L Gill
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2573 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L Gill |
| PRENOMES | L |
| SOBRENOME | Gill |
| ASSINATURA | GILL L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0922-8821 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 280 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Uneven and combined development in anthropology
In this brief essay, we suggest that contemporary efforts at reworking Leon Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development (UCD) are enriched by an historical ethnographic lens focused on "real people doing real things," which grounds and de-fetishizes the abstractions of capitalist development. We sketch three ways to develop UCD to better apprehend contemporary capitalism: tracing the effects of unevenness and combination within social for…
Bringing Class Back
The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor
"The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor offers a cross-cultural examination of labor around the world and presents the breadth of a growing and vital subfield of anthropology. As we enter a new crisis-ridden age, some laboring people are protected, while others face impoverishment and death, as they work in unsafe conditions, migrate to gain livelihoods, languish in the unwaged sector, and become targets of law enforcement. The contr…
Notes from Music City
Creating Citizens, Making Men
Intellectual labor in dark times
The post-Great Recession, zombielike resurrection of neoliberalism has taken much of Europe and the United States on a hard-right detour into a twilight zone of populist nationalism, where far-right critiques of the status quo resonate more deeply with the white working class than leftist analyses. As rising fears of cultural eclipse, economic decline, and elite resentment drive the appeal of right-wing nationalists in the United States, Europe, …
Revolutionaries of the Right
The presidency of Donald Trump has focused considerable attention on the rise and mainstreaming of the far right in the United States. Many historians view its emergence as a domestic phenomenon embedded in reaction to the New Deal and the labor, civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights movements of the latter half of the 20th century. Kyle Burke argues that such explanations are incomplete. In Revolutionaries of the Right, he documents the t…
No Smooth Surfaces
Although concerns about complexity and multiplicity have long been at the core of ethnographic research, this article moves beyond such descriptive terms and develops a theoretically engaged concept of unevenness and combination. We argue that unevenness is not just the outcome of capitalist development; it is politically momentous. Unevenness emerges from the struggle between capital and labor and from the historically specific ways that they co…
Another Chance for Peace in Colombia
History, politics, space, labor
A Century of Violence in a Red City
In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, from their origins in the 1920s to their effective activism for agrarian reforms, labor rights, and social pro…
Ethnography at its edges
Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar argue convincingly in Anthropology's Politics that US-based academics face harassment and threats to their careers if they publicly reject US militarism in the Middle East and criticize the Israeli state in their teaching, research, and public speaking. Their analysis of five generations of anthropologists demonstrates that knowledge production is always political, but the thematic chapter organization-graduate schoo…
Building transnational labor solidarity
Kregg Hetherington. Guerrilla Auditors
The spread of liberal democracy in the aftermath of the Cold War brought exhortations from development planners that transparent information was key to the election of competent government officials, the efficient operation of state bureaucracies, and the proper functioning of capitalist markets. In the absence of such information, democracy was likely to fail and capitalist markets would not perform well. Kregg Hetherington effectively skewers t…
Disorder and Everyday Life in Barrancabermeja
This article examines how years of political violence and neoliberal restructuring have disorganized social life in Barrancabermeja. How, it asks, can working people grasp the future without the stability to understand the present and the ways that it both emerges and is different from the past? It explores how an extreme form of neoliberalism fragmented various forms of social solidarity, infused social life with fear, and generated violent, cli…
Commentaries on “Knowledge and Empire
Progressive Policy for the Americas? A Nacla Roundtable
In early september, nacla invited lesley gill, Greg Grandin, Deborah Poole, and Mark Weisbrot to participate in a roundtable discussion on the question of proposing a progressive U.S. foreign policy agenda toward Latin America. What follows is an amended version of that conversation, moderated by NACLA director and publisher Christy Thornton. In a few cases, participants updated their remarks following the November 4 presidential election. Additi…
Durable Disorder
(2009). Durable Disorder: Parapolitics in Barrancabermeja. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 20-24
Colombia
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLesley GillLesley Gill teaches anthropology at Vanderbilt University and is the author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2004). She is currently conducting research on political violence and neoliberalism in Colombia
Counting the Dead
The limits of solidarity
In this article, I explore the concept of "solidarity" through an examination of the alliances and disjunctures that shaped a transnational campaign against the Coca-Cola Company. I consider how the balance of power within cross-class coalitions influenced the framing of issues and the development of tactics, and I examine the tensions that arose among diverse groups who chose to struggle together but shared different goals and perspectives. I ar…
War and Peace in Colombia
Low-intensity conflicts, counter-insurgencies, and the so-called war on terror blur the boundaries between war and peace and, in doing so, collapse the distinctions between combatants and non-combatants. Scholars have used concepts such as `routinization of terror', `culture of fear', and `banalization of violence' to describe how fear regulates social life in places of extreme instability. These concepts often paint an overgeneralized portrait o…
