C M Novo
Biographic Data
| ID | 69887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C M Novo |
| GIVEN NAMES | C M |
| FAMILY NAME | Novo |
| SIGNATURE | NOVO C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8775-0044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Paternalism, Maternalism, and Ventriloquism as Colonial Legacies in Mexico and Ecuador
Being “white‐mestizo” in Mexico and Ecuador is not only about skin color or phenotype, but also a way of acting that provides advantages to some groups over others. This article explores the privilege of claiming to protect and speak for others through a discussion of the concepts of paternalism, “maternalism,” and ventriloquism. Maternalism is highlighted given the important role played by upper‐ and middle‐class, White‐mestizo women as mediator…
Intimate Political Economies of the Andes
This essay reviews the following works:Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia. By Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 284. $21.67 paperback. ISBN: 9780252080746
Editor’s Foreword
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Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador
Ventriloquism, racism and the politics of decoloniality in Ecuador
This article discusses two forms of discrimination against indigenous people: ventriloquism and open racism, and argues that a transition from paternalism to open intolerance has taken place in Ecuador in the context of governmental emphasis on natural resource extraction. Ventriloquism, when non-Indians speak for indigenous people, is analysed through the Sumak Kawsay (Good Living) policies of the government of Rafael Correa (2007–2017). Public …
Introduction: Lasting and resurgent racism after recognition in Latin America
This special issue examines and theorizes lasting and resurgent forms of racism after recognition and claims to decolonization in Latin America. It also analyses what the authors interpret as a retrenchment in indigenous and Afro-descendant rights. The authors argue that this shift is underpinned by factors including extractivism, aided by the ability of neoliberal multiculturalism to shape, weaken and co-opt popular movements, and launched by a …
Discriminación y colonialidad en el Ecuador de Rafael Correa (2007-2017)
Two forms of discrimination against indigenous people in Ecuador are examined: ventriloquism, when non-indigenous people speak on behalf of indigenous people; and public racism, when State authorities use repression based on the humiliations practiced in their colonial past. The example of ventriloquism discussed is the concept of good living, or Sumak Kawsay, during Rafael Correa’s government. The examples of public racism are taken from the rep…
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the rise and decline of indigenous organization in Ecuador
This review will discuss two books that explore the same topic: the impact of the use of electoral strategy on a social movement and the associated decline of ethnic organization in Ecuador. The tw
Conocimiento Occidental Y Saberes Indígenas en La Educación Intercultural en El Ecuador
Este artículo analiza la relación entre los conocimientos indígenas y los occidentales en el sistema de educación intercultural bilingüe (EIB) en el Ecuador. El texto muestra que la tensión entre ambos tipos de saberes refleja diferencias en la forma en la que entienden el papel de la educación formal las bases y los líderes del movimiento indígena. El artículo también argumenta que los aliados de los movimientos indígenas (los grupos religiosos,…
Learning from postneoliberalisms
This forum examines a range of grounded struggles over efforts to materialize elements of a ‘postneoliberal’ agenda by social and political movements of the 2000s. Drawing from their research in Latin America and South Africa, the contributors ask when, where and why these experiments in realizing postneoliberalisms have prompted durable transformations in neoliberal political economic structures and social rationalities (or not). Theorizing from…
The Minimization of Indigenous Numbers and the Fragmentation of Civil Society in the 2010 Census in Ecuador
This article takes a historical approach to understand how ethnicity and race have been measured in the 2010 census in Ecuador. The history of census taking in Ecuador reveals a strategy of social control through the minimization of indigenous numbers. This strategy does not only originate in the state, but also within the indigenous group that has not revealed itself for a number of reasons such as well-founded suspicion, discrimination, and its…
La reproducción de la dominación racial: Las experiencias de una familia indígena en Quito de Patric Hollenstein
de La reproducción de la dominación racial: las experiencias de una familia indígena en Quito
Managing Diversity in Postneoliberal Ecuador
Este artículo examina los derechos indígenas durante el gobierno de Rafael Correa, (2007 hasta el presente) en Ecuador. Dicho trabajo sostiene que este gobierno está llevando a cabo un proceso de reforma del estado que conlleva una centralización en la toma de decisiones y un énfasis en la extracción de recursos naturales con la finalidad de financiar un estado más fuerte. Dicho proceso está reduciendo la autonomía de los movimientos indígenas y …
Religión, política e identidad. Presentación del dossier
Según Geertz las religiones mayores se están separando de los lugares, gentes y formaciones sociales en donde surgieron. La persuasión religiosa se está convirtiendo en un instrumento de identidad pública negociable y móvil. Con la migración de creyentes y la formación de contextos cada vez más multiculturales y fluidos, la religión y su práctica se han vuelto más conscientes. En otras palabras, existe más reflexión y más conciencia de las propia…
Indigenous Appropriations and Boundary Crossings: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indigenous Cultures and Politics in the Andes
Indigenous Appropriations and Boundary Crossings: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indigenous Cultures and Politics in the Andes Carmen Martínez Novo (bio) Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes. By Denise Y. Arnold and Christine A. Hastorf. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2008. Pp. viii + 291. $89.00 cloth. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 9781598741711. The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity. By Jorg…
Sin maldad y colmado de frutales. El progreso, la integración y la globalización de una frontera amazónica colombiana, peruana, brasilera y antiguamente quiteña
Este libro es una contribución importante para la comprensión, por un lado, de la compleja historia de la región Amazónica desde el periodo colonial hasta nuestros días; y por otro, de lo que se ha venido a llamar recientemente Antropología de las Fronteras. Ambas líneas las desarrolla Germán Grisales con apoyo de abundantes fuentes historiográficas, así como de su amplia experiencia etnográfica y diplomática en la zona de estudio. Sus datos proc…
Lives of Dust and Water: An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico by María Luz Cruz-Torres
Racial Discrimination and Citizenship in Ecuador's Educational System
This article challenges the common assumption that the Ecuadorian educational system produces homogeneous mestizo national subjects. Educational institutions are racially segregated, produce differentiated racial and ethnic groups and allow for little social mobility. The article analyzes the ambivalent ways in which whiteness is taught in the schools of the elite, and how the middle classes prefer private religious or military schools where disc…
Ecuador: Militants, Priests, Technocrats, and Scholars
Antropología indigenista en el Ecuador desde la década de 1970: Compromisos Políticos, Religiosos Y Tecnocráticos
Este artículo responde interrogantes sobre las oportunidades y problemas que se presentan al hacer ciencia social en lugares política y económicamente inestables, sobre la inserción del investigador en los procesos sociales y políticos que analiza, y sobre las dificultades de la producción y la participación académica de los antropólogos indígenas en la antropología ecuatoriana. Uno de sus hallazgos es que los actores que contribuyeron a la organ…
The Making of Vulnerabilities: Indigenous Day Laborers in Mexico's Neoliberal Agriculture
This article explores the linkages between representations of race, culture, and social structure in the San Quint’n Valley, Baja California, an area of northwestern Mexico that produces tomatoes for export to the United States using an indigenous migrant labor force. I focus on a day laborers' riot that took place in 1996. The press debate that followed the event exposed the articulation between local cultural images, social relations, and globa…
"We Are Against the Government, Although We Are the Government": State Institutions and Indigenous Migrants in Baja California in the 1990s
“We Are Against the Government, Although We Are the Government”: State Institutions and Indigenous Migrants in Baja California in the 1990s
Este artículo analiza el trabajo de dos agencias gubernamentales mexicanas con migrantes oaxaqueños y de otros estados del sur de México a la península de Baja Cal ifornia, localizada en la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos, durante la segunda mitad de los 1990s. Sostengo que las agencias gubernamentales promovieron que los migrantes se identiiquen como indígenas y que refuercen lo que oicialmente se entiende por su organización social tradi…
The 'Culture' of Exclusion: Representations of Indigenous Women Street Vendors in Tijuana, Mexico
