The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the
Americas
Multiculturalism has shaped identity politics in the Americas over the past decades, as illustrated by politics of recognition, affirmative action, and increasing numbers of internationally recognized cultural productions by members of ethnic minorities. Hinting at postcolonial legacies in political rhetoric and practice, multiculturalism has also served as a driving force behind social movements in the Americas. Nevertheless, in current academic discussions and public debates on migration, globalization and identity politics, concepts like new ethnicities, ethnic groupism, creolization, hybridity, mestizaje, diasporas, and post-ethnicity articulate positionings that are profoundly changing our understanding of multiculturalism. Combining theoretical reflections with case studies the aim of this book is to demonstrate the current dynamics of (post-) multicultural politics in the Americas.
This book was based on a special issue of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.
Olaf Kaltmeier is Professor of Transnational History of the Americas and Executive Director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University.
Sebastian Thies is Professor of Iberoamerican Literature and Cultural Studies at Tbingen University.
Josef Raab is Professor of American Studies at University Duisburg-Essen and President of the International Associations of Inter-American Studies.
The New Dynamics of Identity
Politics in the Americas
Multiculturalism and Beyond
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Josef Raab
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Contents
Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab and Sebastian Thies
Demetrius Eudell
Amos Nascimento
Gisella Daz-Azofeifa
Santiago Bastos
Gunther Dietz
Andrew Canessa
Olaf Kaltmeier and Sebastian Thies
The following chapters were originally published in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (July 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Multiculturalism and Beyond: The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the Americas
Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab and Sebastian Thies
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (July 2012) pp. 103114
Syncretism as a Form of Multicultural Politics: The Interlocation of African-Latin-American Identities in Brazil
Amos Nascimento
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (July 2012) pp. 115136
Paradoxes of Costa Rican Multiculturalism
Gisella Daz-Azofeifa
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (July 2012) pp. 137154
Multicultural Projects in Guatemala: Identity Tensions and Everyday Ideologies Santiago Bastos
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (July 2012) pp. 155172
Diversity Regimes Beyond Multiculturalism? A Reflexive Ethnography of Intercultural Higher Education in Veracruz, Mexico
Gunther Dietz
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (July 2012) pp. 173200
New Indigenous Citizenship in Bolivia: Challenging the Liberal Model of the State and its Subjects
Andrew Canessa
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (July 2012) pp. 201222
Specters of Multiculturalism: Conceptualizing the Field of Identity Politics in the Americas
Olaf Kaltmeier and Sebastian Thies
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (July 2012) pp. 223240
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Santiago Bastos is Professor and senior-researcher at the Center of Research and Superior Studies in Social Anthropology, CIESAS, in Guadalajara, Mexico. From 1988 to 2008 he lived and worked in Guatemala, where he studied the conformation and changes in ethnic dimension of Guatemalan society, with special attention to effects of indigenous struggles. His recent publications include El Movimiento Maya en la Dcada despus de la Paz (co-authored with Roderick Leslie Brett, F&G Editores, 2010) and Multiculturalismo y Futuro en Guatemala, FLACSO Guatemala, 2008).
Andrew Canessa is an Anthropologist at the University of Essex and has worked with Aymara-speaking communities of Bolivia since 1989. He has published extensively on issues of gender, indigeneity, and identity in the Andes. His most recent work is on indigeneity and new models of citizenship. His recent publications include Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life (Duke