The School of the Americas
Forum
Elective surgery for aortic abdominal aneurysm
Introduction: The aim of this study was to quantify mortality after elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in England, and to compare English case fatality rates (CFRs) with those reported in the literature. Patients and methods: English Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for the financial years 1998/9 to 2001/2, linked to death data, were analysed. A systematic literature search was undertaken to identify studies reporting CFRs after …
Creating Citizens, Making Men
Like a Veil to Cover Them
This article explores the connections between class, gender, and evangelical Christian ideology in the formation of new social relationships, as well as in the masking of inequalities and the implicit affirmation of traditional relations of domination between men and women. It argues that women address gender‐ and class‐based problems by using religious ideology to recast the meaning of past events. Through their ties to other believers, they als…
No Smooth Surfaces
Although concerns about complexity and multiplicity have long been at the core of ethnographic research, this article moves beyond such descriptive terms and develops a theoretically engaged concept of unevenness and combination. We argue that unevenness is not just the outcome of capitalist development; it is politically momentous. Unevenness emerges from the struggle between capital and labor and from the historically specific ways that they co…
The limits of solidarity
In this article, I explore the concept of "solidarity" through an examination of the alliances and disjunctures that shaped a transnational campaign against the Coca-Cola Company. I consider how the balance of power within cross-class coalitions influenced the framing of issues and the development of tactics, and I examine the tensions that arose among diverse groups who chose to struggle together but shared different goals and perspectives. I ar…
A Century of Violence in a Red City
In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, from their origins in the 1920s to their effective activism for agrarian reforms, labor rights, and social pro…
Relocating Class
■ This article examines the changing life circumstances of former Boli vian tin miners, who, following the closure of state-operated tin mines, settled on the periphery of the Bolivian capital, La Paz. It considers the dynamics that shape class formation and struggle in this impoverished setting. The analysis explores a dual process of struggle - one oriented toward the state and dominant insti tutions, the other centered around the daily interac…
Right There with You
■ The article examines how state terrorism operates alongside neoliberal capitalism and has reconfigured labor relations and generated new forms of oppositional politics. Focusing on the struggles of Colombian Coca-Cola workers, the article first considers how neoliberal restructuring and political violence have fragmented social relationships and aggravated inequalities among workers and between them and the Coca-Cola Company. This is a process …
"Proper Women" and City Pleasures
This article explores the manner in which changing class relationships sustain, alter, and recreate the social, cultural, and economic distinctions between women in La Paz. It examines female fashion as a cultural practice that is increasingly contested by women of various class and ethnic backgrounds as they struggle to impose, defend, and define class-based notions of femininity. The article relates their struggles to the selective manipulation…
Socioeconomic status and birth weight
OBJECTIVE: To compare the relation of birth weight with socioeconomic status measured by an area-based measure of material deprivation and by the Registrar General's social class. SETTING: West Midlands Health Region 1991-93. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. METHOD: Birthweight data by enumeration district deciles ranked by Townsend Deprivation Index based on 1991 census data for all live births in the West Midlands Health Region were st…
Threatening Anthropology
Frontier expansion and settlement in lowland Bolivia
This article examines the expansion of cash crop production into the lowland Bolivian frontier and explores the dynamics of class formation that shaped peasant political consciousness. It discusses the factors that moulded local-level response to the conditions created by capitalist development: the process of social differentiation that affected settlers and the relationship between subsistence agriculture and wage labour; the tensions between s…
Another Chance for Peace in Colombia
Computerised linking of medical records
OBJECTIVES--To report on the development of computer assisted methods for linking medical records and record abstracts. DESIGN--The methods include file blocking, to put records in an order which makes searching efficient; matching, which is the process of comparing records to determine whether they do or do not relate to the same person; linkage, which is the process of assembling correctly matched records into a time sequenced composite record …
Anthropology goes to war, again
Debates about the relationship of anthropology to the U.S. national security establishment are not new, and anthropologists are now forced to confront the issue again. Since the 11 September attacks, the U.S. military has stepped up efforts to recruit anthropologists to fight the so-called "war on terror," and a group of self-identified "security anthropologists" have organized for more recognition and legitimation within the American Anthropolog…
Labor and Human Rights
Between History and Histories
The Gender/Sexuality Reader
The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo. eds. New York; Routledge, 1997. 574 pp
Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change
Uneven and combined development in anthropology
In this brief essay, we suggest that contemporary efforts at reworking Leon Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development (UCD) are enriched by an historical ethnographic lens focused on "real people doing real things," which grounds and de-fetishizes the abstractions of capitalist development. We sketch three ways to develop UCD to better apprehend contemporary capitalism: tracing the effects of unevenness and combination within social for…
