Publicaciones de 2018
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil.
Autores: Alves, Jaime. (2018). Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press.
The Anti-Black City reveals the violent and racist ideologies that underlie state fantasies of order and urban peace in modern Brazil. Illustrating how “governing through death” has become the dominant means for managing and controlling ethnic populations in the neoliberal state, Jaime Amparo Alves shows that these tactics only lead to more marginalization, criminality, and violence.
"En la Sucursal del Cielo (In The Branch of Paradise): Geographies of Privilege and Black Social Suffering in Cali, Colombia."
Autores: Alves, Jaime and Aurora Vergara-Figueroa. In: Kwame Dixon and Ollie A. Johnson III, eds. Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America. Routledge, 2018. Pp. 183- 210
This chapter argues that the pigmentocracy is spatially coded in Cali's uneven geographies of opportunities and social suffering. It considers the role of racism in the making of Santiago de Cali/Colombia. The chapter also argues that although it does not act independently, race plays a central role in defining access to education, health, employment and the right to life itself. While analysis recognizes a growing literature on race and urban inequalities in Latin America, it also joins some recent calls for further investigation on how 'pigmentocracy' comes into play in societies where racial boundaries seem to be blurred. While the city is celebrated in salsa lyrics and, in the annual Petronio Alvarez festival, the near absence of Blacks in spaces of privilege and their overconcentration in neighborhoods plagued by unemployment, Cali may continue to be called 'the branch of paradise', but for Blacks, it is yet another hell.
Etnografía comprometida en contextos de conflicto armado: lecciones de Bellavista, Bojayá - Chocó y Bahía Málaga - Valle del Cauca - Colombia
Autores: Velásquez Prestán, M., Escobar García, N., & Vergara Figueroa, A. (2018). Anthropologica del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, 36(41).
El propósito de este artículo es responder a la pregunta qué implica realizar una etnografía comprometida en contextos de conflicto armado. Las autoras describen sus experiencias etnográficas, de casi una década, en las comunidades de Bellavista, cabecera municipal del municipio de Bojayá en el departamento del Chocó y Bahia Málaga- Valle del Cauca en Colombia. En el artículo se concluye que una etnografía comprometida, en contextos de conflicto armado, debería ser colaborativa desarrollando de relaciones de largo plazo con las comunidades en las que se trabaja.
From Populist to Institutionalist Politics: Political Cultures of Protest in Contemporary Andean Bolivia Tathagatan Ravindran
Social movements and acts of protest have played significant roles in charting the path of Bolivian history. Massive waves of protest against neoliberalism led to the overthrow of two presidents from office and culminated in the victory of Evo Morales. The stability of the Morales government stands in stark contrast to the chronic political instability of the neoliberal era.
