Pub Date : 1999-07-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962647
A. Forbes
This paper reflects on the ways in which “local” identity became an important basis of legitimacy in the organization of opposition to the Arun dam in Nepal. Large projects such as dams have multiple effects over space and time so that there are many locales that can constitute the proper domain of the “local” voice. Looking only for the most strictly local privileges place over politics and implies that physical boundaries are impermeable. This paper suggests shifting analysis from a search for the legitimate “local” to an understanding of the processes by which different identity claims are employed by various agents to achieve different strategic ends.
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Pub Date : 1999-07-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962646
J. Jackson
The current situation in Colombia's Vaupes region involves a complicated mosaic of various change agents, colonists, and indigenous communities. This paper discusses the role of the anthropologist investigating ethnic nationalism in such a setting, asking questions about: (a) the best position to take with respect to helping local communities carve out geographical and cultural space for themselves; (b) how best to help Indian organizations, when requested, understand the costs and benefits of proposed development projects; (c) how best to analyze, write about, and interact with local indigenous organizations and the communities they represent when different factions see things differently; and (d) in such cases, who constitutes a concerned anthropologist's constituency? The general issue of what the role of anthropology should be in such highly politicized situations is also considered.
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Pub Date : 1999-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962638
Floya Anthias
This paper explores contemporary approaches to identity within modernity with reference to the influential recent work of Anthony Giddens (1991, 1994) and recent debates on hybridity and diaspora developed within what may be termed a postmodern framework. Unlike Giddens’ focus on the unitary self of high modernity, whose political project is self‐actualization, and unlike the focus on cultural social forms found in debates on diaspora and hybridity, I argue that social divisions lie at the heart of modern societies. The social divisions of gender, ethnicity, “race,” and class must therefore be prime concerns in sociology because they lie at the very heart of the modern social order. They are central in terms of constructions of identity and otherness and in terms of producing differentiated and complex social outcomes for individuals and groups (Anthias 1998a).
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Pub Date : 1999-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962639
A. Avakian
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Pub Date : 1999-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962634
N. Schiller, Louis Mazzari
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Pub Date : 1999-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962637
Sieve Striffler
From 1934 to 1962, the United Fruit Company owned and operated Hacienda Tenguel, an immense banana plantation in Ecuador's southern coast. In an effort to control the working‐class of Tenguel, United Fruit implemented a system of plantation management that was rooted in the support and manipulation of gendered institutions and practices. In the end, the system backfired and the workers invaded the entire property, using the same sets of gendered relationships, rights, and identities that the company had developed in order to produce a docile labor force. In contrast, the current system of contract farming, backed by the state, has made it impossible to adopt the identity of “worker” in a more subjective and political sense. Plantations, now severed from the daily life of the family and community, are no longer sites where a politically meaningful sense of class identity is forged. In examining this process of restructuring, this essay explores the complex and changing relationships between political strug...
从1934年到1962年，联合水果公司(United Fruit Company)拥有并经营着厄瓜多尔南部海岸的一个巨大的香蕉种植园——腾圭尔庄园(Hacienda Tenguel)。为了控制腾圭尔的工人阶级，联合果品公司实施了一套种植园管理系统，该系统植根于对性别制度和实践的支持和操纵。最终，这一制度适得其反，工人们利用公司为了生产温顺的劳动力而制定的相同的性别关系、权利和身份，侵犯了整个财产。相比之下，目前由国家支持的合同农业制度，使得人们不可能在更主观和政治的意义上接受“工人”的身份。种植园现在与家庭和社区的日常生活相分离，不再是塑造政治上有意义的阶级身份感的场所。在考察这一重组过程时，本文探讨了政治斗争与政治斗争之间复杂而不断变化的关系。
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Pub Date : 1999-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962636
Caitrin Lynch
In the Sri Lankan garment industry the term “good girls” refers to moral character and industrial productivity: a good girl both embodies Sinhala Buddhist traditions and is an efficient and productive factory worker. The “good girl” concept symbolizes a conjuncture of nationalist and capitalist gender ideals during this time of ethnic conflict and industrial development in the country. Although the women workers agree with many of the gendered characterizations implied by the term “good girls,” they do not uncritically follow nationalist and capitalist moral scripts. Rather, they mobilize the good girl identity for advantages inside and outside the factory. This essay brings together an account of the ways in which gender is configured in relation to discourses of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism and practices of capitalism in Sri Lanka with an analysis of how female village garment workers make these discourses and practices meaningful in their own lives.
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Pub Date : 1999-06-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962635
Sarah England
This paper is an exploration of the relations between the politics of identity and the socio‐economic and political processes of the current era of globalization. Using ethnographic material from the transnational grassroots organizations of the Garinagu—an Afro‐Indigenous population living in transnational communities between Central America and the US—I show the multiple ways that they articulate their identity between and among the tropes of “autocthony,” “blackness,” “Hispanic,” “diaspora,” and “nation.” This construction and negotiation of identity is intimately connected to the negotiation of rights vis‐a‐vis nation‐states and international political bodies, where ideologies of race, ethnicity, nation, and citizenship carry with them different implications for rights and belonging. I argue that the complexities of this case point to the uneven processes of globalization, within which the power to define the ideological terrain of economic and political struggles is still profoundly unequal.
{"title":"Negotiating race and place in the Garifuna Diaspora: Identity formation and transnational grassroots politics in New York City and Honduras","authors":"Sarah England","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962635","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an exploration of the relations between the politics of identity and the socio‐economic and political processes of the current era of globalization. Using ethnographic material from the transnational grassroots organizations of the Garinagu—an Afro‐Indigenous population living in transnational communities between Central America and the US—I show the multiple ways that they articulate their identity between and among the tropes of “autocthony,” “blackness,” “Hispanic,” “diaspora,” and “nation.” This construction and negotiation of identity is intimately connected to the negotiation of rights vis‐a‐vis nation‐states and international political bodies, where ideologies of race, ethnicity, nation, and citizenship carry with them different implications for rights and belonging. I argue that the complexities of this case point to the uneven processes of globalization, within which the power to define the ideological terrain of economic and political struggles is still profoundly unequal.","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81647559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1999-04-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962631
Caroline B. Brettell
Changing Identities: Vietnamese Americans 1975–1995. James M. Freeman. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995, 141pp From the Workers’ State to the Golden State: Jews from the Former Soviet Union in California. Steven J. Gold. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995, 138pp New Pioneers in the Heartland: Hmong Life in Wisconsin. Jo Ann Koltyk. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998, 146pp From the Ganges to the Hudson: Indian Immigrants in New York City. Johanna Lessinger. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995, 166pp Salvadorans In Suburbia: Symbiosis and Conflict. Sarah J. Mahler. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995, 137pp An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City. Maxine I. Margolis. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998, 141pp Changes and Conflicts: Koreans Immigrant Families in New York. Pyong Gap Min. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998, 133pp A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States. Patricia R. Pessar. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995, 98pp Pride Against Prejudice: Haitians in the United States. Alex Stepick. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 199...
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Pub Date : 1999-04-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962629
D. Wells
This paper explores the relationship among political action, gender identities, and the post‐colonial nation‐building project in Trinidad and Tobago. Specifically, it discusses the role of the Women's Political Platform during the 1995 General Elections. It shows how this gender‐specific group's focus on issues re‐framed the historical relationship between ethnicity and politics in this setting. Finally, it suggests why women in Trinidad and Tobago are singularly positioned to “redye” the nation.
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