Monique Nuijten
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 452473 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Monique Nuijten |
| NOMBRES | Monique |
| APELLIDO | Nuijten |
| FIRMA | NUIJTEN M |
| AFILIACIONES | Wageningen University & Research |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The antimonies of the PAH (Platform of Mortgage Victims) in Spain
In the Platform of Mortgage Victims (PAH) the common view exists that all activists are equal, that there are no leaders, and that there is no division of labor between grassroots activists and activist-politicians. We show that the trope of horizontalism (the nonexistence of hierarchy within the platform) in effect hides the existence of an unacknowledged leadership structure and of electoral aspirations. We argue that the tensions between grass…
Engaged Encounters
Anthropology and the enigma of the state
This chapter provides an inventory of ‘the anthropology of the state’. It starts from the insight that the anthropology of the state drew considerably more on scholars of political science, political philosophy and sociology than on political anthropology. The ‘theoretical genealogies’ of the field challenged the taken-for-grantedness of the state as a ‘distinct, fixed and unitary entity’ operating outside and above society. The chapter concludes…
‘ When breaking you make your soul dance ’ Utopian aspirations and subjective transformation in breakdance
This article is based on a study of the Naturalz crew, a ‘breaking’ or breakdancing group in Quito, Ecuador. Breaking is commonly analysed as a subculture of resistance. We analyse two–often neglected–dimensions of this resistance: the significance of utopian aspirations and the role of the body in subjective transformation. We argue that participants enact utopian values in breaking, for instance by affirming the value of street life and people …
Regimes De Ordenação Espacial No Brasil
Este artigo mostra como os regimes de ordenação espacial são produzidos pela junção de três forças: neoliberalismo, políticas de esquerda e visões modernistas. Ele focaliza o PROMETRÓPOLE, um programa de urbanização em Recife. Nesse programa, a dimensão neoliberal é manifesta na ideia de que o Estado, as empresas privadas e os cidadãos são responsáveis conjuntamente pela construção do espaço urbano. Além disso, espera-se que os beneficiários seja…
Corruption and the Secret of Law
This chapter discusses the current prominence of corruption in academic literature and international policy circles. It presents an overview of dominant social-scientific approaches and their limitations, arguing for an anthropological perspective. The chapter argues that the current debate about corruption is shaped by the division between the state and society and a corresponding public-private dichotomy. It further argues that the study of cor…
Corruption and the Secret of Law
Coproducing urban space
Providing an introduction to the special section ‘Close encounters: ethnographies of the coproduction of space by the urban poor’, this article sets out to argue that the image of ‘the informal’ as unruly, messy and dirty continues to inform urban planning around the world. As a reaction to this view, it contends that the informal and formal should be analysed as interconnected and that the informal sphere should be revalued. Urban development is…
Ritual and Rule in the Periphery
Drawing on historical and ethnographic research conducted between 2003 and 2008 in Usibamba in the central highlands of Peru, this chapter examines the nature of state power and citizenship in the periphery. The history of Indian communities in the Andean highlands of Peru shows how territorial control formed the basis on which the state claimed authority over people and defined people's political identities as citizens. The Revolutionary Governm…
BeingNegroin Recife Brazil
In this article, we explore the role of cultura negra and what it means to be negro for a particular segment of the population of Recife, Brazil. We zoom in on participants in Terça Negra (negro Tuesday), one of the foremost weekly events in the city. For these participants, self-identifying as negro refers not principally to skin colour but to an emancipatory project based on the consciência negra (negro consciousness), the awareness that poor p…
Political activism and the PAH (Platform of Mortgage Victims) in Spain
This article looks at the contribution of Franz von Benda-Beckmann to the analysis of political agency at the grassroots, especially the ways in which people at the margins and political activists contest existing structures of power. It examines in particular the relevance of von Benda-Beckmann's approach for the analysis of the PAH (Platform of Mortgage Victims) in Spain, a social movement that stands up against the wave of house evictions as a…
Power, Community and the State
Citizenship, the self, and political agency
The articles in this special issue start from the premise that citizenship is more than the legal status of member of a national political community with certain rights and responsibilities (Marshall, 1983). We contend that citizenship is an important and helpful way of framing anthropological enquiry into politics. The authors ask how citizenship is experienced in any given context, and thereby explore how particular political communities and po…
