2016
Cairn
Damien Davy et al., « Le droit foncier chez les populations amérindiennes de Guyane française : entre acceptation et conflits », Histoire de la justice, ID : 10670/1.8e37e1...
Since the creation of collective use rights in 1957, the territory of French Guiana has been caught up in claims between the local communities anxious to reclaim part of the land to ensure their own development and the Amerindian populations and Bushinengues seeking to gain recognition of their legitimacy on the land they have been occupying for several centuries. The zones of collective use rights serve to enhance economic activities but also traditional forms of know-how and seek to boost biological diversity by enabling the pursuit of all kinds of activity necessary for the subsistence of such populations whose members have become unavoidable players in local political life. Another consequence is the survival of customs.