Language and Political Subjectivity - Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela

Politics and power are understood as interconnected yet opposed forms of agency that do not exist without each other and depend on transgressions and the upholding of social boundaries. Language and Political Subjectivity is an ethnographic and historical piece of research that considers how Indigenous and diasporic communities, with their political subjectivities, expand over significant sociohistorical changes, debates, and struggles in the transformation of Chilean democracy and Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution. It offers an innovative approach to stancemaking as a rhetorical semiotic process that produces truth, beliefs, and certainties about social realities and relations.

About the author

Juan L. Rodríguez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Product details

• Authors: Miki Makihara, Miki Rodriguez Makihara, Makihara Miki, Juan L. Rodriguez, Juan L Rodríguez, Juan L. Rodríguez
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9781836950356
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-035-6
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); South America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional government, Indigenous people: governance and politics, Political and Economic Anthropology