The perversity of the 'Citizenship Game
This article analyses the effects of slum upgrading on the lives of slum dwellers, especially on their position in society and their relation with the state. It zooms in on the implementation of Prometrópole, a World Bank-funded slum upgrading project in Recife that removes the population from shacks close to rivers to new housing estates. In this project, the state embraces participatory democracy and stresses the growing inclusion of the poor a…
Regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil
This paper shows how regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil are produced by the entangling of neoliberalism, leftist populism and modernist visions. The paper focuses on Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in Recife funded by the World Bank, which commenced in 2007. In this project, the neoliberal dimension manifests in the idea that the state, private companies and citizens together are responsible for (re)constructing urban space, and further…
From Preamble to Post‐project Frustrations
This article presents an ethnography of the evolution of Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in the Brazilian city of Recife. The project aims to improve the urban infrastructure, eradicate slums and resettle the population. We focus on the project's first area of intervention, Jacarezinho. We analyze how, from lead‐up through implementation, the project gained shape and gradually became real. Participatory procedures were very important in sh…
Ruling by Record
This contribution looks at land property relations in a peasant community in the central highlands of Peru. Rather than using a rights-based approach, the authors propose a 'practice force field approach' for their analysis of property relations under communal land tenure regimes. Their study combines qualitative ethnographic case studies with quantitative analysis of data on land distribution. In contrast to rights-based approaches, this perspec…
Changing Properties of Property
The role of institutions in local contexts
This article looks at some methodological issues that confront development research when local institutions are studied. It considers ways of formulating working concepts that are useful for obtaining information on institutions and their dynamic processes in relation to the economic activities of rural households. It presents and evaluates some quantitative and qualitative methods on the basis of case studies in Mexico and India, and considers t…
Power, Community, and the State
Between Fear and Fantasy
The question that guides this article is how to articulate, on the one hand, huge bureaucracies and bewildering governmental techniques, and, on the other, a regime of rule where power is to a large extent based on money, personal relationships and ultimately violence. An in-depth ethnography is presented of land conflicts between a peasant community and private landowners in Mexico. The article shows how, in their fight for agrarian justice, pea…
Peasant 'Participation', Rural Property and the State in Western Mexico
It is argued here that development studies tend to ignore the ways in which external interventions become embedded within existing fields of power and are influenced by past experiences. This explains to a large extent the failure of many so-called 'participatory' programmes. Crucial changes introduced by the Mexican Agrarian Law in 1992 are examined, with particular reference to the impact and grassroots perception of new 'participatory' styles …
Illegal Practices and the Re-Enchantment of Governmental Techniques
After the Mexican Revolution (1920–1920) large landholdings were expropriated and handed over to the rural population formally organized in communities known as ejidos. The Agrarian Law stipulated that ejidatarios (members of ejidos) acquired only usufructuary rights to the individual plots allocated to them, and were not empowered to sell or rent them, nor to retain land which they ceased to work. Transactions concerning plots of ejido land, ill…
Family Property and the Limits of Intervention
In the 1990s the Mexican peasants witnessed the introduction of a new Agrarian Law and the implementation of the land regularization programme, PROCEDE. In this article it is demonstrated that the privatization of previously communally held ejido land did not lead to the promised dynamic land market, nor to an increase in agricultural productivity. On the basis of an in-depth study of land tenure practices in the ejido La Canoa in Western Mexico,…
Organizing the Peasants
This article discusses some problems with partici patory approaches in development thinking. It is argued that external interventions are always embedded within wider fields of power (force fields) and that discourses of participa tion and cannot change these estab lished power relations. A study is presented of a Mexican gov ernment program that used a bottom-up approach in order to stimulate ejidos to formulate their own internal ejido rules. I…
