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Cultures of Politics Politics of Cultures Re Visioning Latin American Social Movements
Politics of Cultures:
Re-visioning Latin American
Social Movements
Sonia E. Alvarez
Evelina Dagnino
Arturo Escobar
Editors
Westview Press
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Cultures of Politics
Politics of Cultures
10 9 8 7
Contents
PART O N E
T H E C U L T U R A L P O L I T I C S OF
C I T I Z E N S H I P , D E M O C R A C Y , AND T H E STATE
v
vi
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ix
145
X
PART F O U R
THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
ON T H E C U L T U R A L A N P T H E P O L I T I C A L
IN LATIN A M E R I C A N SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments
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Chapter One
Introduction:
The Cultural and the Political
in Latin American
Social Movements
SONIA E. ALVAREZ, EVELINA DAG N I N O ,
AND ARTURO ESCOBAR
I
4
practices that:
of I
(Sales 1994; Telles 1994; Oliveira 1994;
of class, race, and gender that typify
vast majority of de jure <
to have rights. As we
Afro-Latin
tal in constructing a new conception of« that claims
rights in society and not just from the state, < the rigid social hi-
erarchies that dictate fixed social places for its (r on the basis of class,
race, an *
26
1994. i da Socicdade Civil c I
; do CJ5BRAP 38:38-52.
Carlos Nelson. 1980. A
ina. 1994a. "Os eai . de uma nova ncxjSo ,
In Anos 90: ed. E.
. 1994b. "On 1 The Story of D. Marlene." In
«Iina»ed, 1994..
, 1995.
1984. The Practice of Everyday Life, Berkeley:
1986. Pwblemas de la i
FLACSQ/CLAEH.
, Joe. 1995, Theorizing Social 1
i Fe, N.Mex.:
, Nancy. 1989. "What's Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of 1
Gender." to Unruly 1
ory, ed. N. 1
1993. "Rethinking the I e: A (
f," In The j
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Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives, ed. J. Keane. London: Verso,
Mouffe, Chantal. 1993. The Return of the Political London: Verso.
Mu^oucah, Paulo Sergio. 1995, "As ONGs: dos Bastidores ao Ccntro do Palco." Revista
Brasileira de Ciincias Sociais 10 (28):35-37.
Mueller, Carol McCIurg. 1992. "Building Social Movement Theory." In Frontiers of Social
Culture, Citizenship,
and Democracy:
Changing Discourses and Practices
of the Latin American Left
EVELINA DAGN1NO
33
TABLE 2.1 'to be
City
Class Urban Social Council
Social Rights:
Conflicts and Negotiations
in Contemporary Brazil
MARIA CELIA PAOLI AND
VERA DA SILVA TELLES
Chapter Four
93
112 Verdnica Schild
114 Verdnka Schild
117
Chapter Five
118
130
lack of
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Chapter Six
141
147
. 1984,:
de la Cruz, Victor. 1984.'
el Istmo." Guchachi' Reza 21:18-24.
1993. "Social. I
x" In,
.H.Campbell et al.1
Indigenous Movements as a
Challenge to the Unified Social
Movement Paradigm
for Guatemala
KAY B. WARREN
165
176 KayB.'
184 KayB,
Indigenous Movements in Guatemala 187
Indigenous Movements in Guatemala 189
190 KayB, Warren
196
Chapter Nine
' of the black population. I will argue that, to their different contexts, intel-
^ scholarly activities in race and race relations in Brazil, served as crucial
220
229
I to the!
political discussions privileged by black activists
that
•of]
I of the 1970s i
.The proximity of the black J
litical parties was very close and intense. In i
lar culture. The move reified "pure" black cultural practices as opposed tothose
237
In the following section I will describe the experience of Grupo Cultural Afro
Reggae in Rio de Janeiro with regard to these issues. I will try to explain how these
movements become delinked from specific places (Gray 1993; Clifford 1988; Hall
239
244 Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha
; that both
the "official
„ i the
corporal'
* per-
of the:
'or"black" in-
fs. If the former privileged the superiority of objectivity
,if they did not agree, qualified the value of objectivity
: it was mediated by a kind of "guilt*
ticity." The weight of always being "native," more or less "black," "whitened," "con-
i C&ar. 1989,
capes do ISER 8 (33):36-42.
