Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement , 2019
This ethnographic study examines post-agrarian aspirations and rural politics in Ecuador. After d... more This ethnographic study examines post-agrarian aspirations and rural politics in Ecuador. After decades of urban outmigration under a neoliberal agrarian order, many rural places have witnessed efforts to develop local tourism economies as a possibility to transcend stigmatised agrarian livelihoods and to (re)constitute communities. We build on anthropological studies of aspiration to explore how visions of post-agrarian futures are shifting the actors, scales and terms of rural politics in the present. Through two case studies, we observe how state actors have come to re-inscribe their role within post-agrarian imaginaries, partially rewriting the terms of state legitimacy in rural places.
This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies o... more This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they often transcended the boundaries of case studies to become important reference works on key aspects of Andean culture: for example, the symbolism and ritual uses of coca in the case of Catherine J. Allen; agricultural rituals and internal social divisions in the case of Peter Gose; social organisation and kinship in the case of Billie Jean Isbell; the use of khipus and concepts of literacy in the case of Frank Salomon; and the management and ritual dimensions of water and irrigation in the case of Ricardo Valderrama and Carmen Escalante. In their chapters the authors revisit their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal aspects...
The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as ... more The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as advances in buen vivir or 'good living'. This paper reports ethnographic research that draws attention to everyday appropriations of state discourses on buen vivir in the Amazon and Andes. Non-state actors in marginalised communities often use state discourses strategically in engagements and negotiations with state actors. We argue that uses of official versions of buen vivir discourse often reflect such strategic appropriations of state idioms, rather than subjective commitment to state-led development and official notions of buen vivir.
Volume edited by Francisco Ferreira on fieldwork in the Andes by several authors from the 1960s o... more Volume edited by Francisco Ferreira on fieldwork in the Andes by several authors from the 1960s onwards.
The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as ... more The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as advances in buen vivir or 'good living'. This paper reports ethnographic research that draws attention to everyday appropriations of state discourses on buen vivir in the Amazon and Andes. Non-state actors in marginalised communities often use state discourses strategically in engagements and negotiations with state actors. We argue that uses of official versions of buen vivir discourse often reflect such strategic appropriations of state idioms, rather than subjective commitment to state-led development and official notions of buen vivir.
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Resumen En contraste con sus vecinos Colombia y Peru, Ecuador ha utilizado los aranceles para reg... more Resumen En contraste con sus vecinos Colombia y Peru, Ecuador ha utilizado los aranceles para regular el flujo de bienes importados de China. En esta investigacion, estoy enfocada en la ropa china y las practicas de negocio y aspiraciones economicas de dos comunidades de comerciantes paralela–uno quichua, el otro chino. Algunos operadores de fabricas textiles nacional se han beneficiado claramente de los aranceles. Sin embargo, desde la crisis fiscal “dolarizacion” de Ecuador de la decada de 2000, muchos comerciantes indigenas se han desplazado a la comercializacion Asia, especialmente los bienes fabricados en China como una tactica para preservar los medios de vida y las comunidades de la diaspora comercial. Con ganancias empujadas a cerca de cero, creditos informales, costumbres durables de la vida comercial y la cortesia profesional han llegado a asumir el papel urgente en la supervivencia de la empresa no solo individual, sino comunidades enteras comerciales. [diaspora, Ecuador, indigenas, mercados populares, migracion]
Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement , 2019
This ethnographic study examines post-agrarian aspirations and rural politics in Ecuador. After d... more This ethnographic study examines post-agrarian aspirations and rural politics in Ecuador. After decades of urban outmigration under a neoliberal agrarian order, many rural places have witnessed efforts to develop local tourism economies as a possibility to transcend stigmatised agrarian livelihoods and to (re)constitute communities. We build on anthropological studies of aspiration to explore how visions of post-agrarian futures are shifting the actors, scales and terms of rural politics in the present. Through two case studies, we observe how state actors have come to re-inscribe their role within post-agrarian imaginaries, partially rewriting the terms of state legitimacy in rural places.
This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies o... more This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they often transcended the boundaries of case studies to become important reference works on key aspects of Andean culture: for example, the symbolism and ritual uses of coca in the case of Catherine J. Allen; agricultural rituals and internal social divisions in the case of Peter Gose; social organisation and kinship in the case of Billie Jean Isbell; the use of khipus and concepts of literacy in the case of Frank Salomon; and the management and ritual dimensions of water and irrigation in the case of Ricardo Valderrama and Carmen Escalante. In their chapters the authors revisit their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal aspects...
The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as ... more The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as advances in buen vivir or 'good living'. This paper reports ethnographic research that draws attention to everyday appropriations of state discourses on buen vivir in the Amazon and Andes. Non-state actors in marginalised communities often use state discourses strategically in engagements and negotiations with state actors. We argue that uses of official versions of buen vivir discourse often reflect such strategic appropriations of state idioms, rather than subjective commitment to state-led development and official notions of buen vivir.
Volume edited by Francisco Ferreira on fieldwork in the Andes by several authors from the 1960s o... more Volume edited by Francisco Ferreira on fieldwork in the Andes by several authors from the 1960s onwards.
The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as ... more The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as advances in buen vivir or 'good living'. This paper reports ethnographic research that draws attention to everyday appropriations of state discourses on buen vivir in the Amazon and Andes. Non-state actors in marginalised communities often use state discourses strategically in engagements and negotiations with state actors. We argue that uses of official versions of buen vivir discourse often reflect such strategic appropriations of state idioms, rather than subjective commitment to state-led development and official notions of buen vivir.
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Resumen En contraste con sus vecinos Colombia y Peru, Ecuador ha utilizado los aranceles para reg... more Resumen En contraste con sus vecinos Colombia y Peru, Ecuador ha utilizado los aranceles para regular el flujo de bienes importados de China. En esta investigacion, estoy enfocada en la ropa china y las practicas de negocio y aspiraciones economicas de dos comunidades de comerciantes paralela–uno quichua, el otro chino. Algunos operadores de fabricas textiles nacional se han beneficiado claramente de los aranceles. Sin embargo, desde la crisis fiscal “dolarizacion” de Ecuador de la decada de 2000, muchos comerciantes indigenas se han desplazado a la comercializacion Asia, especialmente los bienes fabricados en China como una tactica para preservar los medios de vida y las comunidades de la diaspora comercial. Con ganancias empujadas a cerca de cero, creditos informales, costumbres durables de la vida comercial y la cortesia profesional han llegado a asumir el papel urgente en la supervivencia de la empresa no solo individual, sino comunidades enteras comerciales. [diaspora, Ecuador, indigenas, mercados populares, migracion]
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