G L Ribeiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 14342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G L Ribeiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | G L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ribeiro |
| SIGNATURE | RIBEIRO G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de Brasília |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0753-960X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 84 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 375 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 84 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Thinking through the micro-politics of disclosure/exposure while researching race and gender
This multi-voice essay emerges from a collective, multidisciplinary workshop on Researching Race and Gender , where participants reflected on the micro-politics of disclosure and exposure while researching and writing about race, racism and gender. Drawing on diverse disciplinary backgrounds and field locations, our collaborative reflections explore how researchers navigate the vulnerabilities that come with the demand for transparency in contemp…
Amor tem cor? Conjugalidades, alteridades e hierarquias raciais em Cabo Verde
Nas últimas décadas, Cabo Verde vem passando por um processo de transformação das suas paisagens com o recebimento de um expressivo fluxo de estrangeiros, especialmente europeus e africanos, que aportam no país em busca de auferir renda a partir do boom turístico que vive o país. Essas alterações são vistas e sentidas não apenas nas paisagens, como também nas relações conjugais entre cabo-verdianas(os) e estrangeiras(os). Tendo esse contexto como…
Hybrid Identity and Critical Potential of Latin American Knowledge
I. Wang Youran: What are the distinctive features of knowledge production in Latin America, particularly in the humanities and social sciences?Gustavo Lins Ribeiro: Latin America is a large region
Chapter 1 The Movement of People in Anthropology
Anthropology, Development, and Beyond
Postimperialism and Decolonizing Knowledge in Latin America and Elsewhere
To open new disciplinary imaginings, we must reinvigorate the relationship between utopian and anthropological thought. This is already underway in efforts to decolonize knowledge. Though such efforts have different emphases, they are located within a field of ideological and utopian struggles that must be understood in the context of imperialism‐colonialism, of subalternized subject positions, and of the armed and cognitive struggles that imperi…
Ambientalismo y Desarrollo Sustentable
Response to Agier, Bueno and Ullberg
It is truly a privilege to receive comments from Michel Agier, Carmen Bueno and Susann Ullberg, colleagues whom I admire and who have been interlocutors in my own trajectory in different ways. I thank Anuário Antropológico for this opportunity to engage with them. I have tried to respond to their sophisticated observations as far as I could, but I am unsure whether I have succeeded. In any event, I express my gratitude to my three colleagues for …
Antropologías hoy
Em um contexto de incertezas e transformações no sistema capitalista mundial, o artigo examina os desafios enfrentados pela antropologia e por outros cientistas sociais. Questões como a ascensão da China, as mudanças nas relações interétnicas, o ressurgimento de racismos e a revisão do conceito de humano no Antropoceno são abordadas. O autor argumenta que a antropologia enfrenta dificuldades como cortes orçamentários, perda de relevância pública …
Scales, levels of agency and condensation
My objective in this essay is not to analyse or criticize the diverse theoretical positions that make up the ample and complex field of debates on scale. Instead, in what follows, I first seek to contribute to mapping some of the main issues involved in the notion of scale, before turning to explore megaprojects as one of the most productive scenarios for us to conceptualise different scales. While acknowledging the importance of theorising scale…
Criticando la decolonialidad y su crítica
The practice of criticism is one of the main ways of refining the debates in the social sciences. In thissense, David Lehmann's text is welcome. Nevertheless, I am not totally in agreement with various aspects of hiscriticism. I underscore, in particular, his negation of the historically objective character of racism and of itsconsequences and his lack of consideration for the complexity of the articulations within and between them thatdrive mode…
From decolonizing knowledge to postimperialism
