Pub Date : 2021-05-27DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2021.1927299
Joseph P. Feldman
The sexual question: a history of prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s, by Drinot, Paulo, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, $31.99 (paperback) Citizenship in the Latin American upper and middle classes: ethnographic perspectives on culture and politics, edited by Montero-Diaz, Fiorella, and Franka Winter, Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, $160.00 (hardback) Deconstruyendo el rombo: Consideraciones sobre la nueva clase media en el Perú, Huber, Ludwig, and Leonor Lamas, Lima, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2017, S/30.00 (paperback) San Felipe: Grupos de clase media se encuentran, by Pereyra, Omar, Lima, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2016, S/40.00 (paperback)
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Pub Date : 2021-05-24DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2021.1915432
Meylin Gonzales Huaman, Graziella Moraes Silva, David Sulmont
ABSTRACT The growing literature that analyzes the production of ethnoracial categories has focused primarily on the role of nation-states, social movements, and transnational trends. The internal institutional debates that influence these processes have received limited attention, and the role of census-takers in particular remains largely unexplored. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 54 census-takers in the 2017 Peruvian National Census, this paper argues that census-takers are influential actors in the production of ethnoracial categories and can be considered street-level bureaucrats. In our study, census-takers’ interpretations of the ethnoracial question and categories emphasized dimensions of race and ethnicity that increased the likelihood of residents to identify as mestizos. These findings suggest that, despite their temporary role, census-takers are important actors in the production of ethnoracial categories in societies where these are contested.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-28DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2021.1918841
Anders Burman
ABSTRACT Since at least the mid-20th century, social movements have been key actors in Bolivian society, causing governments to fall and redrawing the cartographies of power. Recently, a new movement emerged, a middle-class movement that articulated its demands in harsh opposition to the government of former President Evo Morales: an urban environmental movement. In its rhetoric, Morales was un burro (a donkey) and un ignorante (an ignorant man) steering the country towards ecological collapse. Subsequently, the movement played a key role in the social protests that led to Morales’s fall in November 2019. In this paper, I aim to understand why this movement emerged and mobilized during the Morales administration and how colonially conditioned relations of power and contradictory images of the indigenous Other are articulated in this process. I argue that the emergence and mobilization of the movement ought to be understood in relation to: (1) the politically conditioned forms for legitimate political opposition; and (2) the challenge to coloniality implied by the coming to power of subalternized subjects. When the borders of seemingly fixed categories and spaces are blurred, the privileged develop novel ways of making social distinctions. One such way, I argue, is to display a ‘taste for ecology.’
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Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2021.1918843
Justin Perez
ABSTRACT Over the course of the 2010s, one objective of HIV prevention efforts in Peru’s Amazonian region has been to mitigate the adverse effects of discrimination on transgender communities. Some of the technical experts implementing these efforts in the city of Tarapoto referred to ‘cultivating a culture of denouncement’ as a shorthand for this objective. This article juxtaposes two experiences of discrimination and subsequent efforts at seeking redress. While both involve trans women who were denied entry into a nightclub, one case was converted into a successful discrimination grievance while the other case was never formally codified as such. Ethnographic analysis of Yesika’s ‘unsuccessful’ case suggests that the imperative to file formal discrimination grievances as a form of HIV prevention, though intended to mitigate exclusion, paradoxically reinforces ethno-racial hierarchies, obscures the willful inaction of auxiliary municipal police, and subjects those who attempt denouncement to intensified allegations of being ‘scandalous.’ Yesika’s scandalous denouncement thus makes visible how preventing HIV is embedded in existing configurations of ethno-racial, gender, and sexual difference.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-20DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2021.1915445
S. Maia, Bernd Reiter
