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The Burden of the White Man or How to Decolonize Humanitarian Aid

Arantza Peralta

The disturbing and conflictive relationships of the people of Bogotá with their waters

Ana María Carreira anacarreira@etb.net.co Universidad Nacional de Colombia Abstract: The intention of this text is to demonstrate the separation between the territory (el estar) and the inhabitants (los seres), illustrated in the history of Bogotá from its foundation in 1538 today. The waters are part of the territory, and therefore they generate ways of being. […]

Power, Networks and Ideology of Development

Gustavo Lins Ribeiro gustavor@unb.br Universidade de Brasilia (Brasil) Abstract: “Development” is the economic expansion in love with itself. This means that we need to know the belief system that lies beneath this devotion, as well as the characteristics of the power field that sustains it. The structure and dynamic of each development area are marked […]

“Watchdogs” – Citizenship and Discourses of Development

Jorge Legoas P. cierajol@hermes.ulaval.ca Université Laval, Québec, Canadá Abstract: This article analyzes the discourse of citizenship and development made by the international cooperation network and that is used in NGO and State development projects. From a post-structuralist approach I show that the predominant controlling role of transparency principles and vigilance practices significantly affects the notions […]

Horizons of ethnographic reflection. Insights and strains for anthropological studies in Chile

Noelia Carrasco Henríquez noeliacarrasco@udec.cl Universidad de Concepción, Chile Abstract: An ethnographic approach to private economic sector in a country like Chile could appear obvious for anthropological work. In fact, this is the country that served as a laboratory for designing and testing neoliberal theses, which are the ones critically and massively blamed to “govern world”. Likewise, […]

Anthropocentric and Eurocentric Foundations of Contemporary Poverty and Communication Idea

Abstract: This paper reflects around the treatment given to the concepts of poverty and communication throughout the last 60 years by a number of theories of development existing in the Latin American region within the social sciences. Particularly, we will focus our discussion on how those concepts have inherited an Eurocentric and anthropocentric global power […]

Oil is devil’s feces. Demons, satans and heretics in extractivisms

Eduardo Gudynas, Centro Latinoamericano de Ecología Social (CLAES), Uruguay

Curses, heresies and other miracles of extractivist economy

Alberto Acosta, FLACSO-Ecuador

Theology of extractivisms. An Introduction to Tabula Rasa Nº 24

Eduardo Gudynas, Centro Latinoamericano de Ecología Social (CLAES), Uruguay