Citizenship, the self, and political agency
The articles in this special issue start from the premise that citizenship is more than the legal status of member of a national political community with certain rights and responsibilities (Marshall, 1983). We contend that citizenship is an important and helpful way of framing anthropological enquiry into politics. The authors ask how citizenship is experienced in any given context, and thereby explore how particular political communities and po…
Between Fear and Fantasy
The question that guides this article is how to articulate, on the one hand, huge bureaucracies and bewildering governmental techniques, and, on the other, a regime of rule where power is to a large extent based on money, personal relationships and ultimately violence. An in-depth ethnography is presented of land conflicts between a peasant community and private landowners in Mexico. The article shows how, in their fight for agrarian justice, pea…
The perversity of the 'Citizenship Game
This article analyses the effects of slum upgrading on the lives of slum dwellers, especially on their position in society and their relation with the state. It zooms in on the implementation of Prometrópole, a World Bank-funded slum upgrading project in Recife that removes the population from shacks close to rivers to new housing estates. In this project, the state embraces participatory democracy and stresses the growing inclusion of the poor a…
From Preamble to Post‐project Frustrations
This article presents an ethnography of the evolution of Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in the Brazilian city of Recife. The project aims to improve the urban infrastructure, eradicate slums and resettle the population. We focus on the project's first area of intervention, Jacarezinho. We analyze how, from lead‐up through implementation, the project gained shape and gradually became real. Participatory procedures were very important in sh…
Family Property and the Limits of Intervention
In the 1990s the Mexican peasants witnessed the introduction of a new Agrarian Law and the implementation of the land regularization programme, PROCEDE. In this article it is demonstrated that the privatization of previously communally held ejido land did not lead to the promised dynamic land market, nor to an increase in agricultural productivity. On the basis of an in-depth study of land tenure practices in the ejido La Canoa in Western Mexico,…
Peasant 'Participation', Rural Property and the State in Western Mexico
It is argued here that development studies tend to ignore the ways in which external interventions become embedded within existing fields of power and are influenced by past experiences. This explains to a large extent the failure of many so-called 'participatory' programmes. Crucial changes introduced by the Mexican Agrarian Law in 1992 are examined, with particular reference to the impact and grassroots perception of new 'participatory' styles …
Ruling by Record
This contribution looks at land property relations in a peasant community in the central highlands of Peru. Rather than using a rights-based approach, the authors propose a 'practice force field approach' for their analysis of property relations under communal land tenure regimes. Their study combines qualitative ethnographic case studies with quantitative analysis of data on land distribution. In contrast to rights-based approaches, this perspec…
Power, Community and the State
Power, Community, and the State
BeingNegroin Recife Brazil
In this article, we explore the role of cultura negra and what it means to be negro for a particular segment of the population of Recife, Brazil. We zoom in on participants in Terça Negra (negro Tuesday), one of the foremost weekly events in the city. For these participants, self-identifying as negro refers not principally to skin colour but to an emancipatory project based on the consciência negra (negro consciousness), the awareness that poor p…
Regimes De Ordenação Espacial No Brasil
Este artigo mostra como os regimes de ordenação espacial são produzidos pela junção de três forças: neoliberalismo, políticas de esquerda e visões modernistas. Ele focaliza o PROMETRÓPOLE, um programa de urbanização em Recife. Nesse programa, a dimensão neoliberal é manifesta na ideia de que o Estado, as empresas privadas e os cidadãos são responsáveis conjuntamente pela construção do espaço urbano. Além disso, espera-se que os beneficiários seja…
The role of institutions in local contexts
This article looks at some methodological issues that confront development research when local institutions are studied. It considers ways of formulating working concepts that are useful for obtaining information on institutions and their dynamic processes in relation to the economic activities of rural households. It presents and evaluates some quantitative and qualitative methods on the basis of case studies in Mexico and India, and considers t…
Organizing the Peasants
This article discusses some problems with partici patory approaches in development thinking. It is argued that external interventions are always embedded within wider fields of power (force fields) and that discourses of participa tion and cannot change these estab lished power relations. A study is presented of a Mexican gov ernment program that used a bottom-up approach in order to stimulate ejidos to formulate their own internal ejido rules. I…
