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

Miki Makihara is Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She is the co-editor of Consequences of Contact (Oxford University Press, 2007).

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
• Release: 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 > Ethnology > Ethnology; 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