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Author | : Fernando Coronil |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478004592 |
In The Fernando Coronil Reader Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions. Consisting of work written between 1991 and 2011, this posthumously published collection includes Coronil's landmark essays “Beyond Occidentalism” and “The Future in Question” as well as two chapters from his unfinished book manuscript, "Crude Matters." Taken together, the essays highlight his deep concern with the Global South, Latin American state formation, theories of nature, empire, and postcolonialism, and anthrohistory as an intellectual and ethical approach. Presenting a cross section of Coronil's oeuvre, this volume cements his legacy as one of the most innovative critical social thinkers of his generation.
Author | : Gilbert Michael Joseph |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822320999 |
Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.
Author | : Edward Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Ethnohistory |
ISBN | : 9780472051359 |
Interdisciplinary work between anthropology and history has taken diverse expressions. Yet it has developed with more coherence since the 1980s. Through a critical and contemporary engagement with this wave of scholarship, this challenges readers to think of work at the crossroads of anthropology and history as transdisciplinary and anthrohistorical, moving beyond a partial integration of the disciplines as it critically evaluates their assumptions and trajectories.
Author | : Fernando Coronil |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1997-11-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226116013 |
In 1935, after the death of dictator General Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter and began to establish what today is South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. Endowed with the power of state oil wealth, successive presidents appeared as transcendent figures who could magically transform Venezuela into a modern nation. During the 1974-78 oil boom, dazzling development projects promised finally to effect this transformation. Yet now the state must struggle to appease its foreign creditors, counter a declining economy, and contain a discontented citizenry. In critical dialogue with contemporary social theory, Fernando Coronil examines key transformations in Venezuela's polity, culture, and economy, recasting theories of development and highlighting the relevance of these processes for other postcolonial nations. The result is a timely and compelling historical ethnography of political power at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary reflections on modernity and the state.
Author | : Juan Luis Rodriguez |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1350115762 |
Exploring the ways in which the development of linguistic practices helped expand national politics in remote, rural areas of Venezuela, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta situates language as a mediating force in the creation of the 'magical state'. Focusing on the Waraos speakers of the Orinoco Delta, this book explores center–periphery dynamics in Venezuela through an innovative linguistic anthropological lens. Using a semiotic framework informed by concepts of 'transduction' and 'translation', this book combines ethnographic and historical evidence to analyze the ideological mediation and linguistic practices involved in managing a multi-ethnic citizenry in Venezuela. Juan Luis Rodriguez shows how indigenous populations participate in the formation and contestation of state power through daily practices and the use of different speech genres, emphasising the performative and semiotic work required to produce revolutionary subjects. Establishing the centrality of language and semiosis in the constitution of authority and political power, this book moves away from seeing revolution in solely economic or ideological terms. Through the collision between Warao and Spanish, it highlights how language ideologies can exclude or integrate indigenous populations in the public sphere and how they were transformed by Hugo Chavez' revolutionary government to promote loyalty to the regime.
Author | : Lisa Blackmore |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2017-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822982366 |
In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies—from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumerculture—reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.
Author | : Neil Lazarus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2004-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521534185 |
Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.
Author | : Fernando Coronil |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472068937 |
An exploration of the often unrecognized violent foundations of modern nations
Author | : Gary Wilder |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2005-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226897680 |
France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics—colonial humanism led by administrative reformers in West Africa and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites. Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state—an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, The French Imperial Nation-State will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes.
Author | : Mabel Moraña |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822341697 |
A state-of-the-art anthology of postcolonial theory and practice in the Latin American context.