SOGIP Programa de investigación : Escalas de gobernancia y derechos de los pueblos indígenas

Lenguas, educación y cultura

Jennifer Hays — 2011-04-11T10:21:32Z

General Botswana's general approach to minorities, including the San, is assimilative. Botswana's education and cultural policies are founded in the country's strong anti-apartheid stance during its early decades of independence. Recognition of cultural and linguistic differences is still (...)

Tierra, territorio y recursos

Jennifer Hays — 2011-04-11T10:19:23Z

Access to Resources The most important economic resources for the country of Botswana are diamond mining, cattle ranching, and tourism. All of these affect land rights for the San / Basarwa in Botswana; very few have access to their traditional lands or resources. The majority have been (...)

Derecho y política

Jennifer Hays — 2011-04-11T10:17:23Z

General Botswana has an official policy of non-recognition of ethnic minorities, and takes the position that all Batswana (residents of Botswana) are indigenous to the country. There is no recognition of indigenous status in the national constitution. Signature or Ratification of (...)

Contexto regional y internacional

Jennifer Hays — 2011-04-11T10:15:17Z

Botswana can be considered within two general regions: the African continent as a whole, and also within the specific context of southern Africa. Approaches to ethnicity within Africa in general are shaped by colonial encounters, and within southern Africa the recent apartheid regime of South (...)

Datos

Jennifer Hays — 2011-04-11T10:12:20Z

General Facts Botswana is a land-locked in southern Africa, bordered by South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. 70% of the country, which is about the size of France, is covered by the Kalahari Desert. The Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Okavango Delta are two prominent features of the (...)

Proyecto de investigación

Jennifer Hays — 2011-04-11T10:09:34Z

Self Determination, Education, and Indigenous Rights: A multi-sited action research approach Self-determination is about making informed choices and decisions and creating appropriate structures for the transmission of culture, knowledge and wisdom for the benefit of each of our respective (...)