Susan Helen Ellison
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 200398 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Helen Ellison |
| NOMBRES | Susan Helen |
| APELLIDO | Ellison |
| FIRMA | ELLISON S H |
| AFILIACIONES | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4039-5903 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Money Lightens
Introduction: Money Lightens: Global Regimes of Racialized Class Mobility and Local Visions of the Good Life. An article from journal Anthropologica (Money Lightens?: Global Regimes of Racialized Class Mobility and Local Visions of the Good Life), on Érudit
L'argent blanchit
Introduction : L’argent blanchit : régimes mondiaux de mobilité des classes racialisées et représentations locales d’une bonne vie. An article from journal Anthropologica (Money Lightens?: Global Regimes of Racialized Class Mobility and Local Visions of the Good Life), on Érudit
We Move Up Levels Together
Indigenous Bolivians, especially women, are climbing the ranks of global multilevel marketing (MLM) companies like Herbalife, Omnilife, and Hinode, seeking to join Bolivia's purportedly rising Indigenous middle class. Through MLMs, Indigenous direct sales distributors pursue a dignified life materialized in better homes, smart dressing, international travel, and the respect they receive at recruitment events. In their recruitment and sales pitche…
After Servitude
Reviewed by: After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia by Mareike Winchell Susan Helen Ellison Winchell, Mareike. After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022. 352pp. A mid global Land Back movements and Indigenous assertions of sovereignty in the face of settler colonialism, Mareike Winchell’s After Servitude examines the ongoing struggle to ac…
Of cebras and citizens
Urban planners and foreign donors have long agonized over how politics, movement, and transportation infrastructure collide in the conjoined cities of El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia. As displaced tin and silver miners migrated to El Alto in droves during the 1980s and 1990s, they banked on that transportation sector to remake their lives, investing their severance packages in the lumbering "Micro" buses and minibuses that now choke both cities' stre…
Ethnography in Uncertain Times
Ethnographic fieldwork in contexts of war and massive political change has revealed the ways violence produces acute feelings of uncertainty in the lives of our interlocutors. Other research has interrogated modes of techno-scientific expertise deployed to manage uncertain futures. This article, by contrast, argues that violence itself may serve as a technique of uncertainty management, as states, citizens, and spouses alike enact 'mano dura' or …
Painted by Default
Across El Alto, Bolivia, a particular kind of graffiti stands out on the walls of household compounds: startling letters proclaiming deudor moroso (defaulting debtor). These public accusations of insolvency join other expressions of households in crisis, disrupting any imagined public/private boundary between city streets and homes that are charged moral, material, and social configurations. As I show, defaulting debtor graffiti spatializes loan …
Indigeneity in Anthropology
Anthropologists interested in the lived experiences and politics of indigenous peoples have turned their analyses inward, interrogating how the discipline itself has influenced settler–colonial governance projects, popular conceptualizations of indigeneity, and indigenous claims to sovereignty and recognition. This review pivots around three major thematics driving twenty‐first‐century scholarship of indigeneity in anthropology. The first entails…
Corrective Capacities
Foreign aid programmes have long targeted Bolivia for ‘capacity building’ at the level of institutional democratic channels and the state legal system. By contrast, this article examines a shift in donor priorities from reforming public institutions to workshops targeting interpersonal and social communication through capacitación or skill-set building aimed at changing individual behaviour and values. I argue that the conversatorio – or model di…
Owners of the Sidewalk
Reviewed by: Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City by Daniel M. Goldstein Susan Ellison Daniel M. Goldstein, Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 352 pp. Massive street markets such as Cochabamba, Bolivia's Cancha1 sit at the crossroads of significant socio-economic transformations that have occurred in cities throughout the "Majority World"2 in recen…
You have to comply with paper
Globally, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) advocates celebrate informality as a means to improve access to justice for poor people and to unburden courts, emphasizing the spoken dimensions of conflict resolution rather than the written product. Yet residents of El Alto, Bolivia, are preoccupied with the graphic artefacts produced by ADR programmes: conciliation accords. This article argues that Alteños pursue conciliation accords because of t…
Replicate, Facilitate, Disseminate
In the wake of a massive 2003 uprising in El Alto, Bolivia, U.S. democracy assistance programs targeted the city, promising to address Alteños’ frustration with democratic institutions and to teach deliberative democratic skills. In this article I examine the position of civic education “replicators.” I use this term to describe people from the city of El Alto—many of them young adults—who were trained by U.S. democracy assistance programs to pro…
Along the Bolivian Highway
You have to comply with paper
Globally, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) advocates celebrate informality as a means to improve access to justice for poor people and to unburden courts, emphasizing the spoken dimensions of conflict resolution rather than the written product. Yet residents of El Alto, Bolivia, are preoccupied with the graphic artefacts produced by ADR programmes: conciliation accords. This article argues that Alteños pursue conciliation accords because of t…
Ethnography in Uncertain Times
Ethnographic fieldwork in contexts of war and massive political change has revealed the ways violence produces acute feelings of uncertainty in the lives of our interlocutors. Other research has interrogated modes of techno-scientific expertise deployed to manage uncertain futures. This article, by contrast, argues that violence itself may serve as a technique of uncertainty management, as states, citizens, and spouses alike enact 'mano dura' or …
Painted by Default