ANPOCS.
250 Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha
251
Chapter Ten
They [the police] had changes oft ; one change we said, "let's do
ger had a guard station and we had a
this [the j
is here so 1
1992,253)
ds the itoa
with or co-opted by the state. In histories of UMs, activists often refer to the 1970s
as the age of the caudillo. During this period, UMs were noted for their reformist
lack of democratic structure. They were led by political
powers were almost incontestable. In
up the tendencies of UMs in the early 1970s, Javier Farrera Araujo and
*o ended up becoming caudillos because of their lac^of political con-
co-opted by components of the state" (Farrera Araujo et al. 1982, 30). Activists
in the southern part of Mexico City,
Colonas Movements in Mexico City 273
in Mexico City 275
17 (11):1799-1825.
). n.d."Dofta Jovita; un
lexico City,
Chapter Eleven
278
281
287
INOicS
1. See the essay by Soaia E. Alvarez in this volume; see also Virginia Vargas Valente, "Dis-
jing," Nueva Sociedad 141 (January-February 1996): 43-53.
2. "Draft Platform for Action" (Fourth Conference on Women, United Nations, New
York, May 24,1995),
The Reinvention ofNature (New York: Routledge, 1991), 130,
restricted by it" (6).
23. Delia Zamora, Pill de mujer(Lima: Fomento de la Vida, 1995). Delia Zamora is a
24. Proceso (Mexico City), October 2,1995, p. 32.
(October 1995).
26. Valente, "Disputando."
27. Ibid., 141.
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Chapter Twelve
293
301
Latina y el Caribe.
1995-2001.
iofthe
; to Latin
• 16-18,1994, Section 1C, p. 7.
27. Sifckmk 1995; Friedman 1995; Jelin 1996.
28. Naciones Unidas, Section 7, para, 124a, p. 33.
29. Ibid., para. 126, p. 34.
30. Nilza Iraci, "A Confertocia de Beijing e o Mito da Racial" Fimm 3, no.
32 (September !995):9.
31. See Franco, in this
32. For farther ition of the
. 1995. "Una Mirada del Proceso Hacia Beijing." Revista Bstudos Feminisms 3
(1): 172-179.
Chapter Thirteen
Cybercultural Politics:
Political Activism at a Distance
in a Transnational World
GUSTAVO LINS RIBEIRO
325
337
341
play a. central role in users' evaluations. One environmentalist said that hours be-
fore a preparatory meeting of the UNCED in New York, he could retrieve vital of-
ficial UN information at the last minute that gave him political leverage vis-^-vis
of Brazil's Foreign Ministry. The use of the
351
i A. De Souz
Novo Mapa do Munch: him de Simla e
[1931] 1956. "The Function of an
, 45-64.
1991. The Global City: New York, Uni-
Chapter Fourteen
353
The New Civil Society 373
r political leverage to 1 : PAN? Will the -
1 X 5 ^ o extend their reach.? And does not. the effervescence of
at the same time making it possible for the state to steer clear of what was once
ment that hasto date waged its most effective battles in the realm of publicity. To
what degree does such activity depart from the;
of publicity in. a capitalist societv? Of course, there is no
: be wielded against itself. The production of a CD-ROM, an-
1 in July 1996, will allow interested parties to walk through the ]
: to know the Indians and their plight. But will such a i
on the <
society.
8 oncept points out the limits to action. Even if the PRI were to be
; be altered enough for true democratization to take place in Mexico?
Can i ction in the terrain of civil:
374 George YMke
The New Civil Society 375
of Under-
The New Civil Society 377
378 George YMke
Chapter Fifteen
Final Comments:
Challenges to Cultural Studies
in Latin America
PAULO J. KRISCHKE
,397
421
Chapter Eighteen
Third World or
Planetary Conflicts?
ALBERTO MELUCCI
,397
Chapter Nineteen
,397
About the Editors and Contributors
,397
440 About the Editors and Contributors
George Yudice is professor of American studies and Spanish and Portuguese at New York
University, He is the author of the forthcoming We Are Not the World; Identity and Repre-
sentation in an Age of Global Restructuring (Duke University Press); coeditor with Jean
Franco and Juan Flores of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture;
and author of numerous essays on U.S. and Latin American culture and intellectual dis-
course. He is director of the Inter-American Cultural Studies Network.
