Christopher Loperena
Biographic Data
| ID | 74917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Loperena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Loperena |
| SIGNATURE | LOPERENA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
United in Struggle
The Covid-19 pandemic marks a turning point in our collective history. The virus, in combination with longstanding social and economic cleavages, has produced a health crisis of epic proportions. T
Frontiers of Dispossession, Territories of Freedom
Cultural Expertise? Anthropologist as Witness in Defense of Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Rights
Adjudicating Indigeneity
In 2014, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights heard two cases concerning the alleged complicity of Honduran state institutions in the violation of Garifuna communal property rights. Garifuna, a people of mixed Arawak, Carib, and African descent, are one of nine officially recognized "ethnic groups" in Honduras. Yet the state has repeatedly denied their status as a pueblo originario-a people native to Honduras-thus calling into question the la…
Los retos del peritaje cultural. El antropólogo como perito en la defensa de los derechos indígenas
Settler Violence
Settler Violence? Race and Emergent Frontiers of Progress in Honduras Christopher A. Loperena (bio) The displacement of black and indigenous peoples from sites of economic opportunity in Honduras, and the systematic enclosure of the natural resources within their territories, is intimately tethered to white socio-spatial imaginaries and the politics of frontier making. In this essay, I analyze how elite investors, with support from the state and …
Land Grab
Brondo, Keri V. (2013) Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras, The University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), ix + 240 pp. £46.50 hbk. Land Grab, by Keri Brondo, is an ethnography of Garifuna resistance to neoliberal development policies and diminishing rights to resource management on the North Coast of Honduras. Garifuna are one of nine officially recognised ‘ethnic groups’ in Honduras and as such they are en…
Land Grab
Radicalize Multiculturalism? Garifuna Activism and the Double-Bind of Participation in Postcoup Honduras
En este artículo analizo la resistencia Garífuna ante el golpe de estado contra Manuel Rosales Zelaya. Me baso en entrevistas y conversaciones con activistas y observación participante en las protestas contra el golpe de estado en Tegucigalpa con el fin de explorar el significado y los objetivos de la resistencia cultural Garífuna en el periodo post-golpe. Argumento que la etnopolítica sirve para reforzar y desafiar las representaciones dominante…
A Divided Community
In this article, I draw upon over two years of fieldwork in a Garifuna community in Tela Bay, Honduras, to explore the ethical and political contradictions bound up with activist-oriented ethnographic research. The rise of tourism as a means of national development and a driver of local economic desires has fractured communal politics in Triunfo de la Cruz, particularly around questions pertaining to land tenure and territorial belonging. I analy…
Conservation by racialized dispossession
Conservation by racialized dispossession
A Divided Community
In this article, I draw upon over two years of fieldwork in a Garifuna community in Tela Bay, Honduras, to explore the ethical and political contradictions bound up with activist-oriented ethnographic research. The rise of tourism as a means of national development and a driver of local economic desires has fractured communal politics in Triunfo de la Cruz, particularly around questions pertaining to land tenure and territorial belonging. I analy…
Settler Violence
Settler Violence? Race and Emergent Frontiers of Progress in Honduras Christopher A. Loperena (bio) The displacement of black and indigenous peoples from sites of economic opportunity in Honduras, and the systematic enclosure of the natural resources within their territories, is intimately tethered to white socio-spatial imaginaries and the politics of frontier making. In this essay, I analyze how elite investors, with support from the state and …
Cultural Expertise? Anthropologist as Witness in Defense of Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Rights
Adjudicating Indigeneity
In 2014, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights heard two cases concerning the alleged complicity of Honduran state institutions in the violation of Garifuna communal property rights. Garifuna, a people of mixed Arawak, Carib, and African descent, are one of nine officially recognized "ethnic groups" in Honduras. Yet the state has repeatedly denied their status as a pueblo originario-a people native to Honduras-thus calling into question the la…
Los retos del peritaje cultural. El antropólogo como perito en la defensa de los derechos indígenas
Radicalize Multiculturalism? Garifuna Activism and the Double-Bind of Participation in Postcoup Honduras
En este artículo analizo la resistencia Garífuna ante el golpe de estado contra Manuel Rosales Zelaya. Me baso en entrevistas y conversaciones con activistas y observación participante en las protestas contra el golpe de estado en Tegucigalpa con el fin de explorar el significado y los objetivos de la resistencia cultural Garífuna en el periodo post-golpe. Argumento que la etnopolítica sirve para reforzar y desafiar las representaciones dominante…
Conservation by racialized dispossession
Land Grab
Brondo, Keri V. (2013) Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras, The University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), ix + 240 pp. £46.50 hbk. Land Grab, by Keri Brondo, is an ethnography of Garifuna resistance to neoliberal development policies and diminishing rights to resource management on the North Coast of Honduras. Garifuna are one of nine officially recognised ‘ethnic groups’ in Honduras and as such they are en…
Land Grab
Radicalize Multiculturalism? Garifuna Activism and the Double-Bind of Participation in Postcoup Honduras
En este artículo analizo la resistencia Garífuna ante el golpe de estado contra Manuel Rosales Zelaya. Me baso en entrevistas y conversaciones con activistas y observación participante en las protestas contra el golpe de estado en Tegucigalpa con el fin de explorar el significado y los objetivos de la resistencia cultural Garífuna en el periodo post-golpe. Argumento que la etnopolítica sirve para reforzar y desafiar las representaciones dominante…
A Divided Community
In this article, I draw upon over two years of fieldwork in a Garifuna community in Tela Bay, Honduras, to explore the ethical and political contradictions bound up with activist-oriented ethnographic research. The rise of tourism as a means of national development and a driver of local economic desires has fractured communal politics in Triunfo de la Cruz, particularly around questions pertaining to land tenure and territorial belonging. I analy…
Settler Violence
Settler Violence? Race and Emergent Frontiers of Progress in Honduras Christopher A. Loperena (bio) The displacement of black and indigenous peoples from sites of economic opportunity in Honduras, and the systematic enclosure of the natural resources within their territories, is intimately tethered to white socio-spatial imaginaries and the politics of frontier making. In this essay, I analyze how elite investors, with support from the state and …
Los retos del peritaje cultural. El antropólogo como perito en la defensa de los derechos indígenas
Cultural Expertise? Anthropologist as Witness in Defense of Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Rights
Adjudicating Indigeneity
In 2014, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights heard two cases concerning the alleged complicity of Honduran state institutions in the violation of Garifuna communal property rights. Garifuna, a people of mixed Arawak, Carib, and African descent, are one of nine officially recognized "ethnic groups" in Honduras. Yet the state has repeatedly denied their status as a pueblo originario-a people native to Honduras-thus calling into question the la…
United in Struggle
The Covid-19 pandemic marks a turning point in our collective history. The virus, in combination with longstanding social and economic cleavages, has produced a health crisis of epic proportions. T
Frontiers of Dispossession, Territories of Freedom
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works)