Emergent Conversation 27

Commissioned and Edited by Jorge Rodríguez Solórzano

This Emergent Conversation for PoLAR Online brings together a set of contributions by Native and non-Native academics—anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, and scholars in Native American and Indigenous Studies—to discuss shifting relations among Indigenous nations and peoples and contemporary populist movements, parties, and leaders across Latin America. The collection in in two parts.

Part I

Introduction

Jorge Rodríguez Solórzano

 

 

Podcast: Indigenous-State Relations and Populism in the Americas

Daniel P. Gámez, Nohely Guzmán, and Pablo Millalen Lepin

 

 

 

La escenografía del cambio:
el movimiento indígena en el teatro populista

THE SCENOGRAPHY OF CHANGE: THE INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT IN POPULIST THEATRE [ENGLISH TRANSLATION]

Andres F. Ramirez, Maria Violet Medina Quiscue, Francisco Pulido

 

An Otherwise Democracy in the “Other” Santiago de Chile

Nikola García Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

Jorge Rodríguez Solórzano is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Department and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Based on field research conducted in Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Mexico City, Jorge’s dissertation examines how Indigenous state officials implemented a vision of Indigenous autonomy through a rural road building program financed by the Mexican government. Jorge’s dissertation contends that this politics of redistribution has paradoxically intensified the State’s sovereign reach in Indigenous worlds by recruiting Indigenous citizens to manage federal monies and state development. His dissertation attends to the hopes, anxieties and criticisms that Indigenous actors articulated in response to this model of state-funded autonomy and to the new regime of rights that sustained it. By demonstrating how autonomy became tethered to a populist politics of redistribution, Jorge’s dissertation interrogates how one model of administrative-financial autonomy became enshrined into law, thereby subsuming the demands of the 1994 EZLN uprising that sought territorial redistribution and self-determination in opposition to the State.