Shamans’ Pragmatic Gendered Negotiations with Mapuche Resistance Movements and Chilean Political Authorities

Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella

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“…Thus, one can observe the power behind official representations of Garifuna cultural difference, and the ways in which their culture has been repackaged by the tourism industry for the consumption of tourists and the majority mestizo population. This is one level of multicultural inclusion, but in the context of the massive protests organized in opposition to the coup, Garifuna assertions of ethnic difference defy these politically vapid representations: “Unlike participants in the national agenda, who appropriate indigenous traditions as agentless symbols of indigeneity, members of resistance movements actively create relations between past and present, spirits and land claims [in the struggle for] autonomy” (Bacigalupo : 516). In this vein, the performance of cultural difference is not merely a reference to a folkloric past, but a complex negotiation of political subjectivity in relation to diverse social sectors, including oppositional movements.…”

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Radicalize Multiculturalism? Garifuna Activism and the Double‐Bind of Participation in Postcoup Honduras

Loperena

2016

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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R e s u m e n En este artículo analizo la resistencia Garífuna ante el golpe de estado contra Manuel Rosales Zelaya. Me baso en entrevistas y conversaciones con activistas y observación participante en las protestas contra el golpe de estado en Tegucigalpa con el fin de explorar el significado y los objetivos de la resistencia cultural Garífuna en el periodo post-golpe. Argumento que la etnopolítica sirve para reforzar y desafiar las representaciones dominantes de la subjetividad folklórica Garífuna, las cuales son ampliamente diseminadas por la propaganda turística y la construcción de la identidad nacional por políticas multiculturales. También subrayo la forma en que los activistas Garífunas articularon sus demandas para la autonomía y los derechos territoriales con los objetivos del movimiento de resistencia nacional. Participación Garífuna en la Resistencia brindó la oportunidad de ser reconocidos como sujetos políticos-no como objetosy para aspirar a otra Honduras dentro de este movimiento multiétnico emergente. A b s t r a c tThis article analyzes Garifuna resistance to the 2009 coup against Manuel Rosales Zelaya. It draws on interviews and informal conversations with activists and participant observation in the anticoup protests in Tegucigalpa in order to explore the significance and aims of Garifuna cultural resistance in the postcoup period. Garifuna ethnopolitics reproduce and challenge dominant representations of Garifuna folkloric subjectivity, which are widely disseminated through tourism propaganda and statist constructions of multicultural national identity. The article also highlights the ways in which Garifuna activists articulated longstanding demands for territorial autonomy and land rights with the goals of the national resistance movement. For many, participation in the Resistance Radicalize Multiculturalism 517 518J o u r n a l o f L a t i n A m e r i c a n a n d C a r i b b e a n A n t h r o p o l o g y 522 J o u r n a l o f L a t i n A m e r i c a n a n d C a r i b b e a n A n t h r o p o l o g y

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Radicalize Multiculturalism? Garifuna Activism and the Double‐Bind of Participation in Postcoup Honduras

Loperena

2016

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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“…It is, for the most part, embedded in their discourses of identity. In some cases, as Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (2004) has shown, Mapuche political leaders and organisations have promoted images of virile Mapuche warriors as icons of Chilean patriarchal nationalism. They have used these images to try to force their way into the nation-state, to demand full inclusion within it.…”

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From Araucanian warriors to Mapuche terrorists: contesting discourses of gender, race, and nation in modern Chile (1810–2010)

Crow

2014

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies

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and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol, UKThis article explores the complex, shifting intersections between gender, racial, and national identities in modern Chile. Focusing on the figure of the Araucanian warrior who famously defeated the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century, it draws readers' attention to four transformative periods between the first declaration of Chilean independence and the bicentennial celebrations of that independence, and examines the contesting notions of masculinity that emerged in such contexts. Firstly, it analyses the late nineteenth-century liberal State's "civilising" discourse, which was imbued with imperial racist concepts of masculinity; secondly, a protest mestizo masculinity that emerged through the writings of Nicolás Palacios in the early twentieth century; thirdly, a revolutionary masculinity that was exalted by various actors during the Popular Unity government (1970 -3); and finally, multicultural, neo-liberal configurations of masculinity in post-dictatorship Chile. It shows how the masculine ideals of physique (strength, impressive build, virility) and behaviour (independence, intelligence, bravery, spirit of adventure) projected onto the noble warrior of old have existed in tension with disparaging attitudes towards contemporary Mapuche demanding respect for their rights. It also underscores the multiple, creative ways in which Mapuche intellectuals and political leaders have engaged with dominant discourses of gender, race and nation in republican Chile.

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“…In many places, indigenous women literally and figuratively wear the outward markers of culture: clothing, jewelry, language and traditional knowledge (Smith 1995). As such, they are often used as symbols of authenticity by other (mostly male) indigenous leaders and non‐indigenous politicians (Bacigalupo 2004; Nelson 1999) when they are not seen as wild and barbaric emblems of the past (Richards 2007). Indigenous women may use these expectations to their advantage, in order to be seen as authentic representatives of indigenous movements (S. Warren 2009).…”

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Latin American Identity Politics: Redefining Citizenship

Warren

2012

Sociology Compass

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Identity-based social movements and politics have played an important role in Latin America since the 1970s and continue to do so today. In this essay, I argue that this form of politics -as it has taken shape across Latin America -has been defined by its intersectionality. I trace the ways in which neoliberalism has facilitated a certain kind of identity politics while limiting more radical political claims. I argue that identity politics have contributed to the current ''pink tide'' sweeping across the continent and are in continual dialogue with these new leftist governments as they redefine what it means to be citizen and what the relationship between state and citizen should be.

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Shamans’ Pragmatic Gendered Negotiations with Mapuche Resistance Movements and Chilean Political Authorities

Cited by 16 publications

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Radicalize Multiculturalism? Garifuna Activism and the Double‐Bind of Participation in Postcoup Honduras

Radicalize Multiculturalism? Garifuna Activism and the Double‐Bind of Participation in Postcoup Honduras

From Araucanian warriors to Mapuche terrorists: contesting discourses of gender, race, and nation in modern Chile (1810–2010)

Latin American Identity Politics: Redefining Citizenship

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