To open new disciplinary imaginings, we must reinvigorate the relationship between utopian and anthropological thought. This is already underway in efforts to decolonize knowledge. Though such efforts have different emphases, they are located within a field of ideological and utopian struggles that must be understood in the context of imperialism-colonialism, of subalternized subject positions, and of the armed and cognitive struggles that imperi…
El capital de la esperanza
Gustavo Lins Riberio conjuga y tensiona la teoría con el trabajo de campo para desentrañar los significados que atribuyen los trabajadores a la construcción de Brasilia. Ello le permitirá reconstruir una memoria donde caben las penurias, los enojos, las broncas, las injusticias laborales, las solidaridades, las amistades, la familia, las lealtades, los sabores de las comidas, la música, la organización, el sindicato y los conflictos, en un todo d…
La tensión global/local en la historia de la antropología
En los principios de la antropología como disciplina en el siglo XIX, el evolucionismo y el difusionismo proporcionaron visiones o perspectivas 'globales' a los antropólogos, quienes siempre han trabajado con nociones cosmopolitas supuestamente universales, tales como humanidad y cultura. Así, muchos se han dedicado a explicar el mundo en su conjunto, y la manera en la que los seres humanos se han desarrollado en distintos momentos históricos. En…
World Anthropologies
The world anthropologies project aims at pluralizing the existing visions of anthropology at a juncture in which hegemonic, North Atlantic–centric discourses about difference prevail. The connection between anthropology and world politics applies to all anthropologies, often in contrasting ways, and it applies with particular poignancy to hegemonic anthropologies. The sizable presence of indigenous peoples, strong nation-building projects, and pe…
Politiques anthropologiques transnationales
La politique transnationale anthropologique a une longue histoire et un grand nombre de participants situés dans différents pays. Cette entrée offre un aperçu de ce champ social, politique, culturel, linguistique et interactionnel complexe à travers la construction de réseaux transnationaux et de plusieurs initiatives menées par les anthropologues à l’échelle mondiale
Wcaa
Le World Council of Anthropological Assciations (WCAA), en français, Conseil mondial des associations d’anthropologues, est un réseau d’organisations nationales, régionales et internationales. Son objectif est de rendre visible la pluralité de l’anthropologie mondiale contemporaine. Né à l’initiative d’anthropologues latino-américains, le WCAA veut contribuer à intégrer et diffuser les « autres anthropologies », celles produites en dehors de l’Am…
Relevance, probative value, and explanatory considerations
In my short contribution to this issue, I focus on Allen and Pardo proposal to redefine key evidentiary concepts in explanatory terms, with special attention to ‘relevancy’ and ‘probative value’. I also join forces with Allen and Pardo in replying to critics to explanatory approaches to evidence law
The global/local tension in the history of anthropology
In the early days of anthropology as a discipline in the nineteenth century, evolutionism and diffusionism supplied anthropologists with ‘global’ visions. Anthropologists have always been involved with all-encompassing cosmopolitan notions such as humankind and culture. Many have thus endeavoured to explain the world as a whole, and how humans have developed in different historical moments. In the 1980s and 1990s, when the new label ‘globalizatio…
O Preço da Palavra
Estou interessado em entender como os empreendedores e inovadores da internet se tornaram capitalistas poderosos. A mercantilização das palavras, o mercado virtual global, a economia da isca e as economias do link, do clique e do eu gosto são formas de produzir lucros, cruciais para entender o rápido crescimento de algumas das principais empresas da atualidade. Também argumento que o googleismo é para o capitalismo contemporâneo o que foram o for…
Cuba
Impactos y dinámicas del capitalismo electrónico-informático
El precio de la palabra
Me interesa comprender cómo los empresarios e innovadores de internet se han convertido en poderosos capitalistas. La mercantilización de las palabras, el mercado virtual global, la economía de la carnada y las economías del enlace, del clic y del me gusta son modos de producir ganancias, cruciales para entender el rápido crecimiento de algunas de las principales empresas del presente. También argumento que el googleísmo es para el capitalismo co…
World anthropologies
