Dignity for the Voiceless

Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-292-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 103, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: CEDLA Latin America Studies

Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed during his fieldwork but also enjoyed theoretical debate. A distrust of power led him not only to attempt to understand “people without voice” but to work alongside them so they could discover and find their own voice. Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem Assies’s best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salman, Ton

Puig, Salvador Martí I

Haar, Gemma Van Der

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Geert Banck

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction

Gemma van der Haar, Salvador Martí i Puig, Ton Salman

PART I: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA

Introduction

Geert Banck

Chapter 1. Of Structured Moves and Moving Structures: An Overview of Theoretical Perspectives on Social Movements

Chapter 2. Urban Social Movements, Democratization and Democracy in Brazil

PART II: AGRARIAN ISSUES

Introduction

Cristobal Kay

Chapter 3. The Agrarian Question in Peru: Some Observations on the Roads of Capital

Chapter 4. From Rubber Estate to Simple Commodity Production: Agrarian Struggles in the Northern Bolivian Amazon

PART III: INDIGENOUS (LAND) RIGHTS

Introduction

André Hoekema

Chapter 5. Self-Determination and the “New Partnership”; the Politics of Indigenous Peoples and States

Chapter 6. Indian Justice in the Andes: Re-rooting or Re-routing?

PART IV: ETHNICITY AND CITIZENSHIP

Introduction

Salvador Martí i Puig

Chapter 7. The Limits of State Reform and Multiculturalism in Latin America: Contemporary Illustrations

Chapter 8. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Indigenous Peoples and Autonomies in Latin America

PART V: POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOLIVIA

Introduction

Ton Salman

Chapter 9. David versus Goliath in Cochabamba: Water Rights, Neoliberalism and the Revival of Social Protest in Bolivia

Chapter 10. Neoliberalism and the Re-Emergence of Ethnopolitics in Bolivia

Bibliography Willem Assies

Über Autor(innen)

Salman, Ton
Ton Salman has worked on grassroots organizations, citizenship and democratization processes in Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia and is Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the VU University of Amsterdam.

Haar, Gemma Van Der
Gemma van der Haar is Assistant Professor at the chair group Sociology of Development and Change/Disaster Studies at Wageningen University. She is a development sociologist interested in social practice in conflict and postconflict settings. She has worked extensively on Chiapas (Mexico).

Puig, Salvador Martí I
Salvador Martí i Puig has done research on the Nicaraguan revolution and Central American and Mexican politics and social movements. At present he is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Salamanca and member of CIDOB-Barcelona.

Ton Salman has worked on grassroots organizations, citizenship and democratization processes in Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia and is Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the VU University of Amsterdam.