Introduction: The Cultural and the Political in Latin American Social Movements

Álvarez, Sonia E.; Dagnino, Evelina; Escobar, Arturo

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“…For Jordan and Weedon, cultural politics engages in the legitimation of social relations as well as their transformation (Alvarez et al, 1998). Cultural politics determine the meanings of social practices and concerned with subjectivity and identity.…”

Section: Latent Political Engagement In the Cultural Structure Of Normentioning

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Regional and communal identity in response to politics, Islamism, and Hindutva in North Malabar

Shayju¹

2019

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This paper aims to address particular dimensions of regional and communal identity, concerning the peculiarities of spatial strategies and cultural locations as well as various inter-and intra-community political interactions. Identities of regions and communities are dynamic and evolving in relation to time and space. This paper is an attempt to address the complexities of the Hindu cultural nationalist Islamist politics. In this paper, the emphasis is on how the contemporary social life and politics of North Malabar appropriate and adopt cultural and political aspects of the past, in the creation of an identity in the present. The focus of this paper is more on latent political engagement and structural components of identity than the directly visible forms of articulations and assertions. Latent aspects of political engagements often associated with structural and cultural elements of regional and local societies directly relate to the ideological and political elements. In North Malabar, ethics of folk art and martial tradition are inseparable from various aspects of the latent political engagement. Elements of courage, heroism, martyrdom, altruism, sacrifice and resistance are integral elements in everyday cultural elements of the region. The daily aspect of political engagement and socialisation reinforce these values in terms of regional and community identity. In North Malabar, the ethics of folk culture, and martial art are not only appropriated in political engagement but also functional as crucial elements in various stages of political socialisation.

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Section: Latent Political Engagement In the Cultural Structure Of Normentioning

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Regional and communal identity in response to politics, Islamism, and Hindutva in North Malabar

Shayju¹

2019

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“…Many black organizations also engaged in the process of creating national and transnational networks, research institutes, and community study groups focused on ethno‐racial issues, to articulate struggles across dispersed and marginalized communities (Dixon ; Paschel and Sawyer ; Telles ). In Colombia (Álvarez, Dagnino, and Escobar ; Wade ), Brazil (Farfán‐Santos ; French ), and along the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (Gordon and Hale ) they also struggled for land rights.…”

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“Cimarronaje Institucional:” Ethno‐racial Legal Status and the Subversive Institutionalization of Afrodescendant Organizations in Bolivarian Venezuela

Ruette-Orihuela

Caballero-Arias

2017

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Resumen Este artículo analiza cómo los activistas del movimiento Afro‐venezolano participan en las instituciones del Estado Bolivariano con el fin de promover agendas en contra de la discriminación racial y en pro del reconocimiento étnico. Con la intensión de trascender los conceptos clásicos de institucionalización, examinamos los logros, ambigüedades y desafíos que experimentan estos actores en su incorporación a las diferentes esferas institucionales. Proponemos que este proceso identificado por el movimiento como “cimarronaje institucional” abre oportunidades para la creación de nuevos espacios de participación en las instituciones nacionales y locales. Sugerimos que esta práctica política se encuentra moralmente interpelada por una “ética del cimarronaje” —un marco de acción colectiva que sintetiza ideologías de resistencia histórica ante la exclusión racial y social. Argumentamos que la institucionalización no necesariamente conlleva a la paralización de la acción colectiva, sino también representa una fase más en la relación entre los movimientos sociales y el Estado.

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“…This argument might still be contested on the grounds that I am fitting indigenous and peasants' struggles into a class framework where they do not belong, or that their identity is not one of class, but related instead to culture or ethnicity (for example, see Alvarez, Dagnino, & Escobar 1998;Laclau & Mouffe 1985). However, it is possible to assert that these social movements have a class character-insofar as their struggles involve resisting dispossession and/or exploitation from capital-without reducing them only or even primarily to class.…”

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Reification and Alternatives to Development

Bueckert¹

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This thesis evaluates the post-development concept of "alternatives to development" from the perspectives of critical political economy and Western Marxism. Post-development theorists have long critiqued how development depoliticizes social life and suppresses alternative political imaginations. In formulating alternatives to this mode of social change, they emphasize place-based politics of cultural difference, premised on notions of coloniality, economic difference and autonomy. As I demonstrate, these theoretical positions are limiting, for they unnecessarily close off post-development theory from potential strategies and allies. Alternatively, I argue that the Marxist concept of reification provides an alternative analytical framework which transcends these limitations. By highlighting the role of capitalist class relations in shaping subjectivity and limiting political imagination, the concept of reification thereby illuminates the conditions which make thinking and acting "otherwise" materially possible, while expanding the scope for social action beyond the margins of the capitalist world system.ii

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Introduction: The Cultural and the Political in Latin American Social Movements

Cited by 60 publications

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Regional and communal identity in response to politics, Islamism, and Hindutva in North Malabar

Regional and communal identity in response to politics, Islamism, and Hindutva in North Malabar

“Cimarronaje Institucional:” Ethno‐racial Legal Status and the Subversive Institutionalization of Afrodescendant Organizations in Bolivarian Venezuela

Reification and Alternatives to Development

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