Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950

Nils Jacobsen

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A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse and practice common to the entire region, these state-of-the-art histories show how national and local political cultures depended on specific constellations of power, gender and racial orders, processes of identity formation, and socioeconomic and institutional structures.The contributors foreground the struggles over democracy and citizens' rights as well as notions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class that have been at the forefront of political debates and social movements in the Andes since the waning days of the colonial regime some two hundred years ago. Among the many topics they consider are the significance of the Bourbon reform era to subsequent state-formation projects, the role of race and nation in the work of early-twentieth-century Bolivian intellectuals, the fiscal decentralization campaign in Peru following the devastating War of the Pacific in the late nineteenth century, and the negotiation of the rights of "free men of all colors" in Colombia's Atlantic coast region during the late colonial period. Political Cultures in the Andes includes an essay by the noted Mexicanist Alan Knight in which he considers the value and limits of the concept of political culture and a response to Knight's essay by the volume's editors, Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada. This important collection exemplifies the rich potential of a pragmatic political culture approach to deciphering the processes involved in the formation of historical polities.Contributors. Cristobal Aljovin de Losada, Carlos Contreras, Margarita Garrido, Laura Gotkowitz, Aline Helg, Nils Jacobsen, Alan Knight, Brooke Larson, Mary Roldan, Sergio Serulnikov, Charles F. Walker, Derek Williams

Sujets

• Histoire
• América del Sur
• South America
• History of the Americas
• Andes

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 08 juin 2005
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822386612
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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a book in the series latin america otherwise: languages, empires, nations Series editors: Walter D. Mignolo Irene Silverblatt Sonia Saldívar-Hull

political cultures in the andes 1750 – 1950

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Publication of this work has been supported by a grant from the Research Board of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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The Long and the Short of It: A Pragmatic Perspective on Political Cultures, Especially for the Modern History of the Andes Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada

Is Political Culture Good to Think? Alan Knight

How Interests and Values Seldom Come Alone, or: The Utility of a Pragmatic Perspective on Political Culture Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada

pa rt o n e State- and Nation-Building Projects and Their Limitations

Civilize or Control? The Lingering Impact of the Bourbon Urban Reforms Charles F. Walker

A Break with the Past? Santa Cruz and the Constitution Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada

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‘‘Under the dominion of the indian’’: Rural Mobiliza- tion, the Law, and Revolutionary Nationalism in Bolivia in the ∞Ω∂≠s Laura Gotkowitz

pa rt t w o Ethnicity, Gender, and the Construction of Power: Exclusionary Strategies and the Struggle for Citizenship

‘‘Free Men of All Colors’’ in New Granada: Identity and Obedience before Independence Margarita Garrido

Silencing African Descent: Caribbean Colombia and Early Nation Building, ∞∫∞≠–∞∫≤∫ Aline Helg

The Making of Ecuador’sPueblo Católico, ∞∫∏∞–∞∫π∑ Derek Williams

Redeemed Indians, Barbarized Cholos: Crafting Neocolonial Modernity in Liberal Bolivia, ∞Ω≠≠–∞Ω∞≠ Brooke Larson

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pa rt t h r e e The Local, the Peripheral, and the Network: Redefining the Boundaries of Popular Representation in the Public Arena

Andean Political Imagination in the Late Eighteenth Century Sergio Serulnikov

Public Opinions and Public Spheres in Late-Nineteenth-Century Peru: A Multicolored Web in a Tattered Cloth Nils Jacobsen

The Local Limitations to a National Political Move- ment: Gaitán and Gaitanismo in Antioquia Mary Roldán

Concluding Remarks: Andean Inflections of Latin American Political Cultures Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada

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about the series Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nationsis a crit- ical series. It aims to explore the emergence and consequences of concepts used to define ‘‘Latin America’’ while at the same time exploring the broad interplay of political, economic, and cultural practices that have shaped Latin American worlds. Latin Amer- ica, at the crossroads of competing imperial designs and local responses, has been construed as a geocultural and geopolitical entity since the nineteenth century. This series provides a start- ing point to redefine Latin America as a configuration of politi- cal, linguistic, cultural, and economic intersections that demands a continuous reappraisal of the role of the Americas in history, and of the ongoing process of globalization and the relocation of people and cultures that have characterized Latin America’s ex- perience.Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Na- tionsis a forum that confronts established geocultural construc- tions, that rethinks area studies and disciplinary boundaries, that assesses convictions of the academy and of public policy, and that, correspondingly, demands that the practices through which we produce knowledge and understanding about and from Latin America be subject to rigorous and critical scrutiny. This collection of essays examines the cultural politics of nation-building in the Andes. Comparisons extend across coun- tries—Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia—and across time, from the half century before independence through the middle of the twentieth century. Its focus is on the cultural tensions gen- erated by the extraordinary transformations involved in state- making: in other words, it looks at struggles between and across ethnic groups, genders, and the Andes’ few elite and many sub- altern peoples. We have no comparative studies of this kind which make clear both the significance of the cultural dimensions of power and the varied courses that cultrual politics can take. The volume