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The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia
No full textIn 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new “democratic cultural revolution,” Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. In this perceptive new book, Nancy Postero examines the successes and failures that have followed in the ten years since Morales’s election. While the Morales government has made many changes that have benefited Bolivia’s majority indigenous population, it has also consolidated power and reinforced extractivist development models. In the process, indigeneity has been transformed from a site of emancipatory politics to a site of liberal nationstate building. By carefully tracing the political origins and practices of decolonization among activists, government administrators, and ordinary citizens, Postero makes an important contribution to our understanding of the meaning and impact of Bolivia’s indigenous state
The Indigenous State
No full textIn 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new “democratic cultural revolution,” Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. In this perceptive new book, Nancy Postero examines the successes and failures that have followed in the ten years since Morales’s election. While the Morales government has made many changes that have benefited Bolivia’s majority indigenous population, it has also consolidated power and reinforced extractivist development models. In the process, indigeneity has been transformed from a site of emancipatory politics to a site of liberal nationstate building. By carefully tracing the political origins and practices of decolonization among activists, government administrators, and ordinary citizens, Postero makes an important contribution to our understanding of the meaning and impact of Bolivia’s indigenous state
Colonial Potosí: Setting the Stage for Global Capitalist Development
No full textIn the early 1540s, Spanish conquistadores took control of the mineral-rich region surrounding the mountain of Potosí in what is now Bolivia, and in 1545 they officially established the colonial mining center of the same name. Less than one hundred years later, that town grew to be an Imperial City with a population of over 100,000, a figure rivaling the largest European cities. During that same period, it produced between 80 and 90 per cent of the silver coming out of Spanish South America through new and complex industrial production chains (Barragan 2017a, 2018) that were established in the city. The colonial authorities implemented widespread changes in the landscape through environmental engineering and extensive urbanization. Potosí produced wealth that drove the modern economy, shifted the global balance of power, and built the Spanish Empire. Its resources and their exploitation bankrolled the first steps in Europe’s industrial revolution and shaped our classic understandings of development in the modern world (Galeano 1997; Lane 2019).Fil: Egan, Nancy. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Salta. Unidad Ejecutora en Ciencias Sociales Regionales y Humanidades. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Unidad Ejecutora en Ciencias Sociales Regionales y Humanidades; Argentin
Neoliberalism, Interrupted Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America
No full textExamines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses that challenge, reform, and even retrench neoliberalism's hegemony in Latin America.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Editors and Contributors -- 1. Revolution and Retrenchment: Illuminating the Present in Latin America - Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero -- Part 1. The Postneoliberal Challenge -- 2. Bolivia's Challenge to "Colonial Neoliberalism" - Nancy Postero -- 3. Culture and Neoliberal Rationalities in Postneoliberal Venezuela - Sujatha Fernandes -- Part 2. Micropolitics of History and Practice -- 4. "En Minga por el Cauca": Alternative Government in Colombia, 2001- 2003 - David Gow -- 5. Neoliberal Reforms and Protest in Buenos Aires - Marcela Cerrutti and Alejandro Grimson -- 6. "Taken into Account": Democratic Change and Contradiction in Mexico's Third Sector - Analiese M. Richard -- Part 3. Care and Punishment: Biopolitics and Neoliberal Violence -- 7. Neoliberal Reckoning: Ecuador's Truth Commission and the Mythopoetics of Political Violence - Christopher Krupa -- 8. Care and Punishment in Latin America: The Gendered Neoliberalization of the Chilean State - Veronica Schild -- 9. "Yes, We Did!" "¡Sí Se Pudo!": Regime Change and the Transnational Politics of Hope Between the United States and El Salvador - Elana Zilberg -- Postscript: Insurgent Imaginaries and Postneoliberalism in Latin America - Miguel Ángel Contreras Natera -- Notes -- References -- IndexExamines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses that challenge, reform, and even retrench neoliberalism's hegemony in Latin America.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Oral History Interview with Nancy Lieberman, November 8, 2012
No full textInterview with Nancy Lieberman, a sports broadcast journalist. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up in New York, her time on the first women's Olympic basketball team, and her career as a coach, author, and journalist on ESPN
Promoting Adult Learning Through Civil Discourse in the Public Library
No full textThis chapter investigates the adult learning through civil discourse within public library settings. Crucial to the success of a working democracy, the author traces the history of libraries as locations for the development of an engaged and knowledgeable citizenry.This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Kranich, Nancy. "Promoting Adult Learning Through Civil Discourse in the Public Library." New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, no. 127, Fall 2010: 15-24, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ace.377/pdf.Peer reviewe
Can the First Amendment Coexist with Civility? Response to ‘What Is the Role of Law in Promoting Civility? What Are Its Limits?'
No full textRancorous rhetoric has taken over the public square, causing many citizens to retreat from democratic work. Although self-governance and human dignity benefit when citizens express their views, it takes more than diverse voices to make democracy strong. It takes civility--reasoned public discourse where respect, restraint, responsibility, and empathy coexist with free expression so that fellow citizens can hear each other. And it also takes safe spaces—public forums like those in libraries, where communities come together at the intersection of law and civility and strike their own balance between the boundaries and norms of civil discourse.Originally published in Insights on Law & Society
Introduction to the Special Issue on Indigenous and Afrodescendant Movements and Organizations in Latin America: Negotiating, Resisting, Performing and Re-purposing Dominant Categories
Full text linkIn 2018 the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva organized together with Europaeum and Alternautas, the workshop on “Democracy, Indigenous Rights and Ethno-Racial Mobilization: Latin America in Comparative Perspective.” This workshop was part of the “Geneva Democracy Week” organized by the Geneva Chancellery of State to promote dialogue between political institutions, civil society, students and citizens, with a view to strengthening their participation in democratic processes. Our focus on Indigenous and Afrodescendant movements was intended to illuminate the ongoing contributions these populations have made to expanding and redefining democracy. Latin America has been the site of inspiring activism over the last decades, as formerly subaltern populations have challenged the ongoing legacies of colonialism and claimed citizenship rights. We received paper proposals from students of different European universities in Switzerland, England, Germany and Luxemburg and selected nine papers to be discussed at the workshop on the 6th of October at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. The papers received feedback from the workshop conveners, Graziella Moraes, Filipe Calvão and Diego Silva from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, as well as from our special guests Nancy Postero, professor UC San Diego, Ethel Branch, former Attorney General of the Navajo Nation and Karen Ramirez Bóscan, founder of Wayunkerra Indigenous Women’s Initiative in Guajira Colombia, as well as anonymous peer review. Thus, the articles in this special issue of Alternautas are the product of a rich international conversation
Nancy Guthrie
No full textNancy Guthrie, author, Nashville, TN, examines two conversations Jesus had, one with his Father, the other with Paul, and how God feels our pain with us
Deliberative Dialogue: Changing the CD Discourse
No full textThis article provides a brief overview of deliberative dialogue and its useful role in professional development for school librarians.Chapter in Growing Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers (Libraries Unlimited, 2012, pp. 299-302), edited by Debbie Abilock, Kristin Fontichiaro, and Violet H. Harada
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