Pub Date : 2019-05-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501736070-003
{"title":"Introduction: A Transition to Misery","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501736070-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501736070-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146496,"journal":{"name":"The Democracy Development Machine","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123431649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0004
This chapter examines how discourses of capacidad both enabled and constrained Sampedrano desires for democracy. I describe how state agrarian programs trained Sampedranos’ to solicit development projects, navigate the state, and run electoral campaigns, and how, after the transition to democracy, Mayas used discourses of capacidad to legitimate an indigenous right to govern, and eventually took municipal power in the mid 1990s. I describe the developmentalist political vision shared among this coalition, and how in 2003, this coalition splintered, and then lost an election to a less qualified candidate from an authoritarian party, revealing major exclusions in capacidad as a standard for earning rights.
{"title":"The Capacity for Democracy","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines how discourses of capacidad both enabled and constrained Sampedrano desires for democracy. I describe how state agrarian programs trained Sampedranos’ to solicit development projects, navigate the state, and run electoral campaigns, and how, after the transition to democracy, Mayas used discourses of capacidad to legitimate an indigenous right to govern, and eventually took municipal power in the mid 1990s. I describe the developmentalist political vision shared among this coalition, and how in 2003, this coalition splintered, and then lost an election to a less qualified candidate from an authoritarian party, revealing major exclusions in capacidad as a standard for earning rights.","PeriodicalId":146496,"journal":{"name":"The Democracy Development Machine","volume":"232 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123038258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0005
This chapter describes radical pessimism as a neoliberal democratic political affect that combines of radical worldviews with a belief that change is impossible. It begins with the question of how past and present forms of political violence have shaped Mayan conceptions about the limits of democracy and of their own political agency, leading many to “sell out” for personal interest. It documents how Sampedranos retain elements of radical political imaginary that predominated in the region in the 1970s, prior to the extreme state violence of the 1980s, but that routine acts of state violence targeted at social movements that informs engagements with hostile sovereign forces, including authoritarian political parties. The chapter also describes how these political imaginaries are being reconfigured through more recent forms of politics in defense of territory against extractive industries. The conclusion reflects on the possibility of a radical organization of pessimism.
{"title":"Radical Pessimism","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes radical pessimism as a neoliberal democratic political affect that combines of radical worldviews with a belief that change is impossible. It begins with the question of how past and present forms of political violence have shaped Mayan conceptions about the limits of democracy and of their own political agency, leading many to “sell out” for personal interest. It documents how Sampedranos retain elements of radical political imaginary that predominated in the region in the 1970s, prior to the extreme state violence of the 1980s, but that routine acts of state violence targeted at social movements that informs engagements with hostile sovereign forces, including authoritarian political parties. The chapter also describes how these political imaginaries are being reconfigured through more recent forms of politics in defense of territory against extractive industries. The conclusion reflects on the possibility of a radical organization of pessimism.","PeriodicalId":146496,"journal":{"name":"The Democracy Development Machine","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121536960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501736070-006
{"title":"3. The Capacity for Democracy: Transforming Democratic Imaginaries","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501736070-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501736070-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146496,"journal":{"name":"The Democracy Development Machine","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130806244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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