N Postero
Biographic Data
| ID | 32792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Postero |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Postero |
| SIGNATURE | POSTERO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2298-7139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 235 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Introduction to the Special Issue on Indigenous and Afrodescendant Movements and Organizations in Latin America: Negotiating, Resisting, Performing and Re-purposing Dominant Categories
In 2018 the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva organized together with Europaeum and Alternautas, the workshop on “Democracy, Indigenous Rights and Ethno-Racial Mobilization: Latin America in Comparative Perspective.” This workshop was part of the “Geneva Democracy Week” organized by the Geneva Chancellery of State to promote dialogue between political institutions, civil society, students and citizens, with a view to strengthening th…
The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development
Sami Parliaments were established in 1989 in Norway, in 1994 in Sweden and in 1997 in Finland. Representative Sami institutions are regarded as a condition for Sami self-determination. State formation in the Scandinavian context has been enacted through several historical dynamics. First, nation-building relied on the assimilation or segregation of other cultural groups, through coercive measures aiming at making these groups invisible and powerl…
Collaborative ethnographic methods: Dismantling the ‘anthropological broom closet’
Scholars and activists are increasingly carrying out collaborative research to respond to the asymmetrical privileges built into Western science by partnering with local communities and explicitly orienting their research towards their political aims. In this article, we examine this important shift, tracing the ways it intersects with other important trends in the field, especially the politics of knowledge and decolonization. We discuss the ten…
Self-Governance in Bolivia’s First Indigenous Autonomy: Charagua
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognizes Indigenous peoples’ rights to self-determination and to maintain their distinct institutions. This article investigates how those rights are being exercised in Charagua, which became Bolivia’s first “Indigenous autonomous government” when the municipality’s Guaraní majority approved conversion in 2015. We explore the construction of novel institutions of self-government to assess h…
Reflections on Collaborative Ethnography and Decolonization in Latin America, Aotearoa, and Beyond
As the ongoing legacies of colonialism are challenged, scholars and activists are increasingly carrying out collaborative research to respond to the asymmetrical privileges built into Western science by partnering with communities and explicitly orienting their research towards communities’ political aims. In this article, we trace the ways this shift intersects with other important trends in ethnographic research, especially attention to the pol…
Del "Yemboaty" a la autonomía: El trabajo de Xavier Albó con los Guaraní del Chaco Boliviano
Este artículo analiza el trabajo de Xavier Albó con los guaraní del Chaco boliviano, enfocándose en textos icónicos durante tres momentos importantes de la historia guaraní. Sostengo que al documentar las estructuras de la economía política y la historia bajo las cuales han vivido los guaraní, al igual que sus recursos culturales, el trabajo de Albó contribuye a los debates actuales en antropología sobre la naturaleza construida, fluida y dinámic…
Introduction: A return to politics
What does politics mean in contemporary anthropology? Counter to propositions that argue that neoliberalism has produced a "post-political" condition, we argue the notion of a post-political world was never empirically accurate. Instead, using the ethnographic method, our contributors show ongoing and diverse forms of political practices and contestations in the contemporary moment. We reconsider politics at a conceptual level, defining politics …
Indigenous sovereignty and the new developmentalism in plurinational Bolivia
Across Latin America indigenous groups are asserting an alternative form of sovereignty they are calling indigenous autonomy. They have found support in international documents such as the 2007 United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Rights, as well as some Left-leaning governments such as those in Bolivia and Ecuador. Yet, there is a fundamental paradox at play in these demands: indigenous actors must negotiate their self-determination with the…
Performing Indigeneity in Bolivia: The Struggle Over the Tipnis
In this article, we describe the performances of indigeneity during the so-called "TIPNIS controversy" in Bolivia. In 2010, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government announced its plans to build a highway through lowland indigenous lands and territories. This controversy—particularly the fact that Morales failed to consult with lowland Indians before beginning the project—sparked two spectacular indigenous marches organized by the Confederat…
