Elisabet Dueholm Rasch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 649068 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elisabet Dueholm Rasch |
| NOMBRES | Elisabet Dueholm |
| APELLIDO | Rasch |
| FIRMA | RASCH E D |
| AFILIACIONES | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4521-8404 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Wadalafken Mapu
This paper explores how collaborative ethnography can be part of building resilient coastal communities. It does so by way of a methodological reflection on a collaborative research project that was carried out by the first author together with a Mapuche Lafkenche political organization that is active in the coastal region of southern Chile and is in the process of applying for an Indigenous marine area called ECMPO Wadalafken. The Wadalafken ECM…
Sámi perspectives on energy justice and wind energy developments in Northern Norway
Los Movimientos De Esperanza Y La Defensa De La Vida en Conflictos Socioambientales en El Territorio Mapuche
En este artículo se analiza el rol político de la esperanza en la resistencia contra proyectos hidroeléctricos en territorio mapuche de las comunas de Curarrehue y Panguipulli, Chile. Siguiendo un enfoque micropolítico, nuestro objetivo es comprender, por una parte, las tensiones y conflictos que esta resistencia produce al interior de las comunidades locales y, por otra parte, el rol político de la esperanza en la lucha por la defensa de la vida…
Hacking the System
In this paper, I explore how teaching can be an act of activism; a way of hacking the neoliberal university. In doing so, I draw on our experiences with the course “Resistance, Power and Movements.” I argue that activist teaching not only involves teaching about issues related to social justice and resistance, but also engaged, horizontal teaching methods, as well as self-reflection. This implies a process of double contention. On the one hand, t…
The Supervisor Effect
In this article we reflect on our experiences as supervisors in a field methods course in order to explore how ethnographic research practices can be used as tools in the supervision of students that conduct field research for the first time and as such to provide insights about what constitutes “good supervision.” Our reflections follow the three main stages of fieldwork: preparing and designing research, doing fieldwork, and reporting on resear…
Engaged Anthropology and Scholar Activism
This special issue explores theoretical and methodological issues related to activist and engaged scholarship. Combining scholarship and activism involves the (collaborative) production of knowledge that contributes not only to understanding the issues research participants face, but also to the social change they envision (Kirsch 2018; Hale 2006; Rasch and Van Drunen 2017; Rasch and Köhne 2016). Often, this entails a process of double contention…
We were trained within the official educational system to be able to support our communities in their defense against that same system”
Teaching the History of Drugs as Commodities
Paul Gootenberg is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at Stony Brook University (New York) and Chair of History. He is a global commodity and drug historian trained as a Latin Americanist at the University of Chicago and Oxford. His works include Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (UNC Press, 2008), Cocaine: Global Histories (Routledge, 1999) and with Liliana M. Dávalos, The Origins of Cocaine: Peasant Colonization and…
The micropolitical life of energy projects
This article contributes to an emerging body of literature about the micropolitics of the transition to renewable energy by examining how community leaders, in order to protect their territories, contest the energy transition. We present findings from two ethnographic case studies of small hydropower plants (SHPs) in indigenous Mapuche territory. As SHPs up to 20 MW are considered renewable projects by law, Chilean national authorities consider t…
Engaged Encounters
After the facts
While the problematic role of knowledge in controversial policy processes is widely acknowledged, relatively little is known about how protesting citizen groups involved in such controversies construct, mobilize and use knowledge. This article explores these issues in two conflicts about planned interventions in the Netherlands. The first case, about energy policies, concerns protests against plans for shale gas extraction. In the second case, co…
Resistance to hydropower developments in contexts of violence and organised crime in Mexico
Hydropower developments not only have far reaching consequences like ecological degradation and the disappearance of livelihood resources. They also spur micropolitical processes of territorial and productive re-ordering within and between communities. This article analyses the response mechanisms of the inhabitants of a community located in the reservoir of a hydroelectric project in Mexico, facing the construction of a hydroelectric dam and the…
Becoming a Maya Woman
Indigenous beauty pageants can be seen as a way of re-appropriating indigenous identity. This article approaches beauty pageants as being situated in multiple systems of power at four levels of contestation: (1) reproducing gender relations and creating new professional and political opportunities; (2) constituting a site for cultural and political agency and delimiting the ways to 'be a Maya woman'; (3) reproducing class relations in terms of ac…