Representations of indigenous women vendors are contrasted with the ways indigenous women see themselves. Some images are openly hostile, whereas others discriminate against these women through a form of paternalistic love. For example, the understanding of indigenous women as outsiders from different social spaces and deviants from middle-class gender norms suggests that they are 'undeserving poor' whose interests should not be considered. On th…
Managing Diversity in Postneoliberal Ecuador
Este artículo examina los derechos indígenas durante el gobierno de Rafael Correa, (2007 hasta el presente) en Ecuador. Dicho trabajo sostiene que este gobierno está llevando a cabo un proceso de reforma del estado que conlleva una centralización en la toma de decisiones y un énfasis en la extracción de recursos naturales con la finalidad de financiar un estado más fuerte. Dicho proceso está reduciendo la autonomía de los movimientos indígenas y …
Racial Discrimination and Citizenship in Ecuador's Educational System
This article challenges the common assumption that the Ecuadorian educational system produces homogeneous mestizo national subjects. Educational institutions are racially segregated, produce differentiated racial and ethnic groups and allow for little social mobility. The article analyzes the ambivalent ways in which whiteness is taught in the schools of the elite, and how the middle classes prefer private religious or military schools where disc…
The 'Culture' of Exclusion: Representations of Indigenous Women Street Vendors in Tijuana, Mexico
Representations of indigenous women vendors are contrasted with the ways indigenous women see themselves. Some images are openly hostile, whereas others discriminate against these women through a form of paternalistic love. For example, the understanding of indigenous women as outsiders from different social spaces and deviants from middle-class gender norms suggests that they are 'undeserving poor' whose interests should not be considered. On th…
Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador
Learning from postneoliberalisms
This forum examines a range of grounded struggles over efforts to materialize elements of a ‘postneoliberal’ agenda by social and political movements of the 2000s. Drawing from their research in Latin America and South Africa, the contributors ask when, where and why these experiments in realizing postneoliberalisms have prompted durable transformations in neoliberal political economic structures and social rationalities (or not). Theorizing from…
The Minimization of Indigenous Numbers and the Fragmentation of Civil Society in the 2010 Census in Ecuador
This article takes a historical approach to understand how ethnicity and race have been measured in the 2010 census in Ecuador. The history of census taking in Ecuador reveals a strategy of social control through the minimization of indigenous numbers. This strategy does not only originate in the state, but also within the indigenous group that has not revealed itself for a number of reasons such as well-founded suspicion, discrimination, and its…
Discriminación y colonialidad en el Ecuador de Rafael Correa (2007-2017)
Two forms of discrimination against indigenous people in Ecuador are examined: ventriloquism, when non-indigenous people speak on behalf of indigenous people; and public racism, when State authorities use repression based on the humiliations practiced in their colonial past. The example of ventriloquism discussed is the concept of good living, or Sumak Kawsay, during Rafael Correa’s government. The examples of public racism are taken from the rep…
Paternalism, Maternalism, and Ventriloquism as Colonial Legacies in Mexico and Ecuador
Being “white‐mestizo” in Mexico and Ecuador is not only about skin color or phenotype, but also a way of acting that provides advantages to some groups over others. This article explores the privilege of claiming to protect and speak for others through a discussion of the concepts of paternalism, “maternalism,” and ventriloquism. Maternalism is highlighted given the important role played by upper‐ and middle‐class, White‐mestizo women as mediator…
Antropología indigenista en el Ecuador desde la década de 1970: Compromisos Políticos, Religiosos Y Tecnocráticos
Este artículo responde interrogantes sobre las oportunidades y problemas que se presentan al hacer ciencia social en lugares política y económicamente inestables, sobre la inserción del investigador en los procesos sociales y políticos que analiza, y sobre las dificultades de la producción y la participación académica de los antropólogos indígenas en la antropología ecuatoriana. Uno de sus hallazgos es que los actores que contribuyeron a la organ…
The 'Culture' of Exclusion: Representations of Indigenous Women Street Vendors in Tijuana, Mexico
