Multilaterale Entwicklungspolitik und Indigenität im Andenraum Das Programa Indigenista Andino und die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation (1949-1970)

This book is dedicated to the history of the Programa Indigenista Andino (PIA, 1954–1970). As a regional United Nations (UN) pilot project under the direction of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the PIA is a notable case in UN development cooperation during the 1950s and '60s. The project's stated goal was to "integrate" Quechua and Aymara farming communities into the national societies of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. The PIA's history illustrates how the development policy landscape in the Andean region emerged between state indigenista policy and universally conceived international development policy. While PIA politicians and experts wanted to test technical solutions for the so-called "indigenous question," the reality of life for people in the Andean highlands was rapidly changing due to profound political and economic upheavals. Thus, the book provides new insights into the histories of international development policy, inter-American indigenismo, and the ILO.

Martin Breuer