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Tierras tradicionalmente ocupadas
El libro Tierras tradicionalmente ocupadas presenta la síntesis de una multiplicidad de situaciones concretas referidas a los procesos de territorialización diferenciados, que conciernen tanto al Sur del Brasil, como al Nordeste y a la Amazonia. Considerando que estamos viviendo un tiempo en donde el saber en acción de los agentes sociales a la orden del día parece estar al frente de cualquier posibilidad de interpretación, sólo un trabajo que reflexione sobre estos procesos sociales a partir de la consideración de la acción de los sujetos y de una práctica antropológica comprometida podría producir un estudio coherente con la situación actual. El libro analiza situaciones concretas con un refinamiento teórico que no recurre a modelos interpretativos rígidos ni a amarras metodológicas. Al contrario, son las situaciones mismas las que le han impuesto al investigador su forma interpretativa.
Constellations of Inequality
Introduction: relaunching Alcântara -- Mimetic convergence and complementary hierarchy -- Alcântara in space and time -- Interpreting an explosion -- Expertise and inequality -- Racialization and race-based law -- The making of race and class -- Space at the edge of the Amazon -- Conclusion: space and utopia
Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society
Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society identifies the immediate and remote reasons for the Balaiada revolt in Maranhão, Brazil, analyzing the special characteristics of the region that favored the development of a relatively independent peasantry within and around the cotton, rice, cassava, and cattle estates. The book explores the demography of Maranhão and patterns of land ownership and documents the rapid degradation of the environment by plantation‐based export agriculture. The analysis of various types of coerced and free labor, the oligopolistic structure of the colonial economy, and the key determinants of class and status contextualizes the conflict potential in Maranhão during th...
Beyond the Eagle's Shadow
The dominant tradition in writing about U.S.–Latin American relations during the Cold War views the United States as all-powerful. That perspective, represented in the metaphor “talons of the eagle,” continues to influence much scholarly work down to the present day. The goal of this collection of essays is not to write the United States out of the picture but to explore the ways Latin American governments, groups, companies, organizations, and individuals promoted their own interests and perspectives. The book also challenges the tendency among scholars to see the Cold War as a simple clash of “left” and “right.” In various ways, several essays disassemble those categories and explore the complexities of the Cold War as it was experienced beneath the level of great-power relations.
The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City
The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values. This book charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard.
Deeply Rooted in the Present
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and historical research, this book uses a Brazilian quilombola community (descendants of enslaved Africans) as a case study to explore how memories, knowledge, and experience are transformed into cultural heritage.
Reimagining the Future of Human Rights
This book is the collective effort of participants from Dejusticia’s annual Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates. The talented writers featured here are graduates from previous workshops who came together again in 2018 to explore the intersection between research and activism and what it holds for the future of human rights. The authors in this book question traditional methods and explore new ways and visions of advancing human rights in the troubled context in which we live today. Do the struggles of small-scale miners in Ghana, the use of strategic litigation in Lebanon, and the recognition of the rights of nature in India represent evidence for hope? Or is t...
