Suchergebnisse

Laissez-faire progress : invisibilizing the Yrmo -- State-driven development : stabilizing modernity -- Sustainable development : modernity unravels? -- Enacting the Yrmo -- Taming differences -- Translating neoliberalism -- A world in which many worlds (are forced to) fit -- Becoming the Yshiro nation -- Reality check -- Eisheraho/renewal.

In this article I will argue that the problem posed by environmental conflicts is political-conceptual (all in one word), and in the absence of a better term I will call it the problem of rational policy. Indeed, these conflicts call into question what is generally assumed as rational or reasonable policy, that is to say a policy where the contestants at least agree on what they are contending with. But these conflicts also call into question the conceptual tools with which the social sciences try to capture what is beyond rational politics, and thus it becomes clear how these conceptual tools operate as political tools in another field, that of cosmopolitics. Keywords: ontology; ontological conflicts; cosmopolitics ; En este artículo argumentaré que el problema planteado por los conflictos medioambientales es politicoconceptual (todo en una palabra), y a falta de un término mejor lo llamaré el problema de la política racional. En efecto, estos conflictos ponen en cuestión lo que generalmente se asume como política racional o razonable, es decir una política donde los contendientes al menos están de acuerdo sobre lo que están contendiendo. Pero estos conflictos también ponen en cuestión las herramientas conceptuales con que las ciencias sociales tratan de captar lo que está más allá de la política racional, y así se hace evidente cómo estas herramientas conceptuales operan como herramientas políticas en otro campo, el de la cosmopolítica. Palabras clave: ontología; conflictos ontológicos; cosmopolítica

ABSTRACT  Various misunderstandings and conflicts associated with attempts to integrate Indigenous Knowledges (IK) into development and conservation agendas have been analyzed from both political economy and political ecology frameworks. With their own particular inflections, and in addition to their focus on issues of power, both frameworks tend to see what occurs in these settings as involving different epistemologies, meaning that misunderstandings and conflicts occur between different and complexly interested perspectives on, or ways of knowing, the world. Analyzing the conflicts surrounding the creation of a hunting program that enrolled the participation of the Yshiro people of Paraguay, in this article I develop a different kind of analysis, one inspired by an emerging framework that I tentatively call "political ontology." I argue that, from this perspective, these kinds of conflicts emerge as being about the continuous enactment, stabilization, and protection of different and asymmetrically connected ontologies. [Keywords: political ontology, multinaturalism, multiculturalism, Paraguay, Indigenous peoples]

The article presents an analysis of the "normative innovation" development that is consistent with Bourdieu's theory of practice rather than with the work of Robert Jackson. The author begins with a discussion of Jackson's sovereignty games, alternative approaches to sovereignty, & the origins of the Third World. He then examines changes in the sovereignty game resulting from globalization prior to the Rio Summit of 1992, including reorganization of the world economy, the roles of states vs quasi states, & cultural homogenization. Sustainable development in Third World nations has been a key issue since the 1980s. The author warns that success of the late sovereignty game may prove economically harmful to societies outside the West. J. R. Callahan

This article explores how the knowledge practices of some academic-intellectuals are shifting in such a way as to signal a radical departure from the "traditional" role that academic-intellectuals have had in Latin America. This re-direction is part of a much larger process, namely, the gradual rejection of the modern project by increasingly larger sectors of the Latin American population, and their ongoing efforts to bring about "worlds and knowledges otherwise." In effect, some of the social movements and patterns of mobilization that have become highly visible in Latin America at the turn of the 21st century are probing the modern project-including established knowledge practices of academic-intellectuals-according to expectations, logics and standards other than the ones that have dominated for the last two centuries or more. In particular, the article suggests how these avenues, once opened by social movements, local intellectuals and other sites of knowledge production regarding the intellectual-political project in Latin America, have productively contaminated the dominant regime of power/knowledge (the "lettered city") that has been in place since colonial times. A focus on three cases where this contamination is currently taking place points to possible directions in which a reconfiguration of the dominant regime of power/knowledge might proceed. These developments include the relative equalization of diverse knowledge practices through the proliferation of sites of encounter between them, but also a disposition to allow for the contamination of academic-intellectuals' knowledge practices by the insurrectional movements' non-modern knowledge practices.

Indigenous peoples today are enmeshed in the expanding modern economy, subject to the pressures of both market and government. This book takes indigenous peoples as actors, not victims, as its starting point in analysing this interaction. It assembles a rich diversity of statements, case studies and wider thematic explorations, primarily from North America, and particularly the Cree, the Haudenausaunee (Iroquois) and Chippewa-Ojibwe peoples who straddle the US/Canadian border, but also from South America and the former Soviet Union. It explores the complex relationships between indigenous peop