Week

Structuring Theme

Readings

1

Introduction: what a social movement is and what it is not

** Diani, M. (1992): The concept of social movement. The Sociological Review, 40(1): 1–25

2

Concepts, theories and methods

**Goodwin, J. (2001): Why emotions matter. In Passionate Politics : Emotions and Social Movements (pp. 1–26). The University of Chicago Press.

** Gledhill, J. (1994): Society against the modern state?: social movements, cultural politics, gender politics. In Power and its disguises : anthropological perspectives on politics (pp. 179–206). Pluto Press.

3

Concepts, theories and methods

** Yashar, D. J. (2001): Questions, approaches and cases. In Contesting Citizenship in Latin America : The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge (pp. 3–30). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

4

Indigenous subjects, indigenous objects?

** Ramos, Alcida Rita (1994): “The hyperreal Indian”. Critique of Anthropology 14(2): 153-171.

**Turner, Terry (1995): “Neoliberal ecopolitics and indigenous peoples: the Kayapó, the ‘Rainforest Harvest’ and the Body Shop”. Yale F & ES Bulletin, 98: 113-127.

5

Indigenous movements, state politics and Latin America's "Pink Tide": the case of Bolivia

** Nash, June (1992): “Interpreting social movements: Bolivian resistance to economic conditions imposed by the international Monetary Fund”. American Ethnologist, 19(2): 275-293.

**McNeish, Andrew (2013): “Extraction, protest and indigeneity in Bolivia: the TIPNIS effect. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 8(2): 221-242.

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Indigenous movements, state politics and Latin America's "Pink Tide": the case of Bolivia

**  Fuentes, Federico (2014): “‘Bad left government’ versus ‘good left social movements’? Creative tensions within Bolivia’s process of change”. In Steve Ellner (ed) Latin America’s radical left: challenges and complexities of political power in the twenty-first century. Lanham (Maryland): Rowman & Littlefield.

** Postero, Nancy (2017): The indigenous state: race, politics, and performance in plurinational Bolivia. Oakland: University of California Press. READ Chapter 6: "From indigeneity to economic liberation", pp. 137-157.

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Indigenous movements, state politics and Latin America's "Pink Tide": the case of Bolivia

**  Anthias, P. (2018): Indigenous Peoples and the New Extraction: From Territorial Rights to Hydrocarbon Citizenship in the Bolivian Chaco. Latin American Perspectives, 45(5): 136–153

** Nash, June (1993): We eat the mines and the mines eat us: dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines. New York: Columbia University Press. READ Chapter 9, "Community and class consciousness", pp. 310-334.

8

Indigenous movements, state politics and Latin America's "Pink Tide": the case of Ecuador

** Becker, M. (2011). Correa, indigenous movements, and the writing of a new constitution in Ecuador. Latin American Perspectives, 38(1): 47-62.

** Dosh, P., & Kligerman, N. (2009). Correa vs. social movements: showdown in Ecuador. NACLA Report on the Americas, 42(5): 21-24.

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Indigenous movements, state politics and Latin America's "Pink Tide": the case of Ecuador

** Lalander, R., M. Lembke and P. Ospina Peralta (2019): " Political economy of state-indigenous liaisons: Ecuador in times of Alianza PAIS". Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe / European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 108: 193-220

**  Vallejo, M. C., Burbano, R., Falconí, F., & Larrea, C. (2015). Leaving oil underground in Ecuador: The Yasuní-ITT initiative from a multi-criteria perspective. Ecological Economics, 109, 175-185.

10

Indigenous movements, state politics and Latin America's "Pink Tide": the case of Venezuela

**  Van Cott, D. L. (2003). Andean Indigenous Movements and Constitutional Transformation: Venezuela in Comparative Perspective. Latin American Perspectives, 30(1): 49–69.

**  Angosto-Ferrández, L. F. (2017). Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements, and the Legacy of Hugo Chávez’s Governments. Latin American Perspectives, 44(1): 180–198.

11

  Indigenous movements, state politics and Latin America's "Pink Tide": global debates

** Bunten, Alexis (2011): “A call for attention to Indigenous Capitalisms”. New Proposals, 5(1): 60-71.

** Angosto-Ferrández, Luis (2015): Venezuela Reframed. London: Zed Books [Chapter 7]

12

Recapitulations and final debate: indigenous movements in Latin America

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