Introduction: The politics of identity in neoliberal Chile
In July 2007, an indigenous Aymara herder, Gabriela Blas, and her 3-year-old son, Domingo Eloy, were taking care of their llamas and alpacas in the Chilean highlands. When she lost two of her anima
Fernando Pairicán on the Mapuche: Indigenous Organizing in the Long Shadow of Neoliberal Dictatorship
Sacrificing Indigenous Bodies and Lands: The Political-Economic History of Lowland Bolivia in Light of the Recent Tipnis Debate
El plan de Evo Morales de construir una autopista masiva a través de tierras y territorios indígenas ha creado una tormenta política que ha hecho temblar a Bolivia. Nosotros argumentamos que este conflicto no puede ser comprendido fuera de la historia de las industrias extractivas y producción agrícola en las tierras bajas bolivianas porque ambas han creado patrones racializados de opresión y explotación laboral que han estructurado a las tierras…
Performing the ‘wounded Indian’: A new platform of democracy and human rights in Bolivia’s autonomy movement
This article examines Right-wing political performances in the Bolivian Eastern lowlands where regional elites claim to be living under the authoritarian dictatorship of Left-leaning President Evo Morales. We analyse how regional elites advocate for political autonomy through embodied and spectacular performances linked to discourses of indigeneity, human rights and democracy. Right-wing leaders try to legitimise their claims for justice and terr…
Contested Bodies, Contested States: Performance, Emotions, and New Forms of Regional Governance in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Este artículo busca comprender cómo estrategias de protesta incorporadas y utilizadas por la élite local en la región de Santa Cruz de Bolivia (del 2006 al 2010) canalizan emociones y construyen identidades colectivas con el fin de oponerse al gobierno centralizado de Evo Morales. Las élites regionales ahora se imaginan como ciudadanos marginados de una nación-estado que representa los intereses de los pueblos indígenas y que amenaza con socavar …
Introduction: Negotiating Indigeneity
This special issue of LACES considers the politics of indigeneity in Bolivia. The authors add to the scholarship assessing the complex political positions of indigenous people in Latin America by considering three interrelated ways in which 'politics' and 'indigeneity' are related. First, they consider the broad power relations in which indigenous actors are immersed, focusing on enduring structures of racism and inequality, governance and state-…
The Struggle to Create a Radical Democracy in Bolivia
Evo Morales's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government is often held up as the leading edge of the so-called left turn in Latin America. Yet this article argues that there is profound tension in the MAS administration: a push for social justice to overcome both colonialism and neoliberalism, on the one hand, and the embrace of liberal political institutions (e.g., elections, constitutional conventions, direct public referenda) to do so, on the o…
Morales's MAS Government: Building Indigenous Popular Hegemony in Bolivia
At his 2006 inauguration, Bolivia's President Evo Morales claimed a lineage that included Andean indigenous insurrectional struggles, Simón Bolívar's nationalism, and Che Guevara's socialism. He and his MAS party have been attempting to articulate three very different lines of struggle, focusing on indigenous rights, economic justice, and popular democracy. They mediate these contradictions by adopting a core agenda that might be called "indigeno…
The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America
Andean Utopias in Evo Morales's Bolivia
As indigenous people have emerged as political actors in Bolivia, indigenous activists, the media, and scholars have begun to articulate a new discourse that represents Andean culture as coherent, enduring, and fundamental to the transformation of contemporary Bolivian society. This essay focuses on the ways new president Evo Morales and his government are utilizing idealist utopian visions of Andean culture, such as the notion of pachakuti, to n…
The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America
Contesting Citizenship in Latin America, the Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge
Contesting Citizenship in Latin America, the Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge By Deborah Yashar. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2005
Commentary on "Campesinos and Originarios …"
Commentary on "Campesinos and Originarios …"
Indigenous Responses to Neoliberalism
Indigenous Movements and the Indian Question in Latin America
Contesting Citizenship in Latin America, the Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge
Contesting Citizenship in Latin America, the Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge By Deborah Yashar. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2005
