Countering Development Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination
Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination

Cauca, located in southwestern Colombia and home to the largest indigenous population in the country, is renowned as a site of indigenous mobilization. In 1994, following a destructive earthquake, many families in Cauca were forced to leave their communities of origin and relocate to other areas wit...

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1. Verfasser: Gow, David D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [2008]
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Economic development > Colombia > Cauca (Dept.)
Indians of South America > Commerce > Colombia > Cauca (Dept.)
Indians of South America > Colombia > Cauca (Dept.) > Economic conditions
Indians of South America > Colombia > Cauca (Dept.) > Government relations
Sustainable development > Colombia > Cauca (Dept.)
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-859
DE-860
DE-473
DE-703
DE-739
DE-858
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Zusammenfassung:Cauca, located in southwestern Colombia and home to the largest indigenous population in the country, is renowned as a site of indigenous mobilization. In 1994, following a destructive earthquake, many families in Cauca were forced to leave their communities of origin and relocate to other areas within the province where the state provided them with land and housing. Noting that disasters offer communities the opportunity to remake themselves and their priorities, David D. Gow examines how three different communities established after the earthquake wrestled with conflicting visions of development. He shows how they each countered traditional notions of development by moving beyond a myopic obsession with poverty alleviation to demand that Colombia become more inclusive and treat all of its people as citizens with full rights and responsibilities.Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted annually in Cauca from 1995 through 2002, Gow compares the development plans of the three communities, looking at both the planning processes and the plans themselves. In so doing, he demonstrates that there is no single indigenous approach to development and modernity. He describes differences in how each community defined and employed the concept of culture, how they connected a concern with culture to economic and political reconstruction, and how they sought to assert their own priorities while engaging with the existing development resources at their disposal. Ultimately, Gow argues that the moral vision advanced by the indigenous movement, combined with the growing importance attached to human rights, offers a fruitful way to think about development: less as a process of integration into a rigidly defined modernity than as a critical modernity based on a radical politics of inclusive citizenship
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (315 pages) 12 b&w photos, 1 map
ISBN:9780822388807
DOI:10.1515/9780822388807

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