"It's Not in the Course Guide!" Reflections from a Dutch Field School on How Students Learn to Do Fieldwork
In this reflection we unpack students' first fieldwork experiences and how this parallels a rite de passage. We do so in two domains: (1) students' first fieldwork with a focus on entering the field, staying in the field, and researcher identity; and (2) the impact of fieldwork experiences on students' professional skills. Two struggles are prominent: letting go of the idea of "objectivity" and learning to deal with the whimsicalities of doing fi…
Is ‘activist’ a dirty word? Place identity, activism and unconventional gas development across three continents
Internationalized Framing in Social Movements against Mining in India and the Philippines
There are several documented cases of indigenous peoples’ conflicts with mining companies, often for the reason that the land planned for mining is sacred or culturally significant to them. This article presents a comparative analysis of two specific anti-mining social movements in India and the Philippines that combined an emphasis on environmental protection with an emphasis on indigenous cultural rights. We show how the emphasis on indigeneity…
Belonging to and in the Shale Gas Fields. A Case-Study of the Noordoostpolder, the Netherlands
This article analyses how belonging becomes articulated in relation to large-scale extractive projects. It does so through an ethnographic analysis of the construction of belonging expressed in languages of valuation (the meanings that people give to natural resources discursively and in practice) in the Noordoostpolder, the Netherlands. Belonging is understood to encompass 'feeling at home in a place' and the political processes through which be…
Citizens, Criminalization and Violence in Natural Resource Conflicts in Latin America
In Latin America grassroots organizing against megaprojects such as open pit mining, oil extraction, hydro dams and large plantations goes hand in hand with increased criminalization of social protest and violations of the human rights of activists. This results in numerous communities demanding a clean environment, participation, and justice – all at the same time. They not only face foreign companies, but are also caught in the middle of armed …
Two Engaged Academics in the Dutch Shale Gas Fields
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Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Katherine O'Donnell, Gretchen M. Herrmann, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Jamie San Andrés, Julie Raymond, Elizabeth F. Hall, Todd Sanders, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Michiel Köhne, Alexander Ervin, Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford, …
There is no law that justifies the existence of the board of elders’. Community service and legal pluralism in Santa María, Guatemala
This article analyzes how indigenous peoples actively engage in the negotiation of international, national and local legal frameworks in Guatemala. The aim of the article is to explain paradoxical outcomes of global legal pluralism through an actor-oriented approach to the construction of legal frameworks and the meaning of rights. It does so by means of a case study of the dissolution of an indigenous social institution: the cargo system. The ca…
Hydraulic fracturing, energy transition and political engagement in the Netherlands
Micropolitics in Resistance
This article analyzes Southeast Asian local communities’ resistance against the globalizing large-scale exploitation of natural resources using a micropolitical ecology approach. It focuses on how communities struggle for livelihoods, both resisting and appropriating globalized practices and narratives. Our ethnographic material encompasses natural resource conflicts in two communities: one on Sumatra (Indonesia) and one on Palawan (the Philippin…
‘Ecotourism, not mining, in Palawan!’ Territorial narratives on the last frontier (Palawan, the Philippines)
This morning my eye caught a couple of chainsaws during an interview in Pasyar’s office (a development tourist organization). They just stood there, next to the organic soap, under a poster picturing happy tourists enjoying their trip to the Underground River. ‘Aaah’, B sighed, following the direction of my eyes, ‘those are some of our confiscated chainsaws, and I wanted to tell you . . . it is part of one our newest offers. Maybe you could promo…
Transformations in Citizenship
In this article, I analyze how Guatemalan indigenous citizens claim their rights to be citizens and agents of their own development through local resistance to large-scale mining projects. These indigenous communities face massive resource extraction by multinational mining companies that endangers the quality of land and water, adversely affects community relations, and impedes indigenous self-determination. At the same time, the political recog…
Citizens, Criminalization and Violence in Natural Resource Conflicts in Latin America
In Latin America grassroots organizing against megaprojects such as open pit mining, oil extraction, hydro dams and large plantations goes hand in hand with increased criminalization of social protest and violations of the human rights of activists. This results in numerous communities demanding a clean environment, participation, and justice – all at the same time. They not only face foreign companies, but are also caught in the middle of armed …
