Black and Green Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands

Name: Black and Green Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands
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ISBN: 9780822344834

ISBN-10: 0822344831

ISBN-13: 9780822344834

Edition: 2009

Authors: Kiran Asher

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InBlack and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for re-conceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She bases her argument on ethnographic analysis of the black social movements that emerged from and interacted with political and economic changes in Colombia's Pacific lowlands, or Chocoacute; region, in the 1990s. The Pacific region had yet to be overrun by drug traffickers, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces in the…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.90" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Abbreviations and Acronyms


Introduction: Black Social Movements and Development in the Making



Afro-Colombian Ethnicity: From Invisibility to the Limelight



"The El Dorado of Modern Times": Economy, Ecology, and Territory



"El Ruido Interno de Comunidades Negras": The Ethno-Cultural Politics of the PCN



"Seeing with the Eyes of Black Women": Gender, Ethnicity, and Development



Displacement, Development, and Afro-Colombian Movements



Transitory Article 55



Law 70 of 1993: Outline and Salient Features


Notes


References


Index