Eija Ranta
Biographic Data
| ID | 4501150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eija Ranta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eija |
| FAMILY NAME | Ranta |
| SIGNATURE | RANTA E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toward human/non-human conviviality
Capitalist coloniality has produced multiple crises in our minds, bodies, and social relations by commoditizing wellbeing. Our sense of belonging, collective responsibility, and conviviality with other human and earth beings has been miserably deprived. This chapter explores the decolonizing potential of new forms of conviviality as alternatives to the crisis for humanity and the biophysical environment in the Global South. Most specifically it f…
Contested meanings of Vivir Bien
This chapter focuses on the multiple definitions, interpretations, and understandings of Vivir Bien by indigenous activists, scholars, and social movements, as well as how it is framed by state policies, discourses, and actors. It argues that the principal importance of constructing alternative indigenous terminologies lies in the enhancement of indigenous political struggles for self-determination through autonomies and indigenous territories, a…
“Colonialism strikes back”
This chapter examines the complex and contested process of translating Vivir Bien improvement schemes into concrete bureaucratic practices during Morales’s first executive period. It will be shown that, to a large extent, Bolivian bureaucratic logic differs from discursive and ideological framings of state transformation and, therefore, it is argued that more attention should be paid to examining the internal functioning of state governance. Cons…
Bureaucracy as a disciplinary power
This chapter looks at the articulations between government and discipline in a state bureaucracy that is in the process of change. It examines how bureaucracy as a disciplinary power functions when it is challenged by discourses of decolonization. I argue that the MAS’s transformational agenda faces severe challenges, as indigenous policy formations collide with the existing bureaucratic-institutional structures of the Bolivian nation-state. I al…
Indigenous resistance struggles, coloniality of the state, and the capitalist world-system
This chapter sheds light on the history of the intertwined relations between Bolivian state formation and indigenous politics by looking at the complex articulations of global, national, and local processes. It is shown that indigenous peoples’ claims for indigenous self-governance have a long and active historical trajectory through the medium of resistance struggles. It is further argued that while the appearance of the notion of Vivir Bien in …
Towards decolonial government
This chapter explains the theoretical framework and conceptual choices of the study, which is located at the intersections of scholarship on Latin American decolonial thinking, Foucauldian governmentality, and global political economy. It establishes theoretical foundations for studying the use of indigenous terminologies as state policy in processes of change while also developing a theoretical framing of the concept of decolonial government.
In the name of Vivir Bien
This chapter discusses battles and power struggles over the political-economic basis of Bolivian plurinationalism. It focuses on describing and understanding diverging views and interpretations amongst elements of the political opposition, indigenous activists, left-wing politicians, and social movements over the control and distribution of assets such as natural resources, land, and territories. It examines the emergence of state-led development…
Concluding remarks
This chapter summarizes the findings of the study. It concludes that the Bolivian process of change can be best understood as a contested battlefield involving different forms of government: decolonial, neoliberal, and state oriented. The overlap and conflict of these forms illustrate the insight that the state works in complex and articulated ways in processes of social change, while indigenous terminologies have been increasingly swallowed by b…
The politics of development: Anthropological perspectives
Anthropology has consistently struggled with its role as a trustee of a ‘global liberal project’. Against this backdrop, this chapter examines the relationship of political anthropology to the politics of development through the prism of a long-term process – incomplete and perhaps ultimately unsuccessful – of disassociating anthropology from the (post)colonial project of domination through improvement. The chapter scrutinizes such a potential de…
Vivir Bien As an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization: Can Indigenous Terminologies Decolonize the State
Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization: Can Indigenous Terminologies Decolonize the State
Presenting an ethnographic account of the emergence and application of critical political alternatives in the Global South, this book analyses the opportunities and challenges of decolonizing and transforming a modern, hierarchical and globally-immersed nation-state on the basis of indigenous terminologies. Alternative development paradigms that represent values including justice, pluralism, democracy and a sustainable relationship to nature tend…
Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young Kenyans
Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization: Can Indigenous Terminologies Decolonize the State