From world anthropologies' perspective, in this article we explore the diversity of anthropologies being practiced around the world in the early twenty-first century and the ways in which the pluralizing potential of globalization might enable anthropologists worldwide to benefit from this diversity. Our critical standpoint on the monotony and incompleteness of the current international anthropological landscape, as it has come to be structured b…
Giro global a la derecha y la relevancia de la antropología
A decrease in the importance of anthropologists' participation in public debates can be traced to a number of factors, some inherent to the discipline, others not. Triviality, high specialization levels and neglecting issues of broad public interest are problems that must be debated. Additionally, the current resurgence of racist and intolerant discourses points to the possible opening of a 'post-multicultural' era in which anthropological knowle…
World Anthropologies
In this article, anthropology is seen as a Western cosmopolitics that consolidated itself as a formal academic discipline in the 20th century within a growing Western university system that expanded throughout the world. Like other cosmopolitics, anthropology reflects the historical dynamics of the world system, especially those related to the changing roles 'alterity' may play in international and national scenarios. Some of the most fundamental…
Poder, redes e ideologia no campo do desenvolvimento
Este artigo examina o desenvolvimento como um campo de poder, composto por múltiplas redes e instituições. Introduz o conceito de "consorciação" para elucidar as articulações entre os diversos atores envolvidos nesse campo. O desenvolvimento é abordado como ideologia e utopia, um discurso permeado por categorias culturais ocidentais e intrinsecamente ligado à expansão econômica capitalista. A discussão sobre os "dramas desenvolvimentistas" identi…
Ambientalismo e desenvolvimento sustentado, nova ideologia/utopia do desenvolvimento
Este artigo busca interpretações alternativas adequadas para a compreensão de problemas contemporâneos, tais como o ambientalismo. A noção de desenvolvimento, uma das idéias básicas da cultura moderna europeia ocidental, tem se mostrado tão elástica que se tornou vazia. Este trabalho procura analisar as mudanças da noção de desenvolvimento que se fizeram sob o influxo das transformações econômicas, sociais e políticas da contemporaneidade
World Anthropologies
To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical. Imperial cosmopolitics reproduces the hegemony of the Anglo-American core in the world system of anthropological production. Liberal cosmopolitics is a step ahead but naturalizes the West's prominent place in the global production of knowledge. Radical cosmopoli…
Non-hegemonic globalizations
Discussions on globalization tend to focus on processes commanded by powerful agents in a top-down perspective. In this article, I explore alter-native political and economic grassroots processes and agents as forms of non-hegemonic globalization. I analyze other political globalizations by considering the anti-globalization movement, and the alter-globalization initiatives represented by the World Social Forums. My arguments on economic globaliz…
Cuánto más grande mejor? Proyectos de gran escala
A globalização popular e o sistema mundial não hegemônico
Existe uma globalização econômica não-hegemônica formada por mercados populares e fluxos de comércio animados, em grande medida, por gente do povo e não por representantes das elites. Essas atividades são consideradas ilegais, "contrabando", e as mercadorias, produtos piratas. Tais redes comerciais são ilegítimas do ponto de vista dos poderosos, que as combatem em nome da legalidade. Este artigo discute o que é legal/ilegal, lícito/ ilícito, lanç…
Why (post)colonialism and (de)coloniality are not enough
Subject position is a most important element in the politics of knowledge. Postcolonialism and the Latin American approach ‘decolonialidad del poder’ have made great contributions to the construction of critical theories which are sensitive to many of the quandaries of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. But, although they cannot be reduced to locations and settings, like other formulations, postcolonialism and decoloniality expr…
Anthropologies du monde
L'anthropologie est une cosmopolitique occidentale qui s'est consolidée en tant que discipline académique formelle durant le XXe siècle au sein d'un système universitaire occidental croissant, en pleine expansion dans le monde entier. Comme d'autres cosmopolitiques, l'anthropologie reflète les dynamiques historiques du système-monde, en particulier celles qui sont liées aux rôles changeants que l'« altérité » peut jouer dans les scénarios interna…
Antropologias mundiais
