Storytelling Globalization From the Chaco and Beyond

Informationen zum Autor Mario Blaser is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. He is a co-editor of In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects, and Globalization. Klappentext Ethnography of the storytelling practices through which the indigenous Yshiro of Paraguay struggle to produce an alternative reality/world to the so-far dominant type of globalization that is 'modernity writ large.' Zusammenfassung An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development! the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco! and the agendas of scholars and activists. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series viii Map List ix Preface xi Introduction. Globalization and the Struggle for Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise 1 1. Puruhle/Genealogies 1. Laissez-Faire Progress: Invisibilizing the Yrmo 41 2. State-Driven Development: Stabilizing Modernity 63 3. Sustainable Development: Modernity Unravels? 80 2. Porowo/Moralities 4. Enacting the Yrmo 105 5. Taming Differences 126 3. Azle/Translations 6. Translating Neoliberalism 149 7. A World in which Many Worlds (Are Forced to) Fit 171 8. Becoming the Yshiro Nation 188 9. Reality Check 209 Conclusion. Eisheraho/Renewal 227 Acronyms 241 Notes 243 Glossary 257 References 259 Index 283

Product details

• Authors: Mario Blaser, Mario Blaser
• Assisted by: Arturo Escobar (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2010
• EAN: 9780822345305
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4530-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F; New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology