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Published: 13 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059844-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5984-4
... over one million visitors from around the globe. Antonio Martin Fernando Indigenous protest fascism and the Catholic Church modern Rome ...
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By Gloria Jane Bell
Published: 13 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5984-4
... Antonio Martin Fernando Indigenous protest fascism and the Catholic Church modern Rome ...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374398-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... and indigenous protests to official reassurance that the diseases were "normal" diarrheas and had been brought under control. Then we follow a leading national health reporter as she produces daily newspaper and radio stories on indigenous leadership in the epidemic, only to fall back—even as her reporting grows...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... principal newspaper, who worked closely with regional public health officials, charting the newspaper's shift from a story of a mysterious disease and indigenous protests to official reassurance that the diseases were "normal" diarrheas and had been brought under control. Then we follow a leading national...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-144
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... In August 2011, lowland indigenous organizations set off on a new march to protest the government’s plan to build a highway through the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park ( tipnis ). It was a fraught moment—President Evo Morales had declared the road would go through...
Published: 01 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027478-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2747-8
... the Shackville protests in Cape Town and recent work by indigenous artists and activists in Canada. Boaventura de Sousa Santos Bruno Bosteels Shackville protests Nadia Myre Michèle Taïna Audette ...
Published: 05 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7335-3
.... collective action Venezuela counterpoint ( contapunteo ) contentious actions Chávez This chapter explores the protests of June 2013 and their aftermath. It argues that while the Brazilian protests indeed borrowed the practices and formats of Occupy, 15M, and the Arab Spring, they are difficult...
Published: 08 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027560-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2756-0
... communities coveted literacy and the “alphabet school” as a site of communal self-empowerment in their struggle to communicate their ideas, protests, and demands within Bolivia's dominant political and public spheres. In the 1910s and 1920s, a new generation of Indigenous letrados and schoolteachers began...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-136
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... indigenous and peasant worldviews as it sought to rewrite the terms of Bolivia’s social contract and contract with nature. In August 2011, lowland indigenous organizations set off on a new march to protest the government’s plan to build a highway through the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-120
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... on the marginalized and exploited. Second, in a number of Latin American countries, new indigenous movements began gaining ground. Bolivia was one of the earliest such cases, with its predominantly Aymara indianista and katarista currents. Since the 1990s, such convergences and emphases have contributed toward so...
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By Paul Amar, Editor
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... as the nation’s hub for anthropological scholarship of written, cultural, and treaty records of Indigenous peoples. This chapter centers Indigenous lawyers and activists, alumni of the museum, and their mission to defend Indigenous rights through law and by becoming an anthropologist. The authors provide...
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373353-016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7335-3
... January 11, 2007, a day of violent confrontation in Cochabamba, has joined the calendar of memorable conflicts in Bolivia. Unlike other clashes in which violence was described as violence against Indigenous people, “January 11” represents a more contested moment: both government supporters...
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By Tom Özden-Schilling
Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 17 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027669-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2766-9
... privileges. In early 2020, the first major sweep of arrests at Wet’suwet’en-run checkpoints inspired a national wave of solidarity protests—perhaps the largest Indigenous-led uprisings in Canada since the original War in the Woods. Examining how some retrospective debates over failed consultation protocols...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-146
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... with the protests of many affected indigenous communities. ...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375869-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... This chapter focuses on the protests against the expansion of the Yanacocha gold mine into Cerro Quilish (Mount Quilish). In campaigns against the mining project, Cerro Quilish was an aquifer (a store of life-sustaining water) and an Apu (usually translated from Quechua as “sacred mountain...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-042
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... on, communities were to be legally abolished. In 1880, Secretary of State Ladislao Cabrera explained the theoretical rationale: “To put this immense wealth of [indigenous community lands] in circulation, to deliver them to intelligent and capitalist proprietors, was the spirit that animated the legislature...
Published: 01 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2747-8
... in Cape Town and recent work by indigenous artists and activists in Canada. Boaventura de Sousa Santos Bruno Bosteels Shackville protests Nadia Myre Michèle Taïna Audette ...
Published: 05 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7335-3
... Bolivia decolonization Evo Morales indigenous peoples memorialization January 11 2007 ...
Series: Narrating Native Histories
Published: 11 November 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373759-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7375-9
... Chapter 2 considers Llamojha’s first major action as a rural activist: his work to defend indigenous peasants who labored on the Jhajhamarka (also spelled Ccaccamarca) hacienda in the Peruvian department of Ayacucho. This chapter outlines the colonial history of the hacienda, explaining how...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374947-016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
.... This, then, is in part a celebration of indigenous tonal resources and in part a critique of disciplinary attitudes that remain silent over the erosion of creative potential when populations are forced to speak other people’s musical languages. ethnomusicology colonialism musical violence polyphony Protestant...