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Cauca, located in southwestern Colombia and home to the largest indigenous population in the country, is renowned as a site of indigenous mobilization. In 1994, following a destructive earthquake, many families in Cauca were forced to leave their communities of origin and relocate to other areas within the province where the state provided them with land and housing. Noting that disasters offer communities the opportunity to remake themselves and their priorities, David D. Gow examines how three different communities established after the earthquake wrestled with conflicting visions of development. He shows how they each countered traditional notions of development by moving beyond a myopic obsession with poverty alleviation to demand that Colombia become more inclusive and treat all of its people as citizens with full rights and responsibilities.Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted annually in Cauca from 1995 through 2002, Gow compares the development plans of the three communities, looking at both the planning processes and the plans themselves. In so doing, he demonstrates that there is no single indigenous approach to development and modernity. He describes differences in how each community defined and employed the concept of culture, how they connected a concern with culture to economic and political reconstruction, and how they sought to assert their own priorities while engaging with the existing development resources at their disposal. Ultimately, Gow argues that the moral vision advanced by the indigenous movement, combined with the growing importance attached to human rights, offers a fruitful way to think about development: less as a process of integration into a rigidly defined modernity than as a critical modernity based on a radical politics of inclusive citizenship.

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Sociologie, société et politique

América del Sur

Cultural studies

South America

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	21 mai 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822388807
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Countering Development

Indigenous Modernity and the

MoralImagination

david d. gow

Duke University Press≤Durham and London 2008

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Abbreviations

Introduction:Beyond the Developmental Gaze

More Than an Engaged Fieldnote Collaboration, Dialogue, and Difference

Disaster and Diaspora Discourses of Development and Opportunity

Development Planning Slaves of Modernity or Agents of Change?

Local Knowledge, Different Dreams Planning for the Next Generation

The Nasa of the North and the Tensions of Modernity

Contents

Beyond Development The Continuing Struggle for Peace, Justice, and Inclusion

Conclusion:Countering Development Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination

Notes

Bibliography

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Acknowledgments

Many years ago, I decided to write a book about anthropology and development. I diligently plodded away and sent the ﬁrst three chapters in draft form to a potential publisher, who responded with the rhetori-cal putdown, ‘‘So what else is new?’’ Enraged and somewhat insulted, I gave up on the book but revised the chapters, and each one was ﬁnally published elsewhere. Although molliﬁed, I still thought I had it in me to write a book, so some ﬁfteen years ago, before I became an academic, I decided to try again. This second attempt was more serious: I spent one year writing, a second year revising, and a third year sending the manu-script to potential publishers. The reviewers for the ﬁrst publisher did not, in my view, understand what I was trying to do. The second set of reviewers was, in my opinion, too conservative and failed to appreciate the subtleties of my argument. But the third set was devastating and, I had to agree, right on the mark. The principal lesson I drew from this painful experience was that if I wanted to write a credible book about anthropology and development, I had better go and do some serious, long-term research in the ﬁeld. This book is the result of that realization. The research was conducted primarily during the summers from 1995 to 2002 in several rural communities in Cauca, Colombia, as well as the city of Popayán, the provincial capital, and included a six-month stint in the ﬁeld in 2000. In the initial years, the research was supported by grants from the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (icanh) and Colciencias, the Colombian scientiﬁc research agency, ﬁrst for an assessment of the Nasa of Tierradentro displaced and reset-tled after a devastating earthquake in 1994, and then for a team project on new social movements. For their support and the opportunity to participate, I thank María Victoria Uribe, then director oficanh; Claudia Steiner, then director of social anthropology aticanh; and