ABSTRACT In this article we seek to first conceptualize whiteness as racial capital and then apply this conceptualization to analyze how whiteness functions in structuring social space in Salvador, Brazil. This article thus seeks to put into conversation different bodies of literature, namely race and racialization, critical whiteness studies, class analysis, gender analysis, and territorial analysis. In other words, we seek to provide an intersectional territorialization of how race, class, status, and gender work together to structure urban living space in general and in private, middle-class condominiums in particular. We do so by focusing on the intersection between whiteness and belonging to the middle to upper-middle classes and the mechanisms by which the approach to a white identity functions as a factor of racial capital and socioeconomic mobility.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2020.1866255
Wuendy Armenta, Erika Carcaño
ABSTRACT En los territorios de la Sierra Norte de Puebla, principalmente habitados por indígenas nahuas y totonacas, confluyen procesos de diversificación biológica, lingüística y agrícola que se manifiestan en actividades económicas, políticas y sociales cuyos signos y significados comunitarios imparten características muy específicas a la región. Tales procesos y actividades han propiciado una defensa ardua de los territorios indígenas frente a los retos que implica la expansión capitalista, destacándose la importancia de la generación de valores de uso por encima de los valores de cambio. El conocimiento del territorio del municipio de Cuetzalan del Progreso y la organización activa de sus habitantes, principalmente los indígenas nahuas, han sido fundamentales para consolidar proyectos de permanencia y transformación que promueven alternativas al sistema capitalista.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2021.1889108
B. Davies
J. Cell Biol. 2021 Vol. 220 No. 8 e20210207007022021c Rockefeller University Press Correction: Bro1 stimulates Vps4 to promote intralumenal vesicle formation during multivesicular body biogenesis Chun-Che Tseng, Shirley Dean, Brian A. Davies, Ishara F. Azmi, Natalya Pashkova, Johanna A. Payne, Jennifer Staffenhagen, Matt West, Robert C. Piper, Greg Odorizzi, and David J. Katzmann Vol. 220, No. 8 | 10.1083/jcb.202102070 | June 23, 2021
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2021.1889118
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2020.1850173
E. Navarrete
ABSTRACT This article examines how the process of indigenous autonomy that began in Cherán (in the Mexican state of Michoacán) on 15 April 2011 managed to reverse the regime of violence and dispossession to which the town had been subjected as a result of the incursions of organized crime. We propose to understand this situation as a contemporary expression of multifaceted dispossession organized in pursuit of natural resources found in the forests of the Purhépecha Plateau through the historical deployment of diverse appropriation mechanisms by government and capitalist entities operating throughout the area – dynamics which have fragmented communal production logic and ethnic frameworks in Cherán and other surrounding communities. From our perspective, the antagonistic nature of this autonomy experience in the face of such power structures and their long-standing modalities lies in the possibility to mobilize economic and political initiatives – insubordinate to capitalism – through the organization of communal relations of production, the promotion of communitarian labor, and the creation of use values with the objective of satisfying common necessities.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2021.1877876
S. Mingorría
ABSTRACT The Maya-Q’eqchi’ are the people that occupy the most territory in Guatemala and that historically, like other indigenous peoples, have resisted multiple waves of dispossession through ‘communitarian weavings’ and by maintaining their sacred relationship with the land and maize. In this article, I analyze how and why temporary and long-lasting ‘agrarian commons’ are created and reproduced as part of the communitarian weavings of the Maya-Q’eqchi’ in the Polochic Valley, Guatemala. I show how the reproduction of the Maya-Q’eqchi’ agrarian commons has been, and still is today, the basis of resistance to the new wave of dispossession caused by the expansion of sugarcane and oil palm monocultures owned by oligarchic families of German descent. Despite the commons being the reproduction of a form of struggle characteristic of the Maya-Q’eqchi’, there are multiple differences of functioning and structure of the agrarian commons between territories inhabited by the Maya-Q’eqchi’, as well as within the same territory. These differences are conditioned by the different identities reconfigured by history and by socio-economic and environmental dynamics, as well as by the structure and operation of the commons itself.
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