Indigenous Development in the Andes

Culture, Power, and Transnationalism

Autor: Andolina, Robert; Laurie, Nina; Radcliffe, Sarah A.
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822345237
eISBN Pdf: 9780822391067
Lugar de publicación: Durham , Estados Unidos
Año de publicación digital: 2009
Mes: Diciembre
Páginas: 360
DDC: 307.1/40890098
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

As indigenous peoples in Latin America have achieved greater prominence and power, international agencies have attempted to incorporate the agendas of indigenous movements into development policymaking and project implementation. Transnational networks and policies centered on ethnically aware development paradigms have emerged with the goal of supporting indigenous cultures while enabling indigenous peoples to access the ostensible benefits of economic globalization and institutionalized participation. Focused on Bolivia and Ecuador, Indigenous Development in the Andes is a nuanced examination of the complexities involved in designing and executing “culturally appropriate” development agendas. Robert Andolina, Nina Laurie, and Sarah A. Radcliffe illuminate a web of relations among indigenous villagers, social movement leaders, government officials, NGO workers, and staff of multilateral agencies such as the World Bank.

The authors argue that this reconfiguration of development policy and practice permits Ecuadorian and Bolivian indigenous groups to renegotiate their relationship to development as subjects who contribute and participate. Yet it also recasts indigenous peoples and their cultures as objects of intervention and largely fails to address fundamental concerns of indigenous movements, including racism, national inequalities, and international dependencies. Andean indigenous peoples are less marginalized, but they face ongoing dilemmas of identity and agency as their fields of action cross national boundaries and overlap with powerful institutions. Focusing on the encounters of indigenous peoples with international development as they negotiate issues related to land, water, professionalization, and gender, Indigenous Development in the Andes offers a comprehensive analysis of the diverse consequences of neoliberal development, and it underscores crucial questions about globalization, governance, cultural identity, and social movements.

Contents
List of Maps and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Indigenous Development in the Andes
1. Development, Transnational Networks, and Indigenous Politics
2. Development-with-Identity: Social Capital and Andean Culture
3. Development in Place: Ethnic Culture in the Transnational Local
4. Neoliberalisms, Transnational Water Politics, and Indigenous People
5. Transnational Professionalization of Indigenous Actors and Knowledge
6. Gender, Transnationalism, and Cultures of Development
Conclusion: Transnationalism, Development, and Culture in Theory and Practice
Appendix 1: Methodology and Research Design
Appendix 2: Development-Agency Initiatives for Andean Indigenous Peoples, 1990–2002
Appendix 3: Professional Biographies of Teachers in Interculturalism
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index