Indigenous Reparations and the Turn of the “Multicultural Turn” at La Guajira, Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X.962Keywords:
multiculturalism, reparations, social policy, ethnicity, WayuuAbstract
Although violent victimizations of indigenous peoples in Colombia have remained constant over centuries, never before have the conditions of being “victims” and “vulnerable” had such an institutional place as in the last ten years. This paper analyzes the ways in which discourses on victimhood and vulnerability resulting from the armed conflict in La Guajira have affected the shaping of citizenship and ethnic subjectivities. Although multiculturalism retains a preeminent role, self-determination turns into forms of submission to the State in the process of visibilization and inclusion within the social policies aimed at the indigenous victims of the armed conflict. The paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out with an organization of Wayúu women in Northern Colombia, between 2007 and 2008.
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Graham, Laura R. 2002. “How Should an Indian Speak? Amazonian Indians and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the Global Public Sphere”. En Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America, editado por K. B. Warren y J. Jackson, 181-228. Austin: University of Texas Press.
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Guss, David M. 2006. “The Gran Poder and the Reconquest of La Paz”. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 11 (2): 294-328.
Hale, Charles. 2004. “Rethinking Indigenous Politics in the Era of the ‘Indio Permitido’”. Nacla Report on the Americas 38 (2): 16-22.
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Redfield, Peter. 2008. “Doctors Without Borders and the Moral Economy of Pharmaceuticals”. En Human Rights in Crisis, editado por Alice Bullard, 129-144. Hampshire, Inglaterra: Ashgate.
Rowse, Tim. 2008. “Indigenous Culture: The Politics of Vulnerability and Survival”. En The sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis, editado por Tony Bennett y John Frow, 406-426. Los Ángeles: Sage.
Sanders, James. 2003. “‘Belonging to the Great Granadan Family’: Partisan Struggle and the Construction of Indigenous Identity and Politics in Southwestern Colombia, 1849-1890”. En Race and Nation in Modern Latin America, editado por Nancy Appelbaum, Anne S. MacPherson y Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, 56-86. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
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Van Cott, Donna Lee. 2000. The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Wade, Peter. 2005. “Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience”. Journal of Latin American Studies 37: 239-257.
Walsh, Martha. 2008. “Gendering International Justice: Progress and Pitfalls at International Criminal Tribunals”. En Gendered Peace. Women’s Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation, editado por D. Pankhurst, 31-64. Nueva York: Routledge.
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Warren, Kay Barbara. 1998. Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: PanMaya Activism in Guatemala. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Wilson, Richard A. 2001. The Politics of Truth and Reconcialiation in South Africa. Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wilson, Richard A. 2003. “Anthropological Studies of National Reconciliation Processes”. Anthropological Theory 3 (3): 367-387.
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Jaramillo, P. (2011). Indigenous Reparations and the Turn of the “Multicultural Turn” at La Guajira, Colombia. Revista Colombiana De Antropología, 47(2), 151–171. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X.962
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