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Double-Edged Counter-Narratives: Cosmology and Indigenous Rights in the Bolivian Andes

In English

Författare

  • Anders Burman

Redaktör

  • Ingrid Karlsson
  • Kristina Röing de Nowina

Summary, in English

This paper looks into indigenous Aymara notions of ‘the strange’ and ‘the proper’ and examines how such notions are articulated in an indigenous criticism of a persistently colonial modernity. Such criticism is double-edged. On the one hand, it is articulated in a mythological idiom referring to conceptions of profound cosmological import and this paper delves into how such criticism is grounded in collective memories of colonialism and contemporary experiences of social inequalities and in comprehensive cosmological dimensions of meaning. On the other hand, such criticism is articulated in a ‘modernist’ judicial idiom referring to the rights of indigenous peoples and this paper scrutinizes the dynamics of a ‘modernist’ international discourse on the rights of indigenous peoples being situated and rendered consistent within cultural and cosmological dimensions of meaning.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

168-175

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Meeting global challenges in research cooperation / Utsikt mot utveckling

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University

Ämne

  • Social and Economic Geography

Nyckelord

  • Aymara
  • Bolivia
  • indigenous peoples' rights
  • cosmology
  • colonialism

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1403-1264