Commentaries on “Knowledge and Empire
The School of the Americas
Empire, Ethnography and Engagement
My Cocaine Museum
Consumption Intensified
Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil. Maureen O'Dougherty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 262 pp
J. Wilczynski, The Economics of Socialism, London
Frontier expansion and settlement in lowland Bolivia
This article examines the expansion of cash crop production into the lowland Bolivian frontier and explores the dynamics of class formation that shaped peasant political consciousness. It discusses the factors that moulded local-level response to the conditions created by capitalist development: the process of social differentiation that affected settlers and the relationship between subsistence agriculture and wage labour; the tensions between s…
Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change
Painted Faces
“My face grew white on the job, and when I returned to my community, my friends asked me why I was so pale. They said that I looked made up. I had to rub dirt on my face so that I would look browner to them.” Alicia Mamani, domestic servant, La Paz, Bolivia “The minute that you turn your back, [servants] use your clothes, your shoes, your make-up, everything.” Pilar Cordoba, employer, La Paz, Bolivia The institution of female domestic service in …
A Report on the Congressional Fellowship Program, 1988-89 and 1989-90
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Like a Veil to Cover Them
This article explores the connections between class, gender, and evangelical Christian ideology in the formation of new social relationships, as well as in the masking of inequalities and the implicit affirmation of traditional relations of domination between men and women. It argues that women address gender‐ and class‐based problems by using religious ideology to recast the meaning of past events. Through their ties to other believers, they als…
Lucha
Born of the Poor
Born of the Poor: The Latin American Church Since Medellin. Edward L. Cleary. O.P. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990. 200 pp., notes, index. $23.95 (cloth). ISBN 0‐268‐00683‐0
Born of the Poor
Household and Class Relations
Household and Class Relations: Peasants and Landlords in Northern Peru. Carmen Diana Deere. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. 326 pp., tables, maps, appendices, bibliography, index. $42.50 (paper). ISBN 0–520–06675–8
Household and Class Relations
Computerised linking of medical records
OBJECTIVES--To report on the development of computer assisted methods for linking medical records and record abstracts. DESIGN--The methods include file blocking, to put records in an order which makes searching efficient; matching, which is the process of comparing records to determine whether they do or do not relate to the same person; linkage, which is the process of assembling correctly matched records into a time sequenced composite record …
"Proper Women" and City Pleasures
This article explores the manner in which changing class relationships sustain, alter, and recreate the social, cultural, and economic distinctions between women in La Paz. It examines female fashion as a cultural practice that is increasingly contested by women of various class and ethnic backgrounds as they struggle to impose, defend, and define class-based notions of femininity. The article relates their struggles to the selective manipulation…
Mining and Agriculture in Highland Bolivia
Examining Power, Serving the State
This article explores the tensions faced by anthropologists who seek to examine critically the institutional structures of state power in American society, but who find themselves immersed in the bureaucracies of state organizations. It examines the author's experience as an AAA Congressional Fellow and her efforts to write an op-ed editorial about the invasion of Panama for a prominent member of the US Congress. It situates this experience withi…
Power lines
This article examines the changing relationships between the state, NGOs and impoverished residents in El Alto, an impoverished city on the periphery of La Paz. NGOs are understood as nominally private, non‐profit agencies that act as intermediaries between financial donors and local residents and whose function is to implement projects favoring the so‐called popular sectors. In practice, these distinctions are not so clear cut. NGOs are increasi…
Power lines
William Caxton and the Rebellion of 1483
Journal Article William Caxton and the Rebellion of 1483 Get access LOUISE GILL LOUISE GILL University of Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 445, February 1997, Pages 105–118, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.445.105 Published: 01 February 1997
Creating Citizens, Making Men
Relocating Class
■ This article examines the changing life circumstances of former Boli vian tin miners, who, following the closure of state-operated tin mines, settled on the periphery of the Bolivian capital, La Paz. It considers the dynamics that shape class formation and struggle in this impoverished setting. The analysis explores a dual process of struggle - one oriented toward the state and dominant insti tutions, the other centered around the daily interac…
Socioeconomic status and birth weight
OBJECTIVE: To compare the relation of birth weight with socioeconomic status measured by an area-based measure of material deprivation and by the Registrar General's social class. SETTING: West Midlands Health Region 1991-93. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. METHOD: Birthweight data by enumeration district deciles ranked by Townsend Deprivation Index based on 1991 census data for all live births in the West Midlands Health Region were st…
Between History and Histories
The El Mozote Massacre
The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights. Leigh Binford. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.263 pp.We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. Philip Gourevitch. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. 1998. 384 pages
The Gender/Sexuality Reader
The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo. eds. New York; Routledge, 1997. 574 pp
Fear as a Way of Life
Fear as. Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala. Linda Green. New York; Columbia University Press, 1999.213 pp
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