Across El Alto, Bolivia, a particular kind of graffiti stands out on the walls of household compounds: startling letters proclaiming deudor moroso (defaulting debtor). These public accusations of insolvency join other expressions of households in crisis, disrupting any imagined public/private boundary between city streets and homes that are charged moral, material, and social configurations. As I show, defaulting debtor graffiti spatializes loan …
Indigeneity in Anthropology
Anthropologists interested in the lived experiences and politics of indigenous peoples have turned their analyses inward, interrogating how the discipline itself has influenced settler–colonial governance projects, popular conceptualizations of indigeneity, and indigenous claims to sovereignty and recognition. This review pivots around three major thematics driving twenty‐first‐century scholarship of indigeneity in anthropology. The first entails…
Replicate, Facilitate, Disseminate
In the wake of a massive 2003 uprising in El Alto, Bolivia, U.S. democracy assistance programs targeted the city, promising to address Alteños’ frustration with democratic institutions and to teach deliberative democratic skills. In this article I examine the position of civic education “replicators.” I use this term to describe people from the city of El Alto—many of them young adults—who were trained by U.S. democracy assistance programs to pro…
Replicate, Facilitate, Disseminate
In the wake of a massive 2003 uprising in El Alto, Bolivia, U.S. democracy assistance programs targeted the city, promising to address Alteños’ frustration with democratic institutions and to teach deliberative democratic skills. In this article I examine the position of civic education “replicators.” I use this term to describe people from the city of El Alto—many of them young adults—who were trained by U.S. democracy assistance programs to pro…
Corrective Capacities
Foreign aid programmes have long targeted Bolivia for ‘capacity building’ at the level of institutional democratic channels and the state legal system. By contrast, this article examines a shift in donor priorities from reforming public institutions to workshops targeting interpersonal and social communication through capacitación or skill-set building aimed at changing individual behaviour and values. I argue that the conversatorio – or model di…
Owners of the Sidewalk
Reviewed by: Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City by Daniel M. Goldstein Susan Ellison Daniel M. Goldstein, Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 352 pp. Massive street markets such as Cochabamba, Bolivia's Cancha1 sit at the crossroads of significant socio-economic transformations that have occurred in cities throughout the "Majority World"2 in recen…
You have to comply with paper
Globally, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) advocates celebrate informality as a means to improve access to justice for poor people and to unburden courts, emphasizing the spoken dimensions of conflict resolution rather than the written product. Yet residents of El Alto, Bolivia, are preoccupied with the graphic artefacts produced by ADR programmes: conciliation accords. This article argues that Alteños pursue conciliation accords because of t…
Indigeneity in Anthropology
Anthropologists interested in the lived experiences and politics of indigenous peoples have turned their analyses inward, interrogating how the discipline itself has influenced settler–colonial governance projects, popular conceptualizations of indigeneity, and indigenous claims to sovereignty and recognition. This review pivots around three major thematics driving twenty‐first‐century scholarship of indigeneity in anthropology. The first entails…
Painted by Default
Across El Alto, Bolivia, a particular kind of graffiti stands out on the walls of household compounds: startling letters proclaiming deudor moroso (defaulting debtor). These public accusations of insolvency join other expressions of households in crisis, disrupting any imagined public/private boundary between city streets and homes that are charged moral, material, and social configurations. As I show, defaulting debtor graffiti spatializes loan …
Ethnography in Uncertain Times
Ethnographic fieldwork in contexts of war and massive political change has revealed the ways violence produces acute feelings of uncertainty in the lives of our interlocutors. Other research has interrogated modes of techno-scientific expertise deployed to manage uncertain futures. This article, by contrast, argues that violence itself may serve as a technique of uncertainty management, as states, citizens, and spouses alike enact 'mano dura' or …
After Servitude
Reviewed by: After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia by Mareike Winchell Susan Helen Ellison Winchell, Mareike. After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022. 352pp. A mid global Land Back movements and Indigenous assertions of sovereignty in the face of settler colonialism, Mareike Winchell’s After Servitude examines the ongoing struggle to ac…
Of cebras and citizens
Urban planners and foreign donors have long agonized over how politics, movement, and transportation infrastructure collide in the conjoined cities of El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia. As displaced tin and silver miners migrated to El Alto in droves during the 1980s and 1990s, they banked on that transportation sector to remake their lives, investing their severance packages in the lumbering "Micro" buses and minibuses that now choke both cities' stre…
Along the Bolivian Highway
Money Lightens
Introduction: Money Lightens: Global Regimes of Racialized Class Mobility and Local Visions of the Good Life. An article from journal Anthropologica (Money Lightens?: Global Regimes of Racialized Class Mobility and Local Visions of the Good Life), on Érudit
L'argent blanchit
Introduction : L’argent blanchit : régimes mondiaux de mobilité des classes racialisées et représentations locales d’une bonne vie. An article from journal Anthropologica (Money Lightens?: Global Regimes of Racialized Class Mobility and Local Visions of the Good Life), on Érudit
We Move Up Levels Together
Indigenous Bolivians, especially women, are climbing the ranks of global multilevel marketing (MLM) companies like Herbalife, Omnilife, and Hinode, seeking to join Bolivia's purportedly rising Indigenous middle class. Through MLMs, Indigenous direct sales distributors pursue a dignified life materialized in better homes, smart dressing, international travel, and the respect they receive at recruitment events. In their recruitment and sales pitche…
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