Carwil Bjork‐jame
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 121653 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carwil Bjork‐jame |
| NOMBRES | Carwil |
| APELLIDO | Bjork‐jame |
| FIRMA | JAME C B |
| AFILIACIONES | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4977-0458 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Tactics of Political Violence in the 2019 Bolivian Crisis
During Bolivia's 2019 political crisis, reactivated modes of political violence occurred within and alongside familiar forms of mass mobilization. In Bolivia's recent history, this period is most comparable to the 2006-2009 partisan conflict over constitutional reform and departmental autonomy known by the Gramscian term empate catastrófico, or catastrophic stalemate. Although there are many similarities between the two periods, both social movem…
When Does Lethal Repression Fail? Unarmed Militancy and Backfire in Bolivia, 1982-2021
Repressive state violence, intended to tamp down collective mobilisation, sometimes inspires greater participation by protesters. When popular and/or elite reactions cause the repressing party to concede, civil resistance scholars define the failure of state repression as 'backfire'. Some have proposed that movements' nonviolent discipline is essential to backfire. This article demonstrates that movements that practise 'unarmed militancy' - force…
We Are MAS 2.0”
Flanked by social movement leaders, Luis Arce Catacora stepped forward to claim victory in Bolivia’s presidential race well past midnight on election day. “We have recovered democracy, and we have
The Sovereign Street
Unarmed Militancy
Moments of intense physical confrontation between protesters and security forces have become iconic parts of political protest. These asymmetrical tactical encounters have been pivotal to successful Latin American revolts against neoliberalism and regime-displacing protest movements. Based on ethnographic engagement and oral history interviews with Bolivian activists in Cochabamba and La Paz, this article characterizes an overlooked tactical stan…
Binding Leaders to the Community
Las organizaciones más grandes de movimientos sociales en Bolivia-incluyendo sus sindicatos obreros, comunidades rurales, y organizaciones barriales- están unidos por una estructura organizativa jerárquica y una ética compensatoria que subordina a los líderes a las bases de las que emergen. Esta cosmovisión separa un mundo perdurable y legítimo de organización comunitaria ("lo orgánico") de un mundo corrompido de partidos políticos, dotado de pol…
Earth Beings
Reviewed by: Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena Carwil Bjork-James Marisol de la Cadena, Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 315 pp. South American indigenous peoples and their relationships with the environment have become increasingly salient to regional politics and anthropological theory. While several states in the region have recently re…
Remapping Bolivia
Hunting Indians
In the mid-twentieth century, renewed colonization of the Llanos region of Colombia brought escalated violence to the closely related Guahibo and Cuiva peoples. This violence was made public by two dramatic episodes that became international scandals: a December 1967 massacre of sixteen Cuivas at La Rubiera Ranch, and a 1970 military crackdown on an uprising by members of a Guahibo agricultural cooperative in Planas. The scandals exposed both par…
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective
2012). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Carwil Bjork-James, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa Maharawal, and Amiel Melnick. Anthropology Now: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 81-88
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective
2012). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Carwil James, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Amiel Melnick. Anthropology Now: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 62-68
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective
Patterns of Organization and Upheaval
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective
2011). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Chris Grove, Carwil James, Malav Kanuga, Martha Lincoln, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Amiel Melnick, Michael Polson, Sophie Statzel. Anthropology Now: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 95-101
Peasants' rights and the UN system
The transnational agrarian social movement Vía Campesina is campaigning to have the United Nations negotiate and implement a Declaration, and eventually an International Convention, on Peasants' Rights. This article analyzes the origins and demands of the campaign and the place of the claimed rights in international law. Peasant organizations hope to follow in the footsteps of indigenous peoples' movements that participated in the negotiations pr…
Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements by Marc Becker
Peasants' rights and the UN system
The transnational agrarian social movement Vía Campesina is campaigning to have the United Nations negotiate and implement a Declaration, and eventually an International Convention, on Peasants' Rights. This article analyzes the origins and demands of the campaign and the place of the claimed rights in international law. Peasant organizations hope to follow in the footsteps of indigenous peoples' movements that participated in the negotiations pr…
Unarmed Militancy
Moments of intense physical confrontation between protesters and security forces have become iconic parts of political protest. These asymmetrical tactical encounters have been pivotal to successful Latin American revolts against neoliberalism and regime-displacing protest movements. Based on ethnographic engagement and oral history interviews with Bolivian activists in Cochabamba and La Paz, this article characterizes an overlooked tactical stan…