Presenting an ethnographic account of the emergence and application of critical political alternatives in the Global South, this book analyses the opportunities and challenges of decolonizing and transforming a modern, hierarchical and globally-immersed nation-state on the basis of indigenous terminologies. Alternative development paradigms that represent values including justice, pluralism, democracy and a sustainable relationship to nature tend…
Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young Kenyans
Contested meanings of Vivir Bien
This chapter focuses on the multiple definitions, interpretations, and understandings of Vivir Bien by indigenous activists, scholars, and social movements, as well as how it is framed by state policies, discourses, and actors. It argues that the principal importance of constructing alternative indigenous terminologies lies in the enhancement of indigenous political struggles for self-determination through autonomies and indigenous territories, a…
“Colonialism strikes back”
This chapter examines the complex and contested process of translating Vivir Bien improvement schemes into concrete bureaucratic practices during Morales’s first executive period. It will be shown that, to a large extent, Bolivian bureaucratic logic differs from discursive and ideological framings of state transformation and, therefore, it is argued that more attention should be paid to examining the internal functioning of state governance. Cons…
Bureaucracy as a disciplinary power
This chapter looks at the articulations between government and discipline in a state bureaucracy that is in the process of change. It examines how bureaucracy as a disciplinary power functions when it is challenged by discourses of decolonization. I argue that the MAS’s transformational agenda faces severe challenges, as indigenous policy formations collide with the existing bureaucratic-institutional structures of the Bolivian nation-state. I al…
Indigenous resistance struggles, coloniality of the state, and the capitalist world-system
This chapter sheds light on the history of the intertwined relations between Bolivian state formation and indigenous politics by looking at the complex articulations of global, national, and local processes. It is shown that indigenous peoples’ claims for indigenous self-governance have a long and active historical trajectory through the medium of resistance struggles. It is further argued that while the appearance of the notion of Vivir Bien in …
Towards decolonial government
This chapter explains the theoretical framework and conceptual choices of the study, which is located at the intersections of scholarship on Latin American decolonial thinking, Foucauldian governmentality, and global political economy. It establishes theoretical foundations for studying the use of indigenous terminologies as state policy in processes of change while also developing a theoretical framing of the concept of decolonial government.
In the name of Vivir Bien
This chapter discusses battles and power struggles over the political-economic basis of Bolivian plurinationalism. It focuses on describing and understanding diverging views and interpretations amongst elements of the political opposition, indigenous activists, left-wing politicians, and social movements over the control and distribution of assets such as natural resources, land, and territories. It examines the emergence of state-led development…
Concluding remarks
This chapter summarizes the findings of the study. It concludes that the Bolivian process of change can be best understood as a contested battlefield involving different forms of government: decolonial, neoliberal, and state oriented. The overlap and conflict of these forms illustrate the insight that the state works in complex and articulated ways in processes of social change, while indigenous terminologies have been increasingly swallowed by b…
The politics of development: Anthropological perspectives
Anthropology has consistently struggled with its role as a trustee of a ‘global liberal project’. Against this backdrop, this chapter examines the relationship of political anthropology to the politics of development through the prism of a long-term process – incomplete and perhaps ultimately unsuccessful – of disassociating anthropology from the (post)colonial project of domination through improvement. The chapter scrutinizes such a potential de…
Vivir Bien As an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization: Can Indigenous Terminologies Decolonize the State
Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization: Can Indigenous Terminologies Decolonize the State
Presenting an ethnographic account of the emergence and application of critical political alternatives in the Global South, this book analyses the opportunities and challenges of decolonizing and transforming a modern, hierarchical and globally-immersed nation-state on the basis of indigenous terminologies. Alternative development paradigms that represent values including justice, pluralism, democracy and a sustainable relationship to nature tend…
Toward human/non-human conviviality
Capitalist coloniality has produced multiple crises in our minds, bodies, and social relations by commoditizing wellbeing. Our sense of belonging, collective responsibility, and conviviality with other human and earth beings has been miserably deprived. This chapter explores the decolonizing potential of new forms of conviviality as alternatives to the crisis for humanity and the biophysical environment in the Global South. Most specifically it f…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)