Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics and Indigenous Identity in the Andes by Jeff D. Himpele

Schiller, Naomi

doi:10.1111/j.1548-7458.2010.01050.x

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“…The video is hosted on the website for UNESCO's Latin American unit, Crespial, that has a center in Cuzco, Peru. Unlike other examples of Indigenous-made videos or films that might feature the Indigenous person behind the camera (Himpele, 2007;Turner, 1991), we see a different assertion of agency in Women's Singing from Puna, Potosí. Our interview with Nilda reflects her political activist trajectory, as well as a commitment to what Rachel Lobo might call the "political act of memory building" (2020,19).…”

Section: Archival Lives: Indigenous Audiovisuals In Digital Circulationcontrasting

confidence: 84%

“…The 2011 video—its making, its circulation, its participants—intersected with processes of social archiving as an abundance of videos documenting Otavi's Fandango Festival were produced and circulated. The fandango's increased circulation, as related to a contested heritage bill, activated audiovisual archives and showed how these are shaped by timing, selection, and different publics (see Himpele, 2007, 23). As we pay more attention to digital archives and their activation as counterarchives, we should recognize alternative curatorial processes.…”

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Unsettling the return: Alternative curation and counterarchives

Bigenho,

Stobart

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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In this article, we complicate the notion of sonic return in the context of postmillennial digital media technologies that have transformed how Indigenous people of the Bolivian Andes engage self‐reflectively with their own music and dance practices. We take a capacious approach to the notion of the archive and argue that these media interactions, where people make and circulate their own audiovisual materials, represent a space of counterarchival work. We consider our distinct and changing approaches to sound recordings in our respective fieldwork and highlight how media‐making agency has entered the hands of Indigenous actors. Notable here is a striking preference for the audiovisual over the solely audio, a preference that throws into relief the idea of the sound archive and its future. We point to alternative forms of audiovisual curation that may not be shaped to the ends foreign researchers might imagine, but that nevertheless might lead to more decolonized engagements of the future. We consider a video—created as part of a campaign for women's singing of Potosí to be legally recognized in heritage law—and explore how this seemingly outsider‐focused audiovisual production involved Indigenous people in its making, reception, and recursive recirculation. We approach these issues by drawing on our multidecade and cross‐disciplinary research trajectories in the Bolivian Andes and our more recent collaborative research on heritage lawmaking during the government of Evo Morales (2006–2019).

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Section: Archival Lives: Indigenous Audiovisuals In Digital Circulationcontrasting

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Unsettling the return: Alternative curation and counterarchives

Bigenho,

Stobart

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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“…Rather, we identify people in power and with resources (city planners, regional planners, design professionals, politicians) that, adhering to roles and rules, follow their beliefs and values to address what they believe truly ail the city. Growth actors carry acquisitions of deeply felt attitudes and predilections in fourth-wave neoliberalist days (Harvey, 2019;Himpele, 2008;Wylie, 2019) to become what we can term 'cultured powerbrokers'. Following Gursitsch (2008), situations are both made by people but also come into consideration for them.…”

Section: Dracula Urbanism and The Real-estate Statementioning

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“…A decentred and decline-using city building redux And Jakarta's urbanizing, much like Dracula's 'planetized' operations already described, is a splattered, messy extension spanning the earth. Most obviously, mega developers like Agung Podomoro (the self-proclaimed master of superblock construction) create smart growth's leading edgebold and influential buildingsthat are bolstered by rooting in a key thing, the latest global circuit of culture (Himpele, 2008). With Indonesian president Jokowi (Joko Widodo) easing restrictions on foreign property investment and ownership in 2015 (Regulation 103/ 2015), new growth projects have become more prevalent, artsy and city-shaping.…”

Section: Dracula-itis Againmentioning

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Toward a Dracula urbanism: Smart city building in Flint and Jakarta

Wilson

Wyly

2022

Dialogues in Urban Research

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We study two places experiencing the rise of both the real-estate state and smart city building, Jakarta, Indonesia and Flint, USA. Our core thesis: these real-estate states work through and make a kind of urbanism that we term Dracula urbanism. We identify Dracula urbanism as a deep-reaching, human-punishing unfolding that is simultaneously a state of mind, a mode of institutional operation, a vision of people, one gaze onto growth's true needs and a kind of growth produced. Our Dracula urbanist notion that is seen to engulf real-estate states has four central features. First, the political and economic resources to drive smart city building are secured through ever-thickening parasitic relations, particularly with upper-level sources of power and authority. Second, city building involves unrelenting drives to kill and destroy (not rehabilitate or therapeutize) supposedly deep civic ‘cancers’, such as the poor's presumed anti-civic, morally and culturally deficient dispositions and ways. Third, city building is promoted through strategically deploying the materiality and discursive terrors of decline. Fourth, local real-estate states are decisively integrated into ‘planetary urbanizations’ through circuits of smart-growth capital investment and techno-scientific claims to expertise. All of these, we chronicle, are vintage characteristics of Stoker's rendition of Dracula. The results suggest that the cultural politics of in-your-face revanchism that Neil Smith helped us to see, and is still present in cities such as Flint and Jakarta, is today accompanied by an equally punishing, complicated and adroitly adapting state politics in these places.

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“…To these we can add a growing number of ethnographically grounded accounts of indigeneity, as distributed through Bolivia's increasingly variegated public sphere (e.g. Himpele 2008;Zamorano Villarreal 2017), including overlapping economic and media circuits, and their multiple connections to largely urban popular cultural expressions, festivals and politics.…”

Section: The Indigenous In the Urban?mentioning

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Cholo Politics and Urban Indigenous Self-Fashioning in Bolivia

Albro

2020

Bolivian Studies Journal

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This article reviews recent ethnographic approaches to indigeneity in Bolivia from the global north. It examines some consequences of ethnographic choices to treat indigeneity as primarily a political challenge of power and inclusion, where indigenous identity is understood to be most characteristically expressed in collective terms or through social mobilization. At the same time, it also assesses a complementary ethnographic focus upon legacies of neoliberalism, as a major context for situating contemporary indigenous projects in Bolivia, specifically, ethnographic contrasts drawn between political indigeneity and the liberal subject. Finally, this article offers an account of indigenous sense-making for the urban landscape of Quillacollo and explores the relevance of indigenous claims as integral to that small city’s “cholo politics,” and as an alternative means of understanding the construction of indigenous subjects.

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Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics and Indigenous Identity in the Andes by Jeff D. Himpele

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Unsettling the return: Alternative curation and counterarchives

Unsettling the return: Alternative curation and counterarchives

Toward a Dracula urbanism: Smart city building in Flint and Jakarta

Cholo Politics and Urban Indigenous Self-Fashioning in Bolivia

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