Morales's MAS Government: Building Indigenous Popular Hegemony in Bolivia
At his 2006 inauguration, Bolivia's President Evo Morales claimed a lineage that included Andean indigenous insurrectional struggles, Simón Bolívar's nationalism, and Che Guevara's socialism. He and his MAS party have been attempting to articulate three very different lines of struggle, focusing on indigenous rights, economic justice, and popular democracy. They mediate these contradictions by adopting a core agenda that might be called "indigeno…
Introduction: Negotiating Indigeneity
This special issue of LACES considers the politics of indigeneity in Bolivia. The authors add to the scholarship assessing the complex political positions of indigenous people in Latin America by considering three interrelated ways in which 'politics' and 'indigeneity' are related. First, they consider the broad power relations in which indigenous actors are immersed, focusing on enduring structures of racism and inequality, governance and state-…
Sacrificing Indigenous Bodies and Lands: The Political-Economic History of Lowland Bolivia in Light of the Recent Tipnis Debate
El plan de Evo Morales de construir una autopista masiva a través de tierras y territorios indígenas ha creado una tormenta política que ha hecho temblar a Bolivia. Nosotros argumentamos que este conflicto no puede ser comprendido fuera de la historia de las industrias extractivas y producción agrícola en las tierras bajas bolivianas porque ambas han creado patrones racializados de opresión y explotación laboral que han estructurado a las tierras…
Andean Utopias in Evo Morales's Bolivia
As indigenous people have emerged as political actors in Bolivia, indigenous activists, the media, and scholars have begun to articulate a new discourse that represents Andean culture as coherent, enduring, and fundamental to the transformation of contemporary Bolivian society. This essay focuses on the ways new president Evo Morales and his government are utilizing idealist utopian visions of Andean culture, such as the notion of pachakuti, to n…
Indigenous sovereignty and the new developmentalism in plurinational Bolivia
Across Latin America indigenous groups are asserting an alternative form of sovereignty they are calling indigenous autonomy. They have found support in international documents such as the 2007 United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Rights, as well as some Left-leaning governments such as those in Bolivia and Ecuador. Yet, there is a fundamental paradox at play in these demands: indigenous actors must negotiate their self-determination with the…
Introduction: A return to politics
What does politics mean in contemporary anthropology? Counter to propositions that argue that neoliberalism has produced a "post-political" condition, we argue the notion of a post-political world was never empirically accurate. Instead, using the ethnographic method, our contributors show ongoing and diverse forms of political practices and contestations in the contemporary moment. We reconsider politics at a conceptual level, defining politics …
Indigenous Responses to Neoliberalism
Contested Bodies, Contested States: Performance, Emotions, and New Forms of Regional Governance in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Este artículo busca comprender cómo estrategias de protesta incorporadas y utilizadas por la élite local en la región de Santa Cruz de Bolivia (del 2006 al 2010) canalizan emociones y construyen identidades colectivas con el fin de oponerse al gobierno centralizado de Evo Morales. Las élites regionales ahora se imaginan como ciudadanos marginados de una nación-estado que representa los intereses de los pueblos indígenas y que amenaza con socavar …
Introduction: The politics of identity in neoliberal Chile
In July 2007, an indigenous Aymara herder, Gabriela Blas, and her 3-year-old son, Domingo Eloy, were taking care of their llamas and alpacas in the Chilean highlands. When she lost two of her anima
Reflections on Collaborative Ethnography and Decolonization in Latin America, Aotearoa, and Beyond
As the ongoing legacies of colonialism are challenged, scholars and activists are increasingly carrying out collaborative research to respond to the asymmetrical privileges built into Western science by partnering with communities and explicitly orienting their research towards communities’ political aims. In this article, we trace the ways this shift intersects with other important trends in ethnographic research, especially attention to the pol…
Performing Indigeneity in Bolivia: The Struggle Over the Tipnis
In this article, we describe the performances of indigeneity during the so-called "TIPNIS controversy" in Bolivia. In 2010, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government announced its plans to build a highway through lowland indigenous lands and territories. This controversy—particularly the fact that Morales failed to consult with lowland Indians before beginning the project—sparked two spectacular indigenous marches organized by the Confederat…
On Trial in the Promised Land: Seeking Asylum