Organizing the Peasants
This article discusses some problems with partici patory approaches in development thinking. It is argued that external interventions are always embedded within wider fields of power (force fields) and that discourses of participa tion and cannot change these estab lished power relations. A study is presented of a Mexican gov ernment program that used a bottom-up approach in order to stimulate ejidos to formulate their own internal ejido rules. I…
Illegal Practices and the Re-Enchantment of Governmental Techniques
After the Mexican Revolution (1920–1920) large landholdings were expropriated and handed over to the rural population formally organized in communities known as ejidos. The Agrarian Law stipulated that ejidatarios (members of ejidos) acquired only usufructuary rights to the individual plots allocated to them, and were not empowered to sell or rent them, nor to retain land which they ceased to work. Transactions concerning plots of ejido land, ill…
Family Property and the Limits of Intervention
In the 1990s the Mexican peasants witnessed the introduction of a new Agrarian Law and the implementation of the land regularization programme, PROCEDE. In this article it is demonstrated that the privatization of previously communally held ejido land did not lead to the promised dynamic land market, nor to an increase in agricultural productivity. On the basis of an in-depth study of land tenure practices in the ejido La Canoa in Western Mexico,…
Between Fear and Fantasy
The question that guides this article is how to articulate, on the one hand, huge bureaucracies and bewildering governmental techniques, and, on the other, a regime of rule where power is to a large extent based on money, personal relationships and ultimately violence. An in-depth ethnography is presented of land conflicts between a peasant community and private landowners in Mexico. The article shows how, in their fight for agrarian justice, pea…
Peasant 'Participation', Rural Property and the State in Western Mexico
It is argued here that development studies tend to ignore the ways in which external interventions become embedded within existing fields of power and are influenced by past experiences. This explains to a large extent the failure of many so-called 'participatory' programmes. Crucial changes introduced by the Mexican Agrarian Law in 1992 are examined, with particular reference to the impact and grassroots perception of new 'participatory' styles …
Changing Properties of Property
The role of institutions in local contexts
This article looks at some methodological issues that confront development research when local institutions are studied. It considers ways of formulating working concepts that are useful for obtaining information on institutions and their dynamic processes in relation to the economic activities of rural households. It presents and evaluates some quantitative and qualitative methods on the basis of case studies in Mexico and India, and considers t…
Power, Community, and the State
Ruling by Record
This contribution looks at land property relations in a peasant community in the central highlands of Peru. Rather than using a rights-based approach, the authors propose a 'practice force field approach' for their analysis of property relations under communal land tenure regimes. Their study combines qualitative ethnographic case studies with quantitative analysis of data on land distribution. In contrast to rights-based approaches, this perspec…
Regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil
This paper shows how regimes of spatial ordering in Brazil are produced by the entangling of neoliberalism, leftist populism and modernist visions. The paper focuses on Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in Recife funded by the World Bank, which commenced in 2007. In this project, the neoliberal dimension manifests in the idea that the state, private companies and citizens together are responsible for (re)constructing urban space, and further…
From Preamble to Post‐project Frustrations
This article presents an ethnography of the evolution of Prometrópole, a slum upgrading project in the Brazilian city of Recife. The project aims to improve the urban infrastructure, eradicate slums and resettle the population. We focus on the project's first area of intervention, Jacarezinho. We analyze how, from lead‐up through implementation, the project gained shape and gradually became real. Participatory procedures were very important in sh…
Citizenship, the self, and political agency
The articles in this special issue start from the premise that citizenship is more than the legal status of member of a national political community with certain rights and responsibilities (Marshall, 1983). We contend that citizenship is an important and helpful way of framing anthropological enquiry into politics. The authors ask how citizenship is experienced in any given context, and thereby explore how particular political communities and po…
