dc.subject.keywordsForeign investment
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous peoples
dc.subject.keywordsAmericas
dc.subject.keywordsLatin America
dc.subject.keywordsPinochet
dc.subject.keywordsConstitution
dc.subject.keywordsJustice
dc.subject.keywordsEcology
dc.subject.keywordsPlace
dc.subject.keywordsInternational waw
dc.subject.keywordsInternational human rights
dc.subject.keywordsMining
dc.subject.keywordsAgribusiness
dc.subject.keywordsAquaculture
dc.subject.keywordsFisheries
dc.subject.keywordsWater market
dc.subject.keywordsWater rights
dc.titleIndigenous Biocentric Law Against a Legacy of Violence: Chilean Water Regulation, Free Trade with the EU, and Violations of Mapuche and Aymara Rights to Water
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Simard_Joseph_J_2024_Masters.pdf
Size:
1.08 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.87 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
YorkU_ETDlicense.txt
Size:
3.39 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download

Collections

Law

All items in the YorkSpace institutional repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved except where explicitly noted.