Representations of indigenous women vendors are contrasted with the ways indigenous women see themselves. Some images are openly hostile, whereas others discriminate against these women through a form of paternalistic love. For example, the understanding of indigenous women as outsiders from different social spaces and deviants from middle-class gender norms suggests that they are 'undeserving poor' whose interests should not be considered. On th…
The Making of Vulnerabilities: Indigenous Day Laborers in Mexico's Neoliberal Agriculture
This article explores the linkages between representations of race, culture, and social structure in the San Quint’n Valley, Baja California, an area of northwestern Mexico that produces tomatoes for export to the United States using an indigenous migrant labor force. I focus on a day laborers' riot that took place in 1996. The press debate that followed the event exposed the articulation between local cultural images, social relations, and globa…
"We Are Against the Government, Although We Are the Government": State Institutions and Indigenous Migrants in Baja California in the 1990s
“We Are Against the Government, Although We Are the Government”: State Institutions and Indigenous Migrants in Baja California in the 1990s
Este artículo analiza el trabajo de dos agencias gubernamentales mexicanas con migrantes oaxaqueños y de otros estados del sur de México a la península de Baja Cal ifornia, localizada en la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos, durante la segunda mitad de los 1990s. Sostengo que las agencias gubernamentales promovieron que los migrantes se identiiquen como indígenas y que refuercen lo que oicialmente se entiende por su organización social tradi…
Antropología indigenista en el Ecuador desde la década de 1970: Compromisos Políticos, Religiosos Y Tecnocráticos
Este artículo responde interrogantes sobre las oportunidades y problemas que se presentan al hacer ciencia social en lugares política y económicamente inestables, sobre la inserción del investigador en los procesos sociales y políticos que analiza, y sobre las dificultades de la producción y la participación académica de los antropólogos indígenas en la antropología ecuatoriana. Uno de sus hallazgos es que los actores que contribuyeron a la organ…
Ecuador: Militants, Priests, Technocrats, and Scholars
Lives of Dust and Water: An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico by María Luz Cruz-Torres
Racial Discrimination and Citizenship in Ecuador's Educational System
This article challenges the common assumption that the Ecuadorian educational system produces homogeneous mestizo national subjects. Educational institutions are racially segregated, produce differentiated racial and ethnic groups and allow for little social mobility. The article analyzes the ambivalent ways in which whiteness is taught in the schools of the elite, and how the middle classes prefer private religious or military schools where disc…
Religión, política e identidad. Presentación del dossier
Según Geertz las religiones mayores se están separando de los lugares, gentes y formaciones sociales en donde surgieron. La persuasión religiosa se está convirtiendo en un instrumento de identidad pública negociable y móvil. Con la migración de creyentes y la formación de contextos cada vez más multiculturales y fluidos, la religión y su práctica se han vuelto más conscientes. En otras palabras, existe más reflexión y más conciencia de las propia…
Indigenous Appropriations and Boundary Crossings: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indigenous Cultures and Politics in the Andes
Indigenous Appropriations and Boundary Crossings: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indigenous Cultures and Politics in the Andes Carmen Martínez Novo (bio) Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes. By Denise Y. Arnold and Christine A. Hastorf. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2008. Pp. viii + 291. $89.00 cloth. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 9781598741711. The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity. By Jorg…
Sin maldad y colmado de frutales. El progreso, la integración y la globalización de una frontera amazónica colombiana, peruana, brasilera y antiguamente quiteña
Este libro es una contribución importante para la comprensión, por un lado, de la compleja historia de la región Amazónica desde el periodo colonial hasta nuestros días; y por otro, de lo que se ha venido a llamar recientemente Antropología de las Fronteras. Ambas líneas las desarrolla Germán Grisales con apoyo de abundantes fuentes historiográficas, así como de su amplia experiencia etnográfica y diplomática en la zona de estudio. Sus datos proc…
The Minimization of Indigenous Numbers and the Fragmentation of Civil Society in the 2010 Census in Ecuador
This article takes a historical approach to understand how ethnicity and race have been measured in the 2010 census in Ecuador. The history of census taking in Ecuador reveals a strategy of social control through the minimization of indigenous numbers. This strategy does not only originate in the state, but also within the indigenous group that has not revealed itself for a number of reasons such as well-founded suspicion, discrimination, and its…
La reproducción de la dominación racial: Las experiencias de una familia indígena en Quito de Patric Hollenstein
de La reproducción de la dominación racial: las experiencias de una familia indígena en Quito
Managing Diversity in Postneoliberal Ecuador
Este artículo examina los derechos indígenas durante el gobierno de Rafael Correa, (2007 hasta el presente) en Ecuador. Dicho trabajo sostiene que este gobierno está llevando a cabo un proceso de reforma del estado que conlleva una centralización en la toma de decisiones y un énfasis en la extracción de recursos naturales con la finalidad de financiar un estado más fuerte. Dicho proceso está reduciendo la autonomía de los movimientos indígenas y …
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the rise and decline of indigenous organization in Ecuador
This review will discuss two books that explore the same topic: the impact of the use of electoral strategy on a social movement and the associated decline of ethnic organization in Ecuador. The tw
Conocimiento Occidental Y Saberes Indígenas en La Educación Intercultural en El Ecuador
Este artículo analiza la relación entre los conocimientos indígenas y los occidentales en el sistema de educación intercultural bilingüe (EIB) en el Ecuador. El texto muestra que la tensión entre ambos tipos de saberes refleja diferencias en la forma en la que entienden el papel de la educación formal las bases y los líderes del movimiento indígena. El artículo también argumenta que los aliados de los movimientos indígenas (los grupos religiosos,…
Learning from postneoliberalisms
This forum examines a range of grounded struggles over efforts to materialize elements of a ‘postneoliberal’ agenda by social and political movements of the 2000s. Drawing from their research in Latin America and South Africa, the contributors ask when, where and why these experiments in realizing postneoliberalisms have prompted durable transformations in neoliberal political economic structures and social rationalities (or not). Theorizing from…
Ventriloquism, racism and the politics of decoloniality in Ecuador
This article discusses two forms of discrimination against indigenous people: ventriloquism and open racism, and argues that a transition from paternalism to open intolerance has taken place in Ecuador in the context of governmental emphasis on natural resource extraction. Ventriloquism, when non-Indians speak for indigenous people, is analysed through the Sumak Kawsay (Good Living) policies of the government of Rafael Correa (2007–2017). Public …
Introduction: Lasting and resurgent racism after recognition in Latin America
This special issue examines and theorizes lasting and resurgent forms of racism after recognition and claims to decolonization in Latin America. It also analyses what the authors interpret as a retrenchment in indigenous and Afro-descendant rights. The authors argue that this shift is underpinned by factors including extractivism, aided by the ability of neoliberal multiculturalism to shape, weaken and co-opt popular movements, and launched by a …
Discriminación y colonialidad en el Ecuador de Rafael Correa (2007-2017)
Two forms of discrimination against indigenous people in Ecuador are examined: ventriloquism, when non-indigenous people speak on behalf of indigenous people; and public racism, when State authorities use repression based on the humiliations practiced in their colonial past. The example of ventriloquism discussed is the concept of good living, or Sumak Kawsay, during Rafael Correa’s government. The examples of public racism are taken from the rep…
Editor’s Foreword
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador
Intimate Political Economies of the Andes
This essay reviews the following works:Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia. By Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 284. $21.67 paperback. ISBN: 9780252080746
Paternalism, Maternalism, and Ventriloquism as Colonial Legacies in Mexico and Ecuador
Being “white‐mestizo” in Mexico and Ecuador is not only about skin color or phenotype, but also a way of acting that provides advantages to some groups over others. This article explores the privilege of claiming to protect and speak for others through a discussion of the concepts of paternalism, “maternalism,” and ventriloquism. Maternalism is highlighted given the important role played by upper‐ and middle‐class, White‐mestizo women as mediator…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Indigenous (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (10 works) · Humanities (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)