Transformations in Citizenship
In this article, I analyze how Guatemalan indigenous citizens claim their rights to be citizens and agents of their own development through local resistance to large-scale mining projects. These indigenous communities face massive resource extraction by multinational mining companies that endangers the quality of land and water, adversely affects community relations, and impedes indigenous self-determination. At the same time, the political recog…
Micropolitics in Resistance
This article analyzes Southeast Asian local communities’ resistance against the globalizing large-scale exploitation of natural resources using a micropolitical ecology approach. It focuses on how communities struggle for livelihoods, both resisting and appropriating globalized practices and narratives. Our ethnographic material encompasses natural resource conflicts in two communities: one on Sumatra (Indonesia) and one on Palawan (the Philippin…
Engaged Anthropology and Scholar Activism
This special issue explores theoretical and methodological issues related to activist and engaged scholarship. Combining scholarship and activism involves the (collaborative) production of knowledge that contributes not only to understanding the issues research participants face, but also to the social change they envision (Kirsch 2018; Hale 2006; Rasch and Van Drunen 2017; Rasch and Köhne 2016). Often, this entails a process of double contention…
The micropolitical life of energy projects
This article contributes to an emerging body of literature about the micropolitics of the transition to renewable energy by examining how community leaders, in order to protect their territories, contest the energy transition. We present findings from two ethnographic case studies of small hydropower plants (SHPs) in indigenous Mapuche territory. As SHPs up to 20 MW are considered renewable projects by law, Chilean national authorities consider t…
Is ‘activist’ a dirty word? Place identity, activism and unconventional gas development across three continents
Hydraulic fracturing, energy transition and political engagement in the Netherlands
Internationalized Framing in Social Movements against Mining in India and the Philippines
There are several documented cases of indigenous peoples’ conflicts with mining companies, often for the reason that the land planned for mining is sacred or culturally significant to them. This article presents a comparative analysis of two specific anti-mining social movements in India and the Philippines that combined an emphasis on environmental protection with an emphasis on indigenous cultural rights. We show how the emphasis on indigeneity…
Quetzaltenango's First Mayan Mayor
Against the backdrop of ethnic political mobilisation in Latin America, this article examines how, as Quetzaltenango's first Mayan mayor, Rigoberto Quemé Chay transformed two interrelated dimensions of citizenship: political culture and the politics of belonging. It analyses the way in which citizenship is constituted at three levels. The first is within Xel-jú as an indigenous political organisation whose practices contrast withladinoways of doi…
"It's Not in the Course Guide!" Reflections from a Dutch Field School on How Students Learn to Do Fieldwork
In this reflection we unpack students' first fieldwork experiences and how this parallels a rite de passage. We do so in two domains: (1) students' first fieldwork with a focus on entering the field, staying in the field, and researcher identity; and (2) the impact of fieldwork experiences on students' professional skills. Two struggles are prominent: letting go of the idea of "objectivity" and learning to deal with the whimsicalities of doing fi…
Negociaciones locales sobre ‘lo maya’
Local negotiations on ‘Mayaness’: The system of community services in the municipality of Santa María, GuatemalaIn July 2003, one of the services in the system of community services was abolished in Santa María Chiquimula, Guatemala. Yet the Peace Accords signed in December 1996 had marked the beginning of an era in which there was more space for governing in a Mayan way. The abolition of a traditional service within the context of multicultural …
Hacking the System
In this paper, I explore how teaching can be an act of activism; a way of hacking the neoliberal university. In doing so, I draw on our experiences with the course “Resistance, Power and Movements.” I argue that activist teaching not only involves teaching about issues related to social justice and resistance, but also engaged, horizontal teaching methods, as well as self-reflection. This implies a process of double contention. On the one hand, t…
After the facts
While the problematic role of knowledge in controversial policy processes is widely acknowledged, relatively little is known about how protesting citizen groups involved in such controversies construct, mobilize and use knowledge. This article explores these issues in two conflicts about planned interventions in the Netherlands. The first case, about energy policies, concerns protests against plans for shale gas extraction. In the second case, co…
Resistance to hydropower developments in contexts of violence and organised crime in Mexico
Hydropower developments not only have far reaching consequences like ecological degradation and the disappearance of livelihood resources. They also spur micropolitical processes of territorial and productive re-ordering within and between communities. This article analyses the response mechanisms of the inhabitants of a community located in the reservoir of a hydroelectric project in Mexico, facing the construction of a hydroelectric dam and the…