Em uma época de globalização exacerbada, os antropólogos não têm discutido consistentemente a natureza corrente de sua prática e das transformações que ela atravessa em escala global. Este artigo considera a antropologia uma cosmopolítica que se consolidou como disciplina acadêmica formal no século XX, internamente a um sistema universitário ocidental em crescimento e em expansão. Insere-se no campo de uma antropologia crítica da antropologia, qu…
From decolonizing knowledge to postimperialism
To open new disciplinary imaginings, we must reinvigorate the relationship between utopian and anthropological thought. This is already underway in efforts to decolonize knowledge. Though such efforts have different emphases, they are located within a field of ideological and utopian struggles that must be understood in the context of imperialism-colonialism, of subalternized subject positions, and of the armed and cognitive struggles that imperi…
IRBs are the tip of the iceberg
A Different Global Scenario in Anthropology
The global/local tension in the history of anthropology
In the early days of anthropology as a discipline in the nineteenth century, evolutionism and diffusionism supplied anthropologists with ‘global’ visions. Anthropologists have always been involved with all-encompassing cosmopolitan notions such as humankind and culture. Many have thus endeavoured to explain the world as a whole, and how humans have developed in different historical moments. In the 1980s and 1990s, when the new label ‘globalizatio…
World anthropologies
From world anthropologies' perspective, in this article we explore the diversity of anthropologies being practiced around the world in the early twenty-first century and the ways in which the pluralizing potential of globalization might enable anthropologists worldwide to benefit from this diversity. Our critical standpoint on the monotony and incompleteness of the current international anthropological landscape, as it has come to be structured b…
Poder, redes e ideología en el campo del desarrollo
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Giro global a la derecha y la relevancia de la antropología
A decrease in the importance of anthropologists' participation in public debates can be traced to a number of factors, some inherent to the discipline, others not. Triviality, high specialization levels and neglecting issues of broad public interest are problems that must be debated. Additionally, the current resurgence of racist and intolerant discourses points to the possible opening of a 'post-multicultural' era in which anthropological knowle…
Brazilian Anthropology Away from Home
Antropologia e poder
Este ensaio examina a trajetória intelectual de Eric R. Wolf (1923-1999) no cenário da antropologia americana da segunda metade do século xx. Expoente de uma linhagem de antropólogos da esquerda americana, Wolf se propôs o desafio de desvendar as interseções entre cultura, poder e economia política. Combinando perspectivas históricas e comparativas com um profundo humanismo, realizou pesquisas pioneiras em Porto Rico, México e Europa que em muito…
Security for whom
The most important political and ethical issues in North American anthropology today concern anthropologists' relationships with the "security and intelligence communities." The call for anthropological participation in warfare has never been so intense, yet recruitment of anthropologists is not new for hegemonic anthropologies. Their relationships with state power have a long history of contradictory political and professional engagements. After…
O mestiço no armário e o Triângulo Negro no Atlântico
especial sobre seus efeitos na antropologia e nas ideologias sobre interetnicidade brasileiras. 1 O primeiro e mais visível dos efeitos da discussão sobre cotas refere-se à ausência de consenso sobre esse assunto entre os antropólogos brasileiros.São várias as posições.Tentarei caracterizar apenas os dois campos mais evidentes, ainda que correndo o evidente risco de simplificá-los.Ambos coincidem em que há que combater o racismo no Brasil e têm a…
Practicing Anthropology in Brazil
Brazilian anthropologists like to think of ourselves as political actors that play a critical role vis-à-vis the State and society in general. This approach reflects the most frequent way Brazilian anthropologists view themselves and their place in Brazilian life and represents the political loci that anthropology has had in the last four decades in Brazil. This "native's point-of-view" means that engaging in politics is the way "applied anthropo…
El precio de la palabra
