In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization

In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization

Language: English

Pages: 384

ISBN: 1842771930

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Authored as a result of a remarkable collaboration between indigenous people's own leaders, other social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this volume explores what is happening today to indigenous peoples as they are enmeshed, almost inevitably, in the remorseless expansion of the modern economy and development, at the behest of the pressures of the market-place and government. It is particularly timely, given the rise in criticism of free market capitalism generally, as well as of development. The volume seeks to capture the complex, power-laden, often contradictory features of indigenous agency and relationships. It shows how peoples do not just resist or react to the pressures of market and state, but also initiate and sustain "life projects" of their own which embody local history and incorporate plans to improve their social and economic ways of living.

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international advocates on behalf of people affectedby the Pangue and Ralco dams. On 12 December 2002 the OEA court ordered the Chilean government not to allow any further negotiations betweenENDESA and Bío-Bío area residents ‘until the Inter-American Human RightsCourt has adopted a definite position’. The Costa Rica-based court was toconduct an in-depth analysis and issue a final ruling in mid-February 2003.Also on 12 December 2002, ENDESA announced that Nicolasa Quintraman,an elderly Pehuenche

The segment of Ionto’s vision as related above must be read in light of,but not reduced to, the commitments, significance and love Chukchi andtheir Indigenous neighbours attach to animals and reindeer herding as ameaningful form of making a living. There is a tendency in northern Russiastudies to emphasize the material utility and worth of animals, includingreindeer. But the significance of reindeer stretches well beyond considerations of diet (intestines, meat and marrow) and utility (shelter

away for? I wonder ifI was bad or something, losing everything that I know and really love. Bernardsays don’t worry so much, just look after the kids. So I do, just keep them out oftrouble. Kids wander around in the dark around here, drinking and getting into nogood. Sometimes their parents are drinking and their kids are hungry; they come Page 324 to the door for food. I don’t let mine out after dark. It’s hard, people changing,drinking and fighting. Sometimes the young people come here, a

(see Blaser 2003 for an ethnographic analysis of this process).As we will see, the discourses and actions undertaken by the Yshiro leaderswith the aim of creating UCINY show that ‘life projects’ are not comparable to the different visions of development that indigenists struggle about.Since the first meeting, when leaders began to discuss the creation of the Page 61 organization, the issue of the representation of the Indigenous peoples wasat centre stage. However, the discussions were not

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