Refugees seeking asylum in the United States face a legal system insensitive to the emotional problems refugees commonly suffer. Refugees who have escaped persecution in their homelands may be unprepared for the stress of the political asylum process. They are often treated more like criminals than victims of political violence. Many experience renewed terror as they are arrested by armed officers, jailed, and put on trial. Lawyers and judges wit…
On Trial in the Promised Land: Seeking Asylum
Refugees seeking asylum in the United States face a legal system insensitive to the emotional problems refugees commonly suffer. Refugees who have escaped persecution in their homelands may be unprepared for the stress of the political asylum process. They are often treated more like criminals than victims of political violence. Many experience renewed terror as they are arrested by armed officers, jailed, and put on trial. Lawyers and judges wit…
Indigenous Movements and the Indian Question in Latin America
Commentary on "Campesinos and Originarios …"
Commentary on "Campesinos and Originarios …"
Indigenous Responses to Neoliberalism
The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America
Contesting Citizenship in Latin America, the Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge
Contesting Citizenship in Latin America, the Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge By Deborah Yashar. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2005
Andean Utopias in Evo Morales's Bolivia
As indigenous people have emerged as political actors in Bolivia, indigenous activists, the media, and scholars have begun to articulate a new discourse that represents Andean culture as coherent, enduring, and fundamental to the transformation of contemporary Bolivian society. This essay focuses on the ways new president Evo Morales and his government are utilizing idealist utopian visions of Andean culture, such as the notion of pachakuti, to n…
The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America
The Struggle to Create a Radical Democracy in Bolivia
Evo Morales's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government is often held up as the leading edge of the so-called left turn in Latin America. Yet this article argues that there is profound tension in the MAS administration: a push for social justice to overcome both colonialism and neoliberalism, on the one hand, and the embrace of liberal political institutions (e.g., elections, constitutional conventions, direct public referenda) to do so, on the o…
Morales's MAS Government: Building Indigenous Popular Hegemony in Bolivia
At his 2006 inauguration, Bolivia's President Evo Morales claimed a lineage that included Andean indigenous insurrectional struggles, Simón Bolívar's nationalism, and Che Guevara's socialism. He and his MAS party have been attempting to articulate three very different lines of struggle, focusing on indigenous rights, economic justice, and popular democracy. They mediate these contradictions by adopting a core agenda that might be called "indigeno…
Contested Bodies, Contested States: Performance, Emotions, and New Forms of Regional Governance in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Este artículo busca comprender cómo estrategias de protesta incorporadas y utilizadas por la élite local en la región de Santa Cruz de Bolivia (del 2006 al 2010) canalizan emociones y construyen identidades colectivas con el fin de oponerse al gobierno centralizado de Evo Morales. Las élites regionales ahora se imaginan como ciudadanos marginados de una nación-estado que representa los intereses de los pueblos indígenas y que amenaza con socavar …
Introduction: Negotiating Indigeneity
This special issue of LACES considers the politics of indigeneity in Bolivia. The authors add to the scholarship assessing the complex political positions of indigenous people in Latin America by considering three interrelated ways in which 'politics' and 'indigeneity' are related. First, they consider the broad power relations in which indigenous actors are immersed, focusing on enduring structures of racism and inequality, governance and state-…
Performing the ‘wounded Indian’: A new platform of democracy and human rights in Bolivia’s autonomy movement
This article examines Right-wing political performances in the Bolivian Eastern lowlands where regional elites claim to be living under the authoritarian dictatorship of Left-leaning President Evo Morales. We analyse how regional elites advocate for political autonomy through embodied and spectacular performances linked to discourses of indigeneity, human rights and democracy. Right-wing leaders try to legitimise their claims for justice and terr…
Sacrificing Indigenous Bodies and Lands: The Political-Economic History of Lowland Bolivia in Light of the Recent Tipnis Debate
El plan de Evo Morales de construir una autopista masiva a través de tierras y territorios indígenas ha creado una tormenta política que ha hecho temblar a Bolivia. Nosotros argumentamos que este conflicto no puede ser comprendido fuera de la historia de las industrias extractivas y producción agrícola en las tierras bajas bolivianas porque ambas han creado patrones racializados de opresión y explotación laboral que han estructurado a las tierras…
