Daniel M Goldstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel M Goldstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel M |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldstein |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDSTEIN D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 448 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America
In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society's growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent litera…
Futureproof
Futureproof
Security Aesthetics of and Beyond the Biopolitical
Chapter 2. Getting Engaged
Owners of the Sidewalk
Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and permanent stall vendors (fijos) and its illegal and itinerant…
Violent Democracies in Latin America
Futureproof
Decolonizing Ethnography
Colonial anthropology and its alternatives -- Journeys toward decolonizing -- Reflections on fieldwork in New Jersey -- Undocumented activist theory and a decolonial methodology -- Undocumented theater : writing and resistance
E-Terrify
The border surrounding the territory of the United States has been interiorized. As efforts intensify to police immigration in the name of creating national security, the locus of securitization ha
In/visible--In/secure
In the introduction to this theme section we attempt to disentangle the webs of in/visibility and in/security by tracing out their diverse iterations. We construct a series of conversations between two of the four key terms relevant to this discussion-security and insecurity, visibility and invisibility-as a means of analyzing the different ways in which their various articulations engage meaningfully in the production and reproduction of contemp…
Anthropology/ies
As an analytical construct, “security” is either something entirely new to anthropology or a basic element of its disciplinary foundation. Anthropology has in some ways always been concerned with security, understood broadly as the production and maintenance of social order and the management of threats to the general social good. Some of anthropology's earliest disciplinary innovations were framed in terms of social structures and the functions …
Security
Security is a vital subject of study in the twenty-first century and a central theme in many social science disciplines. This volume provides a comparative analysis of the ways in which the concept of security is theorized and studied across different disciplines. The book has two objectives: first, to explore the growing diversity of theories, paradigms, and methods developed to study security; and, second, to initiate a multidisciplinary dialog…
Color-Coded Sovereignty and the Men in Black
The appearance of effective security making-demonstrated through surveillance, visibility, and ongoing performance-is significant to contemporary sovereign authority in urban spaces characterized by quotidian violence and crime. This article examines La Cancha, Cochabamba, Bolivia's enormous outdoor market, which is policed not by the state but by private security firms that operate as nonstate sovereign actors in the space of the market. The art…
An Uncertain Anthropology
Laying the Body on the Line
Outlawed
Decolonialising ‘actually existing neoliberalism’
Dignity and Defiance
Security and the Culture Expert
What does it mean for anthropology to be relevant in the context of an ongoing global war on terror? This article examines the meanings of "security," concentrating on the discipline's engagement with the military and the ways in which the anthropological concept of culture has been deployed in post-9/11 security campaigns. It argues that while there are many potential pitfalls awaiting the so-called culture expert in military collaborations, sec…
Toward a Critical Anthropology of Security
While matters of security have appeared as paramount themes in a post-9/11 world, anthropology has not developed a critical comparative ethnography of security and its contemporary problematics. In this article I call for the emergence of a critical "security anthropology," one that recognizes the significance of security discourses and practices to the global and local contexts in which cultural anthropology operates. Many issues that have histo…
The Spectacular City
In this ethnography, Daniel Goldstein explores the significance of street festivals & vigilante lynchings in the lives of people in Villa Pagador, a barrio on the edge of Cochabamba in Bolivia. He illustrates how marginalized urban migrants express theiridentity & frustration by means of public performance
Outposts of Science
By the second half of the nineteenth century, local and regional voluntary societies were among the most widespread, accessible, and familiar public scientific institutions in America. Collectively, they made up an institutional network that converted individuals' private interest in science into a public activity. They played an essential role in the dissemination of scientific information, the growth of a scientifically literate population, and…
Now We Are Citizens
The Practice of Human Rights
Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human rights language in a variety of local settings, often differently from those imagined by human rights law itself. The case studies reveal the contradiction…
Toward a Critical Anthropology of Security
While matters of security have appeared as paramount themes in a post-9/11 world, anthropology has not developed a critical comparative ethnography of security and its contemporary problematics. In this article I call for the emergence of a critical "security anthropology," one that recognizes the significance of security discourses and practices to the global and local contexts in which cultural anthropology operates. Many issues that have histo…
The Spectacular City
fieldnotes
In our own hands
Vigilantes in the marginal communities of a Bolivian city take the law into their own hands both to police their communities against crime and as a way of expressing their dissatisfaction with the state and its official policing and justice systems. In this article, I examine an incident of vigilante violence (lynching) in one such Bolivian barrio to explore the ways in which vigilantism acts as a moral complaint against state inadequacy, challen…
Flexible Justice
As Bolivia has restructured its economic and political sectors according to a neoliberal model, citizens have been required to become more 'flexible' in securing their livelihoods, creating 'self-help' economic activities and informal employment schemes to make ends meet. At the same time, as state mechanisms for administering justice and producing 'security' fail due to the inadequacies of the neoliberal regime, Bolivian citizens are adopting 'f…
Decolonizing Ethnography
Colonial anthropology and its alternatives -- Journeys toward decolonizing -- Reflections on fieldwork in New Jersey -- Undocumented activist theory and a decolonial methodology -- Undocumented theater : writing and resistance
Security and the Culture Expert
What does it mean for anthropology to be relevant in the context of an ongoing global war on terror? This article examines the meanings of "security," concentrating on the discipline's engagement with the military and the ways in which the anthropological concept of culture has been deployed in post-9/11 security campaigns. It argues that while there are many potential pitfalls awaiting the so-called culture expert in military collaborations, sec…
Performing National Culture in a Bolivian Migrant Community
Daniel M. Goldstein, Performing National Culture in a Bolivian Migrant Community, Ethnology, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue: Relocating Bolivia: Popular Political Perspectives (Spring, 1998), pp. 117-132
Laying the Body on the Line
Desconfianza and Problems of Representation in Urban Ethnography
Anthropologists writing about "indigenous media" have identified ways in which ethnographic research involving visual technology can affect the cultural identity and political power of ethnographic subjects, providing them with tools to enhance their own identity-building projects. In this essay I contend that ethnographic writing can also be a form of indigenous media, an implement of self-representation for people otherwise marginalized from th…
Dancing on the Margins
In a migrant barrio of Cochabamba, Bolivia, a community considered marginal in the social geography of the city, people struggle to assert their integration to urban and national life. They accomplish this through dance performances that are widely recognized as components of Bolivia's national Carnaval. By demonstrating mastery of national culture, barrio residents offer alternative constructions of urban space, restore community pride, and impr…
In/visible--In/secure
In the introduction to this theme section we attempt to disentangle the webs of in/visibility and in/security by tracing out their diverse iterations. We construct a series of conversations between two of the four key terms relevant to this discussion-security and insecurity, visibility and invisibility-as a means of analyzing the different ways in which their various articulations engage meaningfully in the production and reproduction of contemp…
Names, Places, and Power
Outposts of Science
By the second half of the nineteenth century, local and regional voluntary societies were among the most widespread, accessible, and familiar public scientific institutions in America. Collectively, they made up an institutional network that converted individuals' private interest in science into a public activity. They played an essential role in the dissemination of scientific information, the growth of a scientifically literate population, and…
Orphans of the State
In an urban barrio on the outskirts of a Bolivian city, the municipal government engages in a variety of techniques to regulate and manage the illegal settlers and the lands they occupy on the urban periphery. These forms of governmentality are underscored by a paternalist discourse that enjoins barrio residents to embrace urban inclusion as part of a generalized urban Bolivian family. Barrio residents desire such inclusion as a path to citizensh…
An Uncertain Anthropology
Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America
In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society's growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent litera…
The Spectacular City
In this ethnography, Daniel Goldstein explores the significance of street festivals & vigilante lynchings in the lives of people in Villa Pagador, a barrio on the edge of Cochabamba in Bolivia. He illustrates how marginalized urban migrants express theiridentity & frustration by means of public performance
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Dancing on the Margins
Dancing on the Margins
In a migrant barrio of Cochabamba, Bolivia, a community considered marginal in the social geography of the city, people struggle to assert their integration to urban and national life. They accomplish this through dance performances that are widely recognized as components of Bolivia's national Carnaval. By demonstrating mastery of national culture, barrio residents offer alternative constructions of urban space, restore community pride, and impr…
Performing National Culture in a Bolivian Migrant Community
Daniel M. Goldstein, Performing National Culture in a Bolivian Migrant Community, Ethnology, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue: Relocating Bolivia: Popular Political Perspectives (Spring, 1998), pp. 117-132
Names, Places, and Power
Culture and Politics of Coca and Cocaine
Pathways of Memory and Power
Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People. Thomas A. Abercrombie. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 603 pp
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Desconfianza and Problems of Representation in Urban Ethnography
Anthropologists writing about "indigenous media" have identified ways in which ethnographic research involving visual technology can affect the cultural identity and political power of ethnographic subjects, providing them with tools to enhance their own identity-building projects. In this essay I contend that ethnographic writing can also be a form of indigenous media, an implement of self-representation for people otherwise marginalized from th…
Reproductive Technologies of the Self
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
In our own hands
Vigilantes in the marginal communities of a Bolivian city take the law into their own hands both to police their communities against crime and as a way of expressing their dissatisfaction with the state and its official policing and justice systems. In this article, I examine an incident of vigilante violence (lynching) in one such Bolivian barrio to explore the ways in which vigilantism acts as a moral complaint against state inadequacy, challen…
The Spectacular City
fieldnotes
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Orphans of the State
In an urban barrio on the outskirts of a Bolivian city, the municipal government engages in a variety of techniques to regulate and manage the illegal settlers and the lands they occupy on the urban periphery. These forms of governmentality are underscored by a paternalist discourse that enjoins barrio residents to embrace urban inclusion as part of a generalized urban Bolivian family. Barrio residents desire such inclusion as a path to citizensh…
The School of the Americas
Flexible Justice
As Bolivia has restructured its economic and political sectors according to a neoliberal model, citizens have been required to become more 'flexible' in securing their livelihoods, creating 'self-help' economic activities and informal employment schemes to make ends meet. At the same time, as state mechanisms for administering justice and producing 'security' fail due to the inadequacies of the neoliberal regime, Bolivian citizens are adopting 'f…
Creative Violence
Este artículo considera las maneras en que los bolivianos marginalizados e indígenas utilizan la violencia del linchamiento como táctica de auto‐representación en el dominio público de los medios de comunicación. En un contexto de exclusión social, además caracterizado por un miedo profundo frente el crimen, algunos grupos de vecinos urbanos manifiestan esta violencia para ganar publicidad por sus condiciones de vivencia; para escaramentar a los …
Creative Violence
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