Index
,310
,56,99,119,150,180,313,412 ! of social
ACTION, ( ; (APSAs), 22-23
List, 347(nl5) ,16-17
Argentina, 58(nn 6,8), 96,281,285,299,
Africa, 221,224,231,247(n20), 387, 302,304
398(n5) Ailed, }o$6,38
? Noticms, 237-238,241-242 Aristotle, 430-431
ARN.;
,355
,296-297
Art, 157,158,159,161,221,232,361
> Povo, 60(n29)
(APC), 326,
.Louis, 35,43 337-339,348(nn 18,19)
,143,158,272,390,415,420 loritarianism, 10,12,17,19,49,
s of, 418-419 59(n24), 60(n28), 68,81,109,222,
285,364,408
,412
,333
social, 47-48,50,52,53,55,56
,81,89(nl9)
,42,99,107,122,134,136,
151,154,158,159,161,184,202,
203,206,210,211,213,238,263,
272,297,367-368,387,393,395,
425
,104
,397
442
,221,237,248(1132), 337,
247(nn 18,20}
,75-76,119,124
idel
,334,343,347(nl3)
Change, 98,99,336,354,415,423.
,9,44,396,431
231
, 147,157
114(n39)
224,229,233
7, 10,58(nl0), 97,98, 119, 136,
151,166,197-198,209,216(iil4},
244,279,284,287,296,326,327,333,
364,374(n3), 424,425,433
de la Mujer (PRODEMU),
110,lH{n5)
itiago, 94,100,106,108
acional de la Mujer
101-102,104> 105> 106>
107,109,110,113(nn 27,28), 283,
,1-2,10,12,22,23,33,35,47,
48,49, 65,68, 74,78,99,105,107,
120-121,125,136,241,315,326,430
97,111(112)
173,256,265,269
,326,327, 51,81,87(nn 4,5), 89(nl9), j
328-332,337,342,344,346(nn 6, 7), 123,127,128,130-131,134
city councils, 132-133
: (Cairo), 281-282
Conflict, 43,52,66,72,73,74,75-76,79,
85,120,161,210,217(n22), 233,254, ,2,5-10,18,43,50,52,
258,261,295,327,; 213,415,416
393,396,408,423,425, < ,197
,381
,2,3,4-5,35,43,175,353
354-357,359,396,415-420
,417-418
, (Garcia Canclini), 360
446
,10,11,12,14,34,39,40,44,
45,69,84,119,143,165,186,297,
331,357,388,394,413,422,426,
ICOCEI, 149-151,1
> of, 353-374 149,296
,43,178
,213,214 ,80-81
,361-364 ,2,7,13,17,19,33,
,33,34,35,36,37,38,40,42, 45-57,96,142,286,317,336,342,
43,44,45,46,48,50,57,84,178, 364,366,373,381,382,387,405,409,
221-237,359 412,417,419,420,422,426
jpular culture, 3,35,43-44,175,228, imposition of, 391-392
229,237,328,331,360,361,427 institutional issues concerning, 56-57,
69,81,85,120,126,418,433,434
,223,225-226,227,230,
52-56,
,327,346(nn5,9)
tion of, 347(nl 1)
Thirty
political, 417
Dialectics of Sex, '.
, Larry, 11-12,19
,273,312,333,416,431
,45,48,50,86,142,160,179, ,304,307
183,206,207,209,224,226,227,230, , 135,169,170,172,173-174,
236,240,241,245,278,358,387,390, 178,181-182,186,188,225,353,368
393,419,423,430,431
.Seel
214(n4)
J J,24(rt3), 109, 231,
245,397,417-418
T.S.,374(nl)
, 9,12,19,49,146,148,180,185,205,
208,223,287,301,314,329,334,342,
357,360,374(n2), 408,426
327
171
144,145,162(n6)
, 22,24(n3), 40,41,
EZLN, See 59(nl5), 97,373,384,389
iin, 298-302,316,317(n4)
, M. P., 382
143,360,361 ,:
GCAR, See
171
12,47,65,67,70,71,143,155,
157-158,207,227,278,288(n6), 315,
311,314,317
(FWCW), 293,294,304, 309,
311. See c
,1,21,23,72,78,79,197, 19,40,69,417,418
212,284,325,342,380,381,393,394,
397,397(nl), 398(n5), 423 167
Hall, Stuart, 4,24(n3), 206,231,245,416
,415 247{nl3)
279
Harris, David, 416,417-418,420(nl)
Harvey, N„ 393
101,110,122,123,131,135,
12,47-48,53,66,85,143,179,
183,241,297,331
Daniel, 274(n9)
331
issues, 173-174,178,191(nn 38,
43), 205,206,210,270,366,384,
397(nl),407,424
171
: in, 167-169,175,
183,184,185,186,187,191(n43)
70,71,76,121,124,125,182,:
(1994), 191 (n39)
Ide
,13,64,68,70,71,:
,316,353,3!
,155
,53,85
,397
, 152,153,169,171-173,177,
179,183,222,225,248(n25), 358,
359,373-374,424,432,433
5-6,66,97,98,99,110,175,176, ack, 226-227,228,244
180,183,196,197,202,212,232,253,
261,264,368,369,370,374(n2), 385,
387,395,407,413
241,243
incyb 347(nll) ,19,20,37,41,42,52,69,81,1
120,133,178,210,426
i of identity, 230,231,244,245 ..ethnic, 212
, 35,36,43, 57(n2), 147, 148,149, ,74,75,76
183,253,253,273,326,355
net, 326,327,1
11), 356,357,365,372,374,393
, 141-142 sues, 385-389,397,423,431
uple, 86(n2), 146, .363, 375(n4)
> de, 58(nl4), 59(nl9)
, 363, 375(n4)
, 134,150,156,179,181,237,
306,313,314,326,328,329,330,331,
332,336,340,341,342,343,345,423,
Keck,
(IGC), 337,338,343,348(nl7)
stitutional engineering, 119
,327 82-83
55,67,70,71,74, 77-86,
i levels, 327-328.342,346(n3) 127,221,234,:
451
3), 112(nl3), 165,
69,72-73,81,107,410.
in
,4,146,150,155,158,159,160,
166,169,173,174,175,178,183,184,
186-187,230,233,239,278,328,
330-331,355,368,370,393
-in English, 341-342
,9
,6,8,9,11,14,19,176,:
285,405,422
vilian governments in, 99
Internet in, 331
Left in, 33,35,36,41,44,45,49,
112(n8), 141,150,189(n3),353,355,
371,372,
i,217(n22)
, 33,34, 35,36,37,38,112(nl3),
146,147,216(nl4),281,387
,417-418
, 145,146,153,154,156,176,
197,209,214(n4), 220,223,224,225,
231,245,247(nl4), 344,372,427
,9,24(n5), 65,71,78,81,84,98,
99,112(n8), 119,142,143,197,198,
,213,235,329,361
, 64,65,70,71,94,96-99,
135,136,283,285,286,35
372,375(114)
, 107
, 176. See c
,284
,24(11113, 5), 112(nn 13,
,171,187,358,364,386
al i tiom(NGOs),
I 25(B) 17,22,49,70,71,94,99,101,103,
-370,372 104,110,112(08), 128,170,235,241,
,221,234,246(n4), 357,360 242,287,325,326,353,358,363,364,
373,375(nn 5,7)
,231,235,236,237
412
181,182,184
104, 105,4I4(n)
1,335-339,347(n 14)
244,247(nl5)
354
>2,209,210,211,212 ,131,;
211,212,213,214,217(n23), 427 310,312-313,315
. See Needs (NAFTA), 362,365,366,373,
,110,254,257-261, 375(n6), 392
265,267,271,274(n5), 353 Nun, Josl, 35,44,94
practical/strategic, 257-258,260
,65,66,70,73,74,75,76,77, 228, 238,243, 244,246(nl0)