Hunting Indians
In the mid-twentieth century, renewed colonization of the Llanos region of Colombia brought escalated violence to the closely related Guahibo and Cuiva peoples. This violence was made public by two dramatic episodes that became international scandals: a December 1967 massacre of sixteen Cuivas at La Rubiera Ranch, and a 1970 military crackdown on an uprising by members of a Guahibo agricultural cooperative in Planas. The scandals exposed both par…
Binding Leaders to the Community
Las organizaciones más grandes de movimientos sociales en Bolivia-incluyendo sus sindicatos obreros, comunidades rurales, y organizaciones barriales- están unidos por una estructura organizativa jerárquica y una ética compensatoria que subordina a los líderes a las bases de las que emergen. Esta cosmovisión separa un mundo perdurable y legítimo de organización comunitaria ("lo orgánico") de un mundo corrompido de partidos políticos, dotado de pol…
Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements by Marc Becker
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective
Patterns of Organization and Upheaval
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective
2011). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Chris Grove, Carwil James, Malav Kanuga, Martha Lincoln, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Amiel Melnick, Michael Polson, Sophie Statzel. Anthropology Now: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 95-101
Peasants' rights and the UN system
The transnational agrarian social movement Vía Campesina is campaigning to have the United Nations negotiate and implement a Declaration, and eventually an International Convention, on Peasants' Rights. This article analyzes the origins and demands of the campaign and the place of the claimed rights in international law. Peasant organizations hope to follow in the footsteps of indigenous peoples' movements that participated in the negotiations pr…
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective
2012). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Carwil Bjork-James, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa Maharawal, and Amiel Melnick. Anthropology Now: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 81-88
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective
2012). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Carwil James, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Amiel Melnick. Anthropology Now: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 62-68
Remapping Bolivia
Hunting Indians
In the mid-twentieth century, renewed colonization of the Llanos region of Colombia brought escalated violence to the closely related Guahibo and Cuiva peoples. This violence was made public by two dramatic episodes that became international scandals: a December 1967 massacre of sixteen Cuivas at La Rubiera Ranch, and a 1970 military crackdown on an uprising by members of a Guahibo agricultural cooperative in Planas. The scandals exposed both par…
Earth Beings
Reviewed by: Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena Carwil Bjork-James Marisol de la Cadena, Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 315 pp. South American indigenous peoples and their relationships with the environment have become increasingly salient to regional politics and anthropological theory. While several states in the region have recently re…
Binding Leaders to the Community
Las organizaciones más grandes de movimientos sociales en Bolivia-incluyendo sus sindicatos obreros, comunidades rurales, y organizaciones barriales- están unidos por una estructura organizativa jerárquica y una ética compensatoria que subordina a los líderes a las bases de las que emergen. Esta cosmovisión separa un mundo perdurable y legítimo de organización comunitaria ("lo orgánico") de un mundo corrompido de partidos políticos, dotado de pol…
The Sovereign Street
Unarmed Militancy
Moments of intense physical confrontation between protesters and security forces have become iconic parts of political protest. These asymmetrical tactical encounters have been pivotal to successful Latin American revolts against neoliberalism and regime-displacing protest movements. Based on ethnographic engagement and oral history interviews with Bolivian activists in Cochabamba and La Paz, this article characterizes an overlooked tactical stan…
We Are MAS 2.0”
Flanked by social movement leaders, Luis Arce Catacora stepped forward to claim victory in Bolivia’s presidential race well past midnight on election day. “We have recovered democracy, and we have
Tactics of Political Violence in the 2019 Bolivian Crisis
During Bolivia's 2019 political crisis, reactivated modes of political violence occurred within and alongside familiar forms of mass mobilization. In Bolivia's recent history, this period is most comparable to the 2006-2009 partisan conflict over constitutional reform and departmental autonomy known by the Gramscian term empate catastrófico, or catastrophic stalemate. Although there are many similarities between the two periods, both social movem…
When Does Lethal Repression Fail? Unarmed Militancy and Backfire in Bolivia, 1982-2021
Repressive state violence, intended to tamp down collective mobilisation, sometimes inspires greater participation by protesters. When popular and/or elite reactions cause the repressing party to concede, civil resistance scholars define the failure of state repression as 'backfire'. Some have proposed that movements' nonviolent discipline is essential to backfire. This article demonstrates that movements that practise 'unarmed militancy' - force…
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