Me interesa comprender cómo los empresarios e innovadores de internet se han convertido en poderosos capitalistas. La mercantilización de las palabras, el mercado virtual global, la economía de la carnada y las economías del enlace, del clic y del me gusta son modos de producir ganancias, cruciales para entender el rápido crecimiento de algunas de las principales empresas del presente. También argumento que el googleísmo es para el capitalismo co…
What's in a copy
I will answer the question 'What's in a copy?' by considering three sets of related issues: the importance of copies in academia; in cultural life; and in the economic world. In academia the current capability of making copies is challenging pedagogical practices and the trust of its members, plagiarism being the most immediate problem. The notion of authorship is also undergoing changes provoked by a proliferation of authors and new possibilitie…
Neoliberalism and Higher Education in Brazil
Public higher education has been strangled in Brazil by personnel policies, fragmentation through privatisation and competition with a growing private sector. Central to the productivist turn in Brazil is the annual 'CAPES report' which ranks departments and determines their funding. The Forum of Executive Officers of Graduate Programs in Anthropology was created, years ago, to discuss problems regarding anthropology's teaching and research. Its …
Aspectos contemporâneos da questão indígena
Sem resumo
Cuánto más grande mejor? Proyectos de gran escala
Ambientalismo e desenvolvimento sustentado, nova ideologia/utopia do desenvolvimento
Este artigo busca interpretações alternativas adequadas para a compreensão de problemas contemporâneos, tais como o ambientalismo. A noção de desenvolvimento, uma das idéias básicas da cultura moderna europeia ocidental, tem se mostrado tão elástica que se tornou vazia. Este trabalho procura analisar as mudanças da noção de desenvolvimento que se fizeram sob o influxo das transformações econômicas, sociais e políticas da contemporaneidade
Acampamento de grande projeto
A partir da Revolução Industrial, grandes projetos, como a construção de canais, ferrovias, cidades e hidrelétricas, possuem uma história intimamente relacionada com a expansão do capitalismo. Seja por causa das poderosas articulações de interesses públicos e privados por eles realizadas, seja pela gigantesca mobilização de capital etrabalhadores que provocam, ou ainda pelo estabelecimento de novos sistemas regionais explicitamente vinculados à e…
Transnational Capitalism and Hydropolitics in Argentina
What does a multi-billion-dollar dam mean to the majority of local people living in precarious social and conditions? In this study of a large-scale international infrastructure project, Ribeiro found one answer: the prevailing model of development must change. He demonstrates why and how development, in the context of the Yacyreta High Dam in Argentina, has not been able to bring about well-being on a sustainable basis for most people affected b…
Transnational Virtual Community? Exploring Implications for Culture, Power and Language
Bodies and Culture in the Cyberage
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Macunaima
Introduction
Macunaíma
The analysis of a well–established symbol of Brazilian national identity, Macunaíma, allows me to discuss the impossibility of defining clear–cut identities in modern situations that reflect changes brought by the expansion of the world system and the resulting complex articulation of ethnic segments with different cultural backgrounds. The search for authenticity and essence is here understood as an inevitable simplification of a highly complex …
Introduction
Lo que hace al Brasil, Brazil. Rituales identitarios en San Francisco
En este artículo se discute la cuestión de la identidad brasileña en las comunidades de inmigrantes asentadas en San Francisco (Estados Unidos). Para el análisis se realizaron dos meses de trabajo de campo, donde se participó en eventos de la comunidad, se llevaron a cabo entrevistas y se recopilo material de diversos medios de comunicación. La preocupación principal del autor es la emergencia de esta identidad y sus manifestaciones en la reinven…
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Latin American Anthropology
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Global Colleagues
Antropologia e poder
Este ensaio examina a trajetória intelectual de Eric R. Wolf (1923-1999) no cenário da antropologia americana da segunda metade do século xx. Expoente de uma linhagem de antropólogos da esquerda americana, Wolf se propôs o desafio de desvendar as interseções entre cultura, poder e economia política. Combinando perspectivas históricas e comparativas com um profundo humanismo, realizou pesquisas pioneiras em Porto Rico, México e Europa que em muito…
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