79,80,81-82,83,85,87(n3), 89(nl9), OP. See Budget processes
125,146,153,160,201,; Ortner, S. B„ 383,396
124-125,126,
, 1,14,17,21-23,45,49,
60(n35)> 71 j 93^94 95> 96~99j 104>
5
105,123,182,184,201,279,284,285,
287,304,305,353,357,366,372,391,
397,405,426 i of, 183-184
,367,394 > of, 174-177,216(nl5)
; in,170-171
, 184,185,187
. 174, i90(n28)
454
alitics, 71, 85,120,417
birth of modern, 83
337
i. the political, 386-389,391,398(n7)
,18-21
, 10-14,45,47,51,57,
66,71,72,73,77,80,109,135
atist view of, 36,39
(COP), 129,131-132,134,135
; labor Party (POT), 127
124-134,136
: in, 128,133,136
sin, 121-122
,171,236,329,336
sub| cots j 41-42,45, 57) 66) 67> 75j ,2,4,24(n3), 417,419
122,326,335,336,345,359 Poverty, 21,47,48,53,64,71,102,123,126,
184,284,285,3 362> 4G7» 408,426,
de Hoy (Cojti Cuxil), 170 427
220,223,234,235 dco, 399(nl7)
: of, 178
455
6,7,8,11,18,36,37,42,43,65,69, ism, 22,70,71,169,172,175,180,
81,83,85,120,135,160,183,333, 182,184,185,186,188,222,;
381,390,397 239,240,301,408
49,52,70,123,129,184,186,336,
372,387. See at
172,175
of Latin i
NGOs,294
s> 390,392,393,394,395
76,81,82,97,122,136
81,84,314,344 160,172,173,224,227,229,233,
114(n30) , 284,344,384
ices, 86,121-122,123, 10,41, lll(n5), 153,168,179,
128,131,257,261,263,353
18-21,51,65,76,77,78,79, s, 104,110,181,
81,286,361,362,366,373,387-388,
407,413,417,418,420
265,270
tl 19,133
,9,10,18,75,121,135,
333,;
72,73,74,75 ,5,10,12,20,47,49,50,51,52,
64-65,66,69, 70,75, 86,96,107,110,
344 111,124,136, 150, 166, 173,174,186,
298,316,408,417,422,426,427
ace, 2,12,47,67,205,220,224,278,370 ,51,300,412
vs. class, 178
classification of, 227,246(nl0) institutic i of, 83, 119
racial exceptionalism, 247(nl3) 9,261-262
456
,210-211,213
,123
,77-78,81,83,84-85,
88(nl5), 122, 123,285,353
.See also Civil i
, 155,161,183
liana de, 58(nl4), 59(nl9)
,R.,397(nl)
lange/transformation, 2,6,10,17,
21,35,37,39,42,299,356,373,
375(n8), 412-413. See also Change;
; of, 14-16,20,46-47,68,
,103-110,119,211. See also
sin
;w, 6,316,380,385,397(n2). 405,
410-411,424-425,431,435
457
of, 326,332,336,362,382,
,272,410
i of, 380-397
id the state, 51,120,410,413
udies of, 13-14,385,396,416,417,
419,431-432,434
iccess of, 16
: of (1968), 255,271,361
,19-20,316,419
, 5,37,44,50,59(n24), 109,
357,372,387, 110,167,212,213, i
396
113(n21)
,327,363
jian,346(n9)
,1,36,51,52,55,65,83,113(1118),
122,123,124-125,133,222,266,305,
306,334,373,389,395,397(n4), 413,
,362,364,374
, 39,40,41,44,75,241 s, Vera da Si!va,48,60(n34)
' of, 10,94,96-97,97-98,409, tonality, 211-212,214,381,387,391,
415 395,397(nn 3,4), See also Rights,
,412
,18, 38,41,57,70,72,
73,75,76,77,81,82,85,93,94,
96-99,lll,112(n8), 120,286,361,
383-384,388,416,417
5 of, 167
:on, 258,4I3(nl)
.in, 306,312
L neighborhood associations, 126
t MGOs, 307
Urban (popular) movements (UMs), 48,
53,56,60(n29), 118-121,124,126,
127,136,222,252-273,413(nl)
i, 21,244,325,326-332, > City, 255-257
335,342,358,359,362,370,373,381 iof, 119-120,128,270-271
Seed:
327-328 URNG. See (
ansnational brokering, 375(n7) 1 de
UAMPA. See
,71,79,88(nl4), 284,362,
363,375(n4)
Ungovernability, 363,364
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