Alegoría agraria y futuros globales

https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X37"Solo dos fuerzas son esencialmente nacionales y portadoras del futuro: el proletariado y los campesinos”, escribió a principios del siglo pasado el teórico político Antonio Gramsci (1968, 51). En el siglo XX, los obreros y campesinos se constituyeron en las categorías básicas para pensar la política. Sin embargo, en el siglo XXI ambas han desaparecido de la discusión pública; no se mencionan pero orientan por doquier tanto la política pública como la investigación académica. Los tropos a través de los cuales las conocemos han calado como “hechos” bien conocidos sobre la vida social urbana y rural. Aparecen en la forma de estadísticas, anécdotas y lugares comunes, y son explicados como “realidades sociales”. Sin embargo, estas realidades están moldeadas por las preguntas que hacemos y por las maneras en que narramos la historia. Los campesinos y los obreros son figuras alegóricas cuyas historias todavía nos acompañan. Este ensayo examina las alegorías que dan forma al campesino. Para hacer más claras las historias del campesinado, las comparo con la recientemente renovada alegoría de la tribu. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X3

The production of a cause for activism in Argentina:Labour organization in call centers

This paper focuses on activist labor organizing in call centers in Argentina. Following a strong tradition in anthropology that has debated the nature of resistance, it discusses previous explanations for labor organizing in call centers, critiquing the common assumption that labor conditions, work processes, and the relations that take place on the shop floor constitute the seed from which forms of resistance, protest, or activism progressively emerge. Instead, this paper describes the relations, practices, and tensions through which multiple actors came together to turn call center working conditions into a cause for political action in Argentina and the collaborations that made that process possible. Based on fieldwork with call center activists between 2012 and 2013, this paper reconstructs the forms of collective organization that established the problem of poor working conditions in call centers as a cause for political action.Fil: Wolanski, Sandra Ileana. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

"We have no voice for that" : Land Rights, Power, and Gender in Rural Sierra Leone

Acknowledgements I wish to thank the participants in the Gender and Land Governance Conference at Utrecht University in January 2013 for helpful comments and suggestions. Funding I would like to thank the Faculty of Management at Radboud University Nijmegen for funding the six months of fieldwork on which this article is based.Peer reviewedPostprin

Heritage designation and scale: a World Heritage case study of the Ningaloo Coast

© 2015 Tod Jones, Roy Jones and Michael Hughes As heritage research has engaged with a greater plurality of heritage practices, scale has emerged as an important concept in Heritage Studies, albeit relatively narrowly defined as hierarchical levels (household, local, national, etcetera). This paper argues for a definition of scale in heritage research that incorporates size (geographical scale), level (vertical scale) and relation (an understanding that scale is constituted through dynamic relationships in specific contexts). The paper utilises this definition of scale to analyse heritage designation first through consideration of changing World Heritage processes, and then through a case study of the world heritage designation of the Ningaloo Coast region in Western Australia. Three key findings are: both scale and heritage gain appeal because they are abstractions, and gain definition through the spatial politics of interrelationships within specific situations; the spatial politics of heritage designation comes into focus through attention to those configurations of size, level and relation that are invoked and enabled in heritage processes; and researchers choice to analyse or ignore particular scales and scalar politics are political decisions. Utilising scale as size, level and relation enables analyses that move beyond heritage to the spatial politics through which all heritage is constituted

Di Bawah Bayang-Bayang Ratu Intan: Proses Marjinalisasi pada Masyarakat Terasing

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Healing boundaries in south Kalimantan

In the Meratus Mountains of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, a number of intersecting discourses on the body compete to clarify and legitimize health practices and curing techniques. Meratus Dayak shamans cure through chants that metaphorically open and expand social and somatic boundaries; they open up the pores to let in healthy cosmic flows and to remove intrusive foreign objects caused by a patient's narrow-focused definition of self-interest and personal space. In contrast, neighboring Banjar Muslims fortify their boundaries against debilitating intrusions--like poisoned winds and poisoned foods--and messy extrusions--like the spilled blood of vampire's mouths and women's vaginas. In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable. The contrasts, and the combinations, of these two curing systems highlight the internal logic of each as well as the social conditions of their continuing practice.curing practices shamanism Indonesia ethnicity