Dignity for the Voiceless: Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context

Published by Berghahn Books 2014

Dignity for the Voiceless

Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context

Edited by: Ton Salman , Salvador Martí i Puig and Gemma van der Haar

Volume 103 in the series CEDLA Latin America Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382935

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About this book

Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed during his fieldwork but also enjoyed theoretical debate. A distrust of power led him not only to attempt to understand “people without voice” but to work alongside them so they could discover and find their own voice. Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem Assies’s best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.

Author / Editor information

Ton Salman has worked on grassroots organizations, citizenship and democratization processes in Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia and is Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the VU University of Amsterdam.

Salvador Martí i Puig has done research on the Nicaraguan revolution and Central American and Mexican politics and social movements. At present he is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Salamanca and member of CIDOB-Barcelona.

Gemma van der Haar is Assistant Professor at the chair group Sociology of Development and Change/Disaster Studies at Wageningen University. She is a development sociologist interested in social practice in conflict and postconflict settings. She has worked extensively on Chiapas (Mexico).

Ton Salman has worked on grassroots organizations, citizenship and democratization processes in Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia and is Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the VU University of Amsterdam.

Reviews

“This is a fascinating body of work…I was most impressed by his balance of "hard" political-science analysis and the softer socio-cultural interpretations and by the balance of theory and applied work (scholarship speaking to real world contemporary problems).” · Edward Fischer, Vanderbilt University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Geert Banck Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Gemma van der Haar, Salvador Martí i Puig and Ton Salman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I (Urban) Social Movements in Latin America
Introduction Geert Banck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter 1. Of Structured Moves and Moving Structures: An Overview of Theoretical Perspectives on Social Movements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter 2. Urban Social Movements, Democratization, and Democracy in Brazil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Part II Agrarian Issues
Introduction Cristóbal Kay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 3. The Agrarian Question in Peru: Some Observations on the Roads of Capital Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter 4. From Rubber Estate to Simple Commodity Production: Agrarian Struggles in the Northern Bolivian Amazon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Part III Indigenous (Land) Rights
Introduction André J. Hoekema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 5. Self-Determination and the “New Partnership”: The Politics of Indigenous Peoples and States Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chapter 6. Indian Justice in the Andes: Re-rooting or Re-routing? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Part IV Ethnicity and Citizenship
Introduction Salvador Martí i Puig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Chapter 7. The Limits of State Reform and Multiculturalism in Latin America: Contemporary Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Chapter 8. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Indigenous Peoples and Autonomies in Latin America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Part V. Political Developments in Bolivia
Introduction Ton Salman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Chapter 9. David versus Goliath in Cochabamba: Water Rights, Neoliberalism, and the Revival of Social Protest in Bolivia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Chapter 10. Neoliberalism and the Reemergence of Ethnopolitics in Bolivia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Bibliography Willem Assies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 348
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Development Studies

eBook

Published: June 1, 2014
ISBN: 9781782382935