Performing Indigeneity in Bolivia: The Struggle Over the Tipnis
In this article, we describe the performances of indigeneity during the so-called "TIPNIS controversy" in Bolivia. In 2010, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government announced its plans to build a highway through lowland indigenous lands and territories. This controversy—particularly the fact that Morales failed to consult with lowland Indians before beginning the project—sparked two spectacular indigenous marches organized by the Confederat…
Introduction: The politics of identity in neoliberal Chile
In July 2007, an indigenous Aymara herder, Gabriela Blas, and her 3-year-old son, Domingo Eloy, were taking care of their llamas and alpacas in the Chilean highlands. When she lost two of her anima
Fernando Pairicán on the Mapuche: Indigenous Organizing in the Long Shadow of Neoliberal Dictatorship
Introduction: A return to politics
What does politics mean in contemporary anthropology? Counter to propositions that argue that neoliberalism has produced a "post-political" condition, we argue the notion of a post-political world was never empirically accurate. Instead, using the ethnographic method, our contributors show ongoing and diverse forms of political practices and contestations in the contemporary moment. We reconsider politics at a conceptual level, defining politics …
Indigenous sovereignty and the new developmentalism in plurinational Bolivia
Across Latin America indigenous groups are asserting an alternative form of sovereignty they are calling indigenous autonomy. They have found support in international documents such as the 2007 United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Rights, as well as some Left-leaning governments such as those in Bolivia and Ecuador. Yet, there is a fundamental paradox at play in these demands: indigenous actors must negotiate their self-determination with the…
Collaborative ethnographic methods: Dismantling the ‘anthropological broom closet’
Scholars and activists are increasingly carrying out collaborative research to respond to the asymmetrical privileges built into Western science by partnering with local communities and explicitly orienting their research towards their political aims. In this article, we examine this important shift, tracing the ways it intersects with other important trends in the field, especially the politics of knowledge and decolonization. We discuss the ten…
Self-Governance in Bolivia’s First Indigenous Autonomy: Charagua
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognizes Indigenous peoples’ rights to self-determination and to maintain their distinct institutions. This article investigates how those rights are being exercised in Charagua, which became Bolivia’s first “Indigenous autonomous government” when the municipality’s Guaraní majority approved conversion in 2015. We explore the construction of novel institutions of self-government to assess h…
Reflections on Collaborative Ethnography and Decolonization in Latin America, Aotearoa, and Beyond
As the ongoing legacies of colonialism are challenged, scholars and activists are increasingly carrying out collaborative research to respond to the asymmetrical privileges built into Western science by partnering with communities and explicitly orienting their research towards communities’ political aims. In this article, we trace the ways this shift intersects with other important trends in ethnographic research, especially attention to the pol…
Del "Yemboaty" a la autonomía: El trabajo de Xavier Albó con los Guaraní del Chaco Boliviano
Este artículo analiza el trabajo de Xavier Albó con los guaraní del Chaco boliviano, enfocándose en textos icónicos durante tres momentos importantes de la historia guaraní. Sostengo que al documentar las estructuras de la economía política y la historia bajo las cuales han vivido los guaraní, al igual que sus recursos culturales, el trabajo de Albó contribuye a los debates actuales en antropología sobre la naturaleza construida, fluida y dinámic…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Indigenous and Afrodescendant Movements and Organizations in Latin America: Negotiating, Resisting, Performing and Re-purposing Dominant Categories
In 2018 the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva organized together with Europaeum and Alternautas, the workshop on “Democracy, Indigenous Rights and Ethno-Racial Mobilization: Latin America in Comparative Perspective.” This workshop was part of the “Geneva Democracy Week” organized by the Geneva Chancellery of State to promote dialogue between political institutions, civil society, students and citizens, with a view to strengthening th…
Political science (23 works) · Law (18 works) · Indigenous (17 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (12 works) · Indigenous Cultures and History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works)