Maximilian Viatori
Biographic Data
| ID | 89267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maximilian Viatori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maximilian |
| FAMILY NAME | Viatori |
| SIGNATURE | VIATORI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods
A Book of Waves
Saving the Costa Verde's Waves: Surfing and Discourses of Race-Class in the Enactment of Lima's Coastal Infrastructure
Este artículo examina las recientes protestas de los surfistas en contra de la expansión de carreteras a lo largo de la Costa Verde, la cual consiste en un tramo de playas y acantilados de arena que brinda a los residentes de Lima, Perú, acceso al Océano Pacífico. Argumentamos que, en sus protestas, los surfistas buscaban defender una promulgación particularmente histórica sobre la infraestructura de la Costa Verde, la cual garantizaría las condi…
Uncertain Risks: Salmon Science, Harm, and Ignorance in Canada
In this article, I examine the public testimonies of expert witnesses during a Canadian federal commission charged with investigating the reasons for dramatic declines of sockeye salmon returning to British Columbia's Fraser River in 2009. These testimonies were intended to provide a foundation of expert opinion upon which clear policy recommendations could be made. However, the hearings were beset by debates over the ability of scientific resear…
Education and the State in Modern Peru: Primary Schooling in Lima, 1821–c.1921 ‐ by Espinoza, G. Antonio
Rupture and the Maintenance of Indigenous Alterity: Crises, Borders, and Race in Ecuador, 1941-2008
This article examines how narratives of historical rupture and crisis maintain, rather than upset, dominant racial hierarchies. An analysis of elite narrations of Ecuador's border conflicts with Peru and Colombia between 1941 and 2008 demonstrates how such crisis narratives functioned as ongoing strategies for reinforcing indigenous peoples' alterity within the Ecuadorian nation. Specifically, white-mestizo elites discursively framed these crises…
Defending White-Mestizo Invisibility through the Production of Indigenous Alterity: (Un)Marking Race in Ecuador's Mainstream Press
This article demonstrates the central role that discursively marked Others play in the defense and maintenance of white-mestizo unmarkedness in Ecuadorian public discourse. It does so through an analysis of the circulation of public discourses of race in interviews with indigenous activists published in the newspaper El Comercio from 1992 to 2004. These interview texts provide critical insight into the discursive strategies employed by white-mest…
Public Secrets, Muzzled Science: Agnotological Practice, State Performance, and Dying Salmon in British Columbia
This article examines recent efforts by the Canadian government to silence a federal scientist from publicly speaking about her research on the decline in Fraser River sockeye salmon. I argue that the information embargo through which Canadian officials silenced government science not only served an agnotological function of demobilizing the opposition by promoting public ignorance about ecological issues, but also functioned as a means of state …
Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights - by Richards, Patricia
Rift, Rupture and the Temporal Politics of Race in Ecuador: Whiteness and the Narration of Neoliberal Futures During and After the Cenepa War
This article explores the implications of emergent neoliberal temporalities for the ongoing temporal marking of Indigenous peoples through an analysis of Ecuadorian white-elite narratives of national futures during and immediately following Ecuador's 1995 Cenepa War with Peru. Specifically, it analyses white-elites' assertion that the war represented a rift with the country's past in order to justify policies that continued to treat Indigenous pe…
Indigenous threats and white counterfactuals: The semiotics of race in elite print media coverage of Ecuador’s 1990 Indigenous uprising
This article explores the role that images of a threatening racial other play in the exercise of power and demonstrates that the discursive framing of such threats provides insight into how responses to perceived risks become possible and politically desirable. Specifically, it examines print press coverage of the 1990 Indigenous uprising in Ecuador to examine how white-elites sought to defend the public invisibility of whiteness by framing Indig…
Histories of the Present: People and Power in Ecuador
Sovereignty and the other in Ecuadorian nationalist discourse
This article explores how exhortations for national unity are intrinsically linked to the symbolic displacement of a problematic other through an examination of elite Ecuadorian nationalist discourse and its construction of Indigenous activists as internal enemies. Specifically, this article looks at the role that the 2008 border row between Ecuador and Colombia played in publicly legitimating a concept of Ecuadorian citizenship rooted in racial …
Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes by Rachel Corr
Re-imagining Amazonia
Michael Heckenberger, The ecology of power: Culture, place and personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000-2000. London and New York: Routledge, 2004, 432 pp., ISBN: 0-415-94599-2 (paperback). John Hemming, Tree of rivers: The story of the Amazon. London and New York: Thames and Hud- son, 2008, 366 pp., ISBN: 978-0-500-51401-6 (hardback). Candice Slater, Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 332 pp…
Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia by Winifred Tate
F?tbol in Ecuador: More than a Game
A Brief History of the Spanish Language - by David A. Pharies
Soccer Nationalism: Ecuador and the World Cup
