Angaité's responses to deforestation : political ecology of the livelihood and land use strategies of an indigenous community from the Paraguayan Chaco / Marcos Glauser.

The Gran Chaco, the second largest biome of South America, entered a phase of deep and fast environmental changes a few decades ago. Indigenous peoples are amongst those most affected. This dissertation focuses on the responses of the Angaité of La Patria to altered access, use and management of natural resources inside and outside their colony over the past 20 years (1995-2015). From a third-generation political ecologists perspective, I consider the Angaité's adaptation a transformation of cosmographical practices because the latter contribute to the production of a particular place or territory and a particular understanding of the world. I explore how the Paraguayan state allowed and promoted, by de facto not recognising "La Patria territory", resource use practices that were incompatible with certain Angaité livelihood practices. I claim that, by redefining the "political" and the "social collective", the adaptation of livelihood and land use strategies and the new patronage networks with the state and NGOs impacted the Angaité cosmography, forms of leadership, and networks of sharing--back cover.