The perversity of the 'Citizenship Game
This article analyses the effects of slum upgrading on the lives of slum dwellers, especially on their position in society and their relation with the state. It zooms in on the implementation of Prometrópole, a World Bank-funded slum upgrading project in Recife that removes the population from shacks close to rivers to new housing estates. In this project, the state embraces participatory democracy and stresses the growing inclusion of the poor a…
Political activism and the PAH (Platform of Mortgage Victims) in Spain
This article looks at the contribution of Franz von Benda-Beckmann to the analysis of political agency at the grassroots, especially the ways in which people at the margins and political activists contest existing structures of power. It examines in particular the relevance of von Benda-Beckmann's approach for the analysis of the PAH (Platform of Mortgage Victims) in Spain, a social movement that stands up against the wave of house evictions as a…
Power, Community and the State
Coproducing urban space
Providing an introduction to the special section ‘Close encounters: ethnographies of the coproduction of space by the urban poor’, this article sets out to argue that the image of ‘the informal’ as unruly, messy and dirty continues to inform urban planning around the world. As a reaction to this view, it contends that the informal and formal should be analysed as interconnected and that the informal sphere should be revalued. Urban development is…
Ritual and Rule in the Periphery
Drawing on historical and ethnographic research conducted between 2003 and 2008 in Usibamba in the central highlands of Peru, this chapter examines the nature of state power and citizenship in the periphery. The history of Indian communities in the Andean highlands of Peru shows how territorial control formed the basis on which the state claimed authority over people and defined people's political identities as citizens. The Revolutionary Governm…
BeingNegroin Recife Brazil
In this article, we explore the role of cultura negra and what it means to be negro for a particular segment of the population of Recife, Brazil. We zoom in on participants in Terça Negra (negro Tuesday), one of the foremost weekly events in the city. For these participants, self-identifying as negro refers not principally to skin colour but to an emancipatory project based on the consciência negra (negro consciousness), the awareness that poor p…
Corruption and the Secret of Law
This chapter discusses the current prominence of corruption in academic literature and international policy circles. It presents an overview of dominant social-scientific approaches and their limitations, arguing for an anthropological perspective. The chapter argues that the current debate about corruption is shaped by the division between the state and society and a corresponding public-private dichotomy. It further argues that the study of cor…
Corruption and the Secret of Law
Anthropology and the enigma of the state
This chapter provides an inventory of ‘the anthropology of the state’. It starts from the insight that the anthropology of the state drew considerably more on scholars of political science, political philosophy and sociology than on political anthropology. The ‘theoretical genealogies’ of the field challenged the taken-for-grantedness of the state as a ‘distinct, fixed and unitary entity’ operating outside and above society. The chapter concludes…
‘ When breaking you make your soul dance ’ Utopian aspirations and subjective transformation in breakdance
This article is based on a study of the Naturalz crew, a ‘breaking’ or breakdancing group in Quito, Ecuador. Breaking is commonly analysed as a subculture of resistance. We analyse two–often neglected–dimensions of this resistance: the significance of utopian aspirations and the role of the body in subjective transformation. We argue that participants enact utopian values in breaking, for instance by affirming the value of street life and people …
Regimes De Ordenação Espacial No Brasil
Este artigo mostra como os regimes de ordenação espacial são produzidos pela junção de três forças: neoliberalismo, políticas de esquerda e visões modernistas. Ele focaliza o PROMETRÓPOLE, um programa de urbanização em Recife. Nesse programa, a dimensão neoliberal é manifesta na ideia de que o Estado, as empresas privadas e os cidadãos são responsáveis conjuntamente pela construção do espaço urbano. Além disso, espera-se que os beneficiários seja…
Engaged Encounters
The antimonies of the PAH (Platform of Mortgage Victims) in Spain
In the Platform of Mortgage Victims (PAH) the common view exists that all activists are equal, that there are no leaders, and that there is no division of labor between grassroots activists and activist-politicians. We show that the trope of horizontalism (the nonexistence of hierarchy within the platform) in effect hides the existence of an unacknowledged leadership structure and of electoral aspirations. We argue that the tensions between grass…
Sociology (19 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Political economy (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Geography (6 obras)