Gender And Indigenous Self-Representation In The Zápara Nationality Of Ecuador
This essay examines the construction of gender within Ecuadorian indigenous politics from the perspective of the Zápara Nationality of Ecuador–a small, newly formed indigenous organization in the country's Amazonian region. Specifically, it shows how the interaction between national-level and local-level gendered discourses of indigenous culture has resulted in limited space for Zápara women's political participation. An earlier version of this e…
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change (review)
Speaking Sovereignty: Indigenous Languages and Self-Determination
Speaking Sovereignty:Indigenous Languages and Self-Determination Maximilian Viatori (bio) and Gloria Ushigua (bio) Many indigenous nations have successfully used their languages as tools for uniting their communities, fostering indigenous identity, and defining the boundaries of their self-determination-the ability of indigenous nations to make decisions about their identity, religion, culture, economy, and legal system without interference from …
Zápara Leaders and Identity Construction in Ecuador: The Complexities of Indigenous Self-Representation
En éste artículo, exploro las practicas de auto-representación usadas por los líderes o dirigentes de la Nacionalidad Zápara del Ecuador (NAZAE), uno de los grupos indígenas más pequeños de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Éstos dirigentes han utilizado sus idiomas indígenas, específicamente zápara y kichwa, para simbolizar su autenticidad cultural cuando interactúan con individuos que no pertenecen a la nacionalidad zápara. El énfasis de éstos lideres e…
Z para Leaders and Identity Construction in Ecuador: The Complexities of Indigenous Self-Representation
Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador
Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador. Barbara Y. Butler. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico press, 2006. 452 pp
Speaking Sovereignty: Indigenous Languages and Self-Determination
Speaking Sovereignty:Indigenous Languages and Self-Determination Maximilian Viatori (bio) and Gloria Ushigua (bio) Many indigenous nations have successfully used their languages as tools for uniting their communities, fostering indigenous identity, and defining the boundaries of their self-determination-the ability of indigenous nations to make decisions about their identity, religion, culture, economy, and legal system without interference from …
Zápara Leaders and Identity Construction in Ecuador: The Complexities of Indigenous Self-Representation
En éste artículo, exploro las practicas de auto-representación usadas por los líderes o dirigentes de la Nacionalidad Zápara del Ecuador (NAZAE), uno de los grupos indígenas más pequeños de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Éstos dirigentes han utilizado sus idiomas indígenas, específicamente zápara y kichwa, para simbolizar su autenticidad cultural cuando interactúan con individuos que no pertenecen a la nacionalidad zápara. El énfasis de éstos lideres e…
Saving the Costa Verde's Waves: Surfing and Discourses of Race-Class in the Enactment of Lima's Coastal Infrastructure
Este artículo examina las recientes protestas de los surfistas en contra de la expansión de carreteras a lo largo de la Costa Verde, la cual consiste en un tramo de playas y acantilados de arena que brinda a los residentes de Lima, Perú, acceso al Océano Pacífico. Argumentamos que, en sus protestas, los surfistas buscaban defender una promulgación particularmente histórica sobre la infraestructura de la Costa Verde, la cual garantizaría las condi…
Defending White-Mestizo Invisibility through the Production of Indigenous Alterity: (Un)Marking Race in Ecuador's Mainstream Press
This article demonstrates the central role that discursively marked Others play in the defense and maintenance of white-mestizo unmarkedness in Ecuadorian public discourse. It does so through an analysis of the circulation of public discourses of race in interviews with indigenous activists published in the newspaper El Comercio from 1992 to 2004. These interview texts provide critical insight into the discursive strategies employed by white-mest…
Public Secrets, Muzzled Science: Agnotological Practice, State Performance, and Dying Salmon in British Columbia
This article examines recent efforts by the Canadian government to silence a federal scientist from publicly speaking about her research on the decline in Fraser River sockeye salmon. I argue that the information embargo through which Canadian officials silenced government science not only served an agnotological function of demobilizing the opposition by promoting public ignorance about ecological issues, but also functioned as a means of state …
Sovereignty and the other in Ecuadorian nationalist discourse
This article explores how exhortations for national unity are intrinsically linked to the symbolic displacement of a problematic other through an examination of elite Ecuadorian nationalist discourse and its construction of Indigenous activists as internal enemies. Specifically, this article looks at the role that the 2008 border row between Ecuador and Colombia played in publicly legitimating a concept of Ecuadorian citizenship rooted in racial …
Uncertain Risks: Salmon Science, Harm, and Ignorance in Canada
In this article, I examine the public testimonies of expert witnesses during a Canadian federal commission charged with investigating the reasons for dramatic declines of sockeye salmon returning to British Columbia's Fraser River in 2009. These testimonies were intended to provide a foundation of expert opinion upon which clear policy recommendations could be made. However, the hearings were beset by debates over the ability of scientific resear…
