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Exploring how people from Andean communities seek progress and
social mobility by moving to the cities, Cecilie A~degaard
demonstrates the changing significance of kinship, reciprocity and
ritual in an urban context. Through a focus on peopleAs involvement
in land occupations and local associations, labour and trade,
A~degaard examines the dialectics between popular practices and
neoliberal state policies in processes of urbanization. The making
and un-making of notions of the Indigenous, communal work, and
gender is central in this analysis, and is discussed against the
historical backdrop of the land occupations in Peruvian cities
since the 1930s. Through its close ethnographic description of
everyday life in a new urban neighbourhood, this book reveals how
social and spatial categories and boundaries are continually
negotiated in peopleAs quest for mobility and progress. Cecilie
A~degaard argues that conventional meanings of prosperity and
progress are significantly altered in interaction with Andean
understandings of reciprocity. By combining a unique ethnographic
account with original theoretical arguments, the book provides new
insight into the cultural, cosmological and political dimensions of
mobility, progress and market participation.
Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism,
the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences
actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological
dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism
in South America often focus on wider national and international
politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic
explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds,
revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to
mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or
the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded
in the respective authors' long-standing field research. The
authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation),
consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from
fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural
and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve
localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to ways
of thinking otherwise?
Exploring how people from Andean communities negotiate their
relationship to the dominant Peruvian society, Cecilie Odegaard
demonstrates the changing significance of sociality and ritual in
urban contexts. While the importance of reciprocity and exchange in
people's quest for progress at the margins of society is widely
acknowledged, Odegaard argues that people also understand
prosperity and progress in inherently relational terms, that is, as
dependent on reciprocity and exchange between human beings and with
their animated surroundings. This book examines people's access to
land and markets in contemporary processes of migration, and
discusses this against the historical backdrop of the land
occupations in Peruvian cities since the 1930s. Revealing the
ambiguous spaces for citizenship created for new settlers in the
city, Cecilie Odegaard is concerned with the occult exchanges and
economies that these processes of mobility are often entangled
with. Through an analysis of the everyday lives of people in a new
urban neighbourhood, this book discusses the making and un-making
of notions of the Indigenous, communal work, and gender in
state-society interaction. The combination of a unique ethnographic
account and original theoretical arguments in this book provides
new insight into the cultural, cosmological and political
dimensions of mobility, progress and market participation.
Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism,
the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences
actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological
dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism
in South America often focus on wider national and international
politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic
explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds,
revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to
mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or
the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded
in the respective authors' long-standing field research. The
authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation),
consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from
fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural
and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve
localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to ways
of thinking otherwise?
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