Pandora's Box: The Implications of Social Movements on Development. Lessons from the Lacandona Jungle in Chiapas

Reygadas, Luis; Ramos, Teresa Lopes; Montoya, Guillermo

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“…Focused programmes run by NGOs always translate innovative practices into components of policy that usually depoliticise them and/or mobilise them for political purposes other than those actors involved in these practices (see Reygadas et al, 2009). In the case of indigenous movements, the expansion of NGOs reinforced colonial and dependency practices (Esteves et al, 2009: 7).…”

Section: The Neighbourhood Councils Of El Alto: With and Against Neolmentioning

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The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America

Dinerstein

2015

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Non-governmental public action (NGPA) by and for disadvantaged and marginalised people has become increasingly significant over the past two decades. This new book series is designed to make a fresh and original contribution to the understanding of NGPA. It presents the findings of innovative and policy-relevant research carried out by established and new scholars working in collaboration with researchers across the world. The series is international in scope and includes both theoretical and empirical work.The series marks a departure from previous studies in this area in at least two important respects. First, it goes beyond a singular focus on developmental NGOs or the voluntary sector to include a range of non-governmental public actors such as advocacy networks, campaigns and coalitions, trade unions, peace groups, rights-based groups, cooperatives and social movements. Second, the series is innovative in stimulating a new approach to international comparative research that promotes comparison of the so-called developing world with the so-called developed world, thereby querying the conceptual utility and relevance of categories such as North and South.

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Section: The Neighbourhood Councils Of El Alto: With and Against Neolmentioning

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The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America

Dinerstein

2015

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“…As such, these new interventions have received special attention from an alternative or post‐development perspective. Alternative development emerged as a powerful critique of the developmental paradigm in the 1970s, and prompted the discourse of participatory and people‐centred development (Nederveen Pietersen, 1998; Reygadas et al, 2009). The discourse embraces associative forms of production, sustainable development, economic support of the marginalized through appropriating land and housing, women's and grassroots empowerment, and the revival of ‘the local’ (Escobar, 1992; Santos and Rodriguez Garavito, 2006).…”

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Hope Movements: Naming Mobilization in a Post‐development World

Dinerstein¹,

Deneulin²

2012

Development and Change

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Social mobilizations that are devoted to contesting development and creating alternative economic arrangements conducive to the pursuit of a dignified life have recently sprung up. Not only do they criticize the current state of affairs but they actively seek and experience new ways of living, inspired by what Bloch calls the anticipatory consciousness of the ‘not‐yet‐become’, that is, another reality not yet materialized but which can be already experienced. This article argues that these mobilizations are not adequately captured by the term ‘social movements’. The uniqueness of these mobilizations requires a conceptual and epistemological turn that is able to accommodate the post‐development critique of development as well as their emancipatory dimension. We propose to name them ‘hope movements’ to account for the collective action directed to anticipate, imperfectly, alternative realities that arise from the openness of the present one. We conclude by discussing the political relevance of hope movements for the pursuit of the good life as an alternative to development.

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Mexico’s Ethnic Conflict

Martin

2011

Handbook of Ethnic Conflict

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Pandora's Box: The Implications of Social Movements on Development. Lessons from the Lacandona Jungle in Chiapas

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America

The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America

Hope Movements: Naming Mobilization in a Post‐development World

Mexico’s Ethnic Conflict

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