Negociaciones locales sobre ‘lo maya’
Local negotiations on ‘Mayaness’: The system of community services in the municipality of Santa María, GuatemalaIn July 2003, one of the services in the system of community services was abolished in Santa María Chiquimula, Guatemala. Yet the Peace Accords signed in December 1996 had marked the beginning of an era in which there was more space for governing in a Mayan way. The abolition of a traditional service within the context of multicultural …
Representing Mayas
In this article, I analyze how indigenous authorities in Guatemala negotiate citizenship at the local level within the larger context of indigenous claim making in Latin America. I argue that the construction of citizenship at the local level is not only framed by models imposed on indigenous communities but also shaped by the meanings that individuals attach to their indigenous identity. I use the election of Quetzaltenango's first Maya mayor an…
Quetzaltenango's First Mayan Mayor
Against the backdrop of ethnic political mobilisation in Latin America, this article examines how, as Quetzaltenango's first Mayan mayor, Rigoberto Quemé Chay transformed two interrelated dimensions of citizenship: political culture and the politics of belonging. It analyses the way in which citizenship is constituted at three levels. The first is within Xel-jú as an indigenous political organisation whose practices contrast withladinoways of doi…
Transformations in Citizenship
In this article, I analyze how Guatemalan indigenous citizens claim their rights to be citizens and agents of their own development through local resistance to large-scale mining projects. These indigenous communities face massive resource extraction by multinational mining companies that endangers the quality of land and water, adversely affects community relations, and impedes indigenous self-determination. At the same time, the political recog…
The Root Is Maya, the Practice Is Pluralist
Since the 1990s Latin America has witnessed the emergence of ethnic, often social movement-based, political parties. Within this context Rigoberto Quemé Chay became the first indigenous mayor of Quetzaltenango, the second-largest city of Guatemala, a place that until then had been marked by indigenous political exclusion and racism. This article seeks to explain why Quemé was victorious in 1995 and also why he subsequently lost the election in 20…
‘Ecotourism, not mining, in Palawan!’ Territorial narratives on the last frontier (Palawan, the Philippines)
This morning my eye caught a couple of chainsaws during an interview in Pasyar’s office (a development tourist organization). They just stood there, next to the organic soap, under a poster picturing happy tourists enjoying their trip to the Underground River. ‘Aaah’, B sighed, following the direction of my eyes, ‘those are some of our confiscated chainsaws, and I wanted to tell you . . . it is part of one our newest offers. Maybe you could promo…
Micropolitics in Resistance
This article analyzes Southeast Asian local communities’ resistance against the globalizing large-scale exploitation of natural resources using a micropolitical ecology approach. It focuses on how communities struggle for livelihoods, both resisting and appropriating globalized practices and narratives. Our ethnographic material encompasses natural resource conflicts in two communities: one on Sumatra (Indonesia) and one on Palawan (the Philippin…
Two Engaged Academics in the Dutch Shale Gas Fields
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Katherine O'Donnell, Gretchen M. Herrmann, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Jamie San Andrés, Julie Raymond, Elizabeth F. Hall, Todd Sanders, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Michiel Köhne, Alexander Ervin, Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford, …
Action
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Katherine O'Donnell, Gretchen M. Herrmann, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Jamie San Andrés, Julie Raymond, Elizabeth F. Hall, Todd Sanders, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Michiel Köhne, Alexander Ervin, Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford, …
There is no law that justifies the existence of the board of elders’. Community service and legal pluralism in Santa María, Guatemala
This article analyzes how indigenous peoples actively engage in the negotiation of international, national and local legal frameworks in Guatemala. The aim of the article is to explain paradoxical outcomes of global legal pluralism through an actor-oriented approach to the construction of legal frameworks and the meaning of rights. It does so by means of a case study of the dissolution of an indigenous social institution: the cargo system. The ca…
Hydraulic fracturing, energy transition and political engagement in the Netherlands
Citizens, Criminalization and Violence in Natural Resource Conflicts in Latin America
In Latin America grassroots organizing against megaprojects such as open pit mining, oil extraction, hydro dams and large plantations goes hand in hand with increased criminalization of social protest and violations of the human rights of activists. This results in numerous communities demanding a clean environment, participation, and justice – all at the same time. They not only face foreign companies, but are also caught in the middle of armed …
Is ‘activist’ a dirty word? Place identity, activism and unconventional gas development across three continents
Internationalized Framing in Social Movements against Mining in India and the Philippines
There are several documented cases of indigenous peoples’ conflicts with mining companies, often for the reason that the land planned for mining is sacred or culturally significant to them. This article presents a comparative analysis of two specific anti-mining social movements in India and the Philippines that combined an emphasis on environmental protection with an emphasis on indigenous cultural rights. We show how the emphasis on indigeneity…
Belonging to and in the Shale Gas Fields. A Case-Study of the Noordoostpolder, the Netherlands
This article analyses how belonging becomes articulated in relation to large-scale extractive projects. It does so through an ethnographic analysis of the construction of belonging expressed in languages of valuation (the meanings that people give to natural resources discursively and in practice) in the Noordoostpolder, the Netherlands. Belonging is understood to encompass 'feeling at home in a place' and the political processes through which be…
Engaged Encounters
After the facts
While the problematic role of knowledge in controversial policy processes is widely acknowledged, relatively little is known about how protesting citizen groups involved in such controversies construct, mobilize and use knowledge. This article explores these issues in two conflicts about planned interventions in the Netherlands. The first case, about energy policies, concerns protests against plans for shale gas extraction. In the second case, co…
Resistance to hydropower developments in contexts of violence and organised crime in Mexico
Hydropower developments not only have far reaching consequences like ecological degradation and the disappearance of livelihood resources. They also spur micropolitical processes of territorial and productive re-ordering within and between communities. This article analyses the response mechanisms of the inhabitants of a community located in the reservoir of a hydroelectric project in Mexico, facing the construction of a hydroelectric dam and the…
Becoming a Maya Woman
Indigenous beauty pageants can be seen as a way of re-appropriating indigenous identity. This article approaches beauty pageants as being situated in multiple systems of power at four levels of contestation: (1) reproducing gender relations and creating new professional and political opportunities; (2) constituting a site for cultural and political agency and delimiting the ways to 'be a Maya woman'; (3) reproducing class relations in terms of ac…
"It's Not in the Course Guide!" Reflections from a Dutch Field School on How Students Learn to Do Fieldwork
In this reflection we unpack students' first fieldwork experiences and how this parallels a rite de passage. We do so in two domains: (1) students' first fieldwork with a focus on entering the field, staying in the field, and researcher identity; and (2) the impact of fieldwork experiences on students' professional skills. Two struggles are prominent: letting go of the idea of "objectivity" and learning to deal with the whimsicalities of doing fi…
We were trained within the official educational system to be able to support our communities in their defense against that same system”
Teaching the History of Drugs as Commodities
Paul Gootenberg is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at Stony Brook University (New York) and Chair of History. He is a global commodity and drug historian trained as a Latin Americanist at the University of Chicago and Oxford. His works include Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (UNC Press, 2008), Cocaine: Global Histories (Routledge, 1999) and with Liliana M. Dávalos, The Origins of Cocaine: Peasant Colonization and…
The micropolitical life of energy projects
This article contributes to an emerging body of literature about the micropolitics of the transition to renewable energy by examining how community leaders, in order to protect their territories, contest the energy transition. We present findings from two ethnographic case studies of small hydropower plants (SHPs) in indigenous Mapuche territory. As SHPs up to 20 MW are considered renewable projects by law, Chilean national authorities consider t…
Hacking the System
In this paper, I explore how teaching can be an act of activism; a way of hacking the neoliberal university. In doing so, I draw on our experiences with the course “Resistance, Power and Movements.” I argue that activist teaching not only involves teaching about issues related to social justice and resistance, but also engaged, horizontal teaching methods, as well as self-reflection. This implies a process of double contention. On the one hand, t…
The Supervisor Effect
In this article we reflect on our experiences as supervisors in a field methods course in order to explore how ethnographic research practices can be used as tools in the supervision of students that conduct field research for the first time and as such to provide insights about what constitutes “good supervision.” Our reflections follow the three main stages of fieldwork: preparing and designing research, doing fieldwork, and reporting on resear…
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