Rupture and the Maintenance of Indigenous Alterity: Crises, Borders, and Race in Ecuador, 1941-2008
This article examines how narratives of historical rupture and crisis maintain, rather than upset, dominant racial hierarchies. An analysis of elite narrations of Ecuador's border conflicts with Peru and Colombia between 1941 and 2008 demonstrates how such crisis narratives functioned as ongoing strategies for reinforcing indigenous peoples' alterity within the Ecuadorian nation. Specifically, white-mestizo elites discursively framed these crises…
Rift, Rupture and the Temporal Politics of Race in Ecuador: Whiteness and the Narration of Neoliberal Futures During and After the Cenepa War
This article explores the implications of emergent neoliberal temporalities for the ongoing temporal marking of Indigenous peoples through an analysis of Ecuadorian white-elite narratives of national futures during and immediately following Ecuador's 1995 Cenepa War with Peru. Specifically, it analyses white-elites' assertion that the war represented a rift with the country's past in order to justify policies that continued to treat Indigenous pe…
Indigenous threats and white counterfactuals: The semiotics of race in elite print media coverage of Ecuador’s 1990 Indigenous uprising
This article explores the role that images of a threatening racial other play in the exercise of power and demonstrates that the discursive framing of such threats provides insight into how responses to perceived risks become possible and politically desirable. Specifically, it examines print press coverage of the 1990 Indigenous uprising in Ecuador to examine how white-elites sought to defend the public invisibility of whiteness by framing Indig…
Gender And Indigenous Self-Representation In The Zápara Nationality Of Ecuador
This essay examines the construction of gender within Ecuadorian indigenous politics from the perspective of the Zápara Nationality of Ecuador–a small, newly formed indigenous organization in the country's Amazonian region. Specifically, it shows how the interaction between national-level and local-level gendered discourses of indigenous culture has resulted in limited space for Zápara women's political participation. An earlier version of this e…
Z para Leaders and Identity Construction in Ecuador: The Complexities of Indigenous Self-Representation
Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador
Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador. Barbara Y. Butler. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico press, 2006. 452 pp
Soccer Nationalism: Ecuador and the World Cup
New Bodies, Ancient Blood: "Purity" and the Construction of Zápara Identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon
In this article, I explore how the Zápara in Amazonian Ecuador stress the biological side of their bodies, particularly the “purity” of their blood, as an indicator of the uniqueness of their identity. In order to imagine themselves as distinct from their Kichwa neighbors—with whom they share similar cultural and linguistic practices—Zápara assert that the essence of their difference resides in their blood, which links them in an unbroken continu…
New Bodies, Ancient Blood: "Purity" and the Construction of Zápara Identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon
In this article, I explore how the Zápara in Amazonian Ecuador stress the biological side of their bodies, particularly the “purity” of their blood, as an indicator of the uniqueness of their identity. In order to imagine themselves as distinct from their Kichwa neighbors—with whom they share similar cultural and linguistic practices—Zápara assert that the essence of their difference resides in their blood, which links them in an unbroken continu…
Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador
Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador. Barbara Y. Butler. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico press, 2006. 452 pp
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change (review)
Speaking Sovereignty: Indigenous Languages and Self-Determination
Speaking Sovereignty:Indigenous Languages and Self-Determination Maximilian Viatori (bio) and Gloria Ushigua (bio) Many indigenous nations have successfully used their languages as tools for uniting their communities, fostering indigenous identity, and defining the boundaries of their self-determination-the ability of indigenous nations to make decisions about their identity, religion, culture, economy, and legal system without interference from …
Zápara Leaders and Identity Construction in Ecuador: The Complexities of Indigenous Self-Representation
En éste artículo, exploro las practicas de auto-representación usadas por los líderes o dirigentes de la Nacionalidad Zápara del Ecuador (NAZAE), uno de los grupos indígenas más pequeños de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Éstos dirigentes han utilizado sus idiomas indígenas, específicamente zápara y kichwa, para simbolizar su autenticidad cultural cuando interactúan con individuos que no pertenecen a la nacionalidad zápara. El énfasis de éstos lideres e…
Z para Leaders and Identity Construction in Ecuador: The Complexities of Indigenous Self-Representation
F?tbol in Ecuador: More than a Game
A Brief History of the Spanish Language - by David A. Pharies
Soccer Nationalism: Ecuador and the World Cup
Gender And Indigenous Self-Representation In The Zápara Nationality Of Ecuador
This essay examines the construction of gender within Ecuadorian indigenous politics from the perspective of the Zápara Nationality of Ecuador–a small, newly formed indigenous organization in the country's Amazonian region. Specifically, it shows how the interaction between national-level and local-level gendered discourses of indigenous culture has resulted in limited space for Zápara women's political participation. An earlier version of this e…
Re-imagining Amazonia
Michael Heckenberger, The ecology of power: Culture, place and personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000-2000. London and New York: Routledge, 2004, 432 pp., ISBN: 0-415-94599-2 (paperback). John Hemming, Tree of rivers: The story of the Amazon. London and New York: Thames and Hud- son, 2008, 366 pp., ISBN: 978-0-500-51401-6 (hardback). Candice Slater, Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 332 pp…
Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia by Winifred Tate
Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes by Rachel Corr
Sovereignty and the other in Ecuadorian nationalist discourse
This article explores how exhortations for national unity are intrinsically linked to the symbolic displacement of a problematic other through an examination of elite Ecuadorian nationalist discourse and its construction of Indigenous activists as internal enemies. Specifically, this article looks at the role that the 2008 border row between Ecuador and Colombia played in publicly legitimating a concept of Ecuadorian citizenship rooted in racial …
Indigenous threats and white counterfactuals: The semiotics of race in elite print media coverage of Ecuador’s 1990 Indigenous uprising
This article explores the role that images of a threatening racial other play in the exercise of power and demonstrates that the discursive framing of such threats provides insight into how responses to perceived risks become possible and politically desirable. Specifically, it examines print press coverage of the 1990 Indigenous uprising in Ecuador to examine how white-elites sought to defend the public invisibility of whiteness by framing Indig…
Histories of the Present: People and Power in Ecuador
Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights - by Richards, Patricia
Rift, Rupture and the Temporal Politics of Race in Ecuador: Whiteness and the Narration of Neoliberal Futures During and After the Cenepa War
This article explores the implications of emergent neoliberal temporalities for the ongoing temporal marking of Indigenous peoples through an analysis of Ecuadorian white-elite narratives of national futures during and immediately following Ecuador's 1995 Cenepa War with Peru. Specifically, it analyses white-elites' assertion that the war represented a rift with the country's past in order to justify policies that continued to treat Indigenous pe…
Rupture and the Maintenance of Indigenous Alterity: Crises, Borders, and Race in Ecuador, 1941-2008
This article examines how narratives of historical rupture and crisis maintain, rather than upset, dominant racial hierarchies. An analysis of elite narrations of Ecuador's border conflicts with Peru and Colombia between 1941 and 2008 demonstrates how such crisis narratives functioned as ongoing strategies for reinforcing indigenous peoples' alterity within the Ecuadorian nation. Specifically, white-mestizo elites discursively framed these crises…
Defending White-Mestizo Invisibility through the Production of Indigenous Alterity: (Un)Marking Race in Ecuador's Mainstream Press
This article demonstrates the central role that discursively marked Others play in the defense and maintenance of white-mestizo unmarkedness in Ecuadorian public discourse. It does so through an analysis of the circulation of public discourses of race in interviews with indigenous activists published in the newspaper El Comercio from 1992 to 2004. These interview texts provide critical insight into the discursive strategies employed by white-mest…
Public Secrets, Muzzled Science: Agnotological Practice, State Performance, and Dying Salmon in British Columbia
This article examines recent efforts by the Canadian government to silence a federal scientist from publicly speaking about her research on the decline in Fraser River sockeye salmon. I argue that the information embargo through which Canadian officials silenced government science not only served an agnotological function of demobilizing the opposition by promoting public ignorance about ecological issues, but also functioned as a means of state …
Education and the State in Modern Peru: Primary Schooling in Lima, 1821–c.1921 ‐ by Espinoza, G. Antonio
Uncertain Risks: Salmon Science, Harm, and Ignorance in Canada
In this article, I examine the public testimonies of expert witnesses during a Canadian federal commission charged with investigating the reasons for dramatic declines of sockeye salmon returning to British Columbia's Fraser River in 2009. These testimonies were intended to provide a foundation of expert opinion upon which clear policy recommendations could be made. However, the hearings were beset by debates over the ability of scientific resear…
Saving the Costa Verde's Waves: Surfing and Discourses of Race-Class in the Enactment of Lima's Coastal Infrastructure
Este artículo examina las recientes protestas de los surfistas en contra de la expansión de carreteras a lo largo de la Costa Verde, la cual consiste en un tramo de playas y acantilados de arena que brinda a los residentes de Lima, Perú, acceso al Océano Pacífico. Argumentamos que, en sus protestas, los surfistas buscaban defender una promulgación particularmente histórica sobre la infraestructura de la Costa Verde, la cual garantizaría las condi…
The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · History (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Indigenous (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (8 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works)