Owners of the sidewalk: security and survival in the informal city
In: Global insecurities
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In: The cultures and practice of violence series
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 118, Heft 1, S. 190-191
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Conflict and society: advances in research, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 182-196
ISSN: 2164-4551
The appearance of effective security making—demonstrated through surveillance, visibility, and ongoing performance—is significant to contemporary sovereign authority in urban spaces characterized by quotidian violence and crime. This article examines La Cancha, Cochabamba, Bolivia's enormous outdoor market, which is policed not by the state but by private security firms that operate as nonstate sovereign actors in the space of the market. The article provides an ethnographic account of one of these firms (the Men in Black), and documents the work of both municipal and national police—all of them distinguished by differently colored uniforms—in the management of crime, administration of justice, and establishment of public order in the market. Sovereignty here is derived through public performance, both violent and nonviolent, through which the Men in Black demonstrate and maintain their sovereign power.
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 116, Heft 4, S. 839-842
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Current anthropology, Band 51, Heft 4, S. 487-517
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Political and legal anthropology review: PoLAR, Band 33, Heft s1, S. 126-142
ISSN: 1555-2934
What does it mean for anthropology to be relevant in the context of an ongoing global war on terror? This article examines the meanings of "security," concentrating on the discipline's engagement with the military and the ways in which the anthropological concept of culture has been deployed in post‐9/11 security campaigns. It argues that while there are many potential pitfalls awaiting the so‐called culture expert in military collaborations, security nevertheless remains an important field to which anthropologists can bring critical scholarly attention and ethical engagement.
In: Political and legal anthropology review: PoLAR, Band 33, Heft s1, S. 181-183
ISSN: 1555-2934
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 210-212
ISSN: 1469-767X
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 210-212
ISSN: 0022-216X
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 210-212
ISSN: 0022-216X
In: Political and legal anthropology review: PoLAR, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 320-322
ISSN: 1555-2934
In: Anthropological quarterly: AQ, Band 75, Heft 3, S. 485-517
ISSN: 1534-1518
Anthropologists writing about "indigenous media" have identified ways in which ethnographic research involving visual technology can affect the cultural identity and political power of ethnographic subjects, providing them with tools to enhance their own identity-building projects. In this essay I contend that ethnographic writing can also be a form of indigenous media, an implement of self-representation for people otherwise marginalized from the national political mainstream. But the efforts of native informants to establish control over the ways in which they will be represented in print can also create desconfianza , a feeling of mistrust and suspicion of the ethnographer among the people being studied. I reflect on the relationship between desconfianza and the politics of ethnographic practice, and the extent to which questions of performance and representation, far from being mere matters of ethical or philosophical interest to anthropologists alone, are in fact deeply implicated in the political and economic survival of the peoples being represented.
In: Political and legal anthropology review: PoLAR, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 161-169
ISSN: 1555-2934
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 102, Heft 3, S. 653-654
ISSN: 1548-1433
Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People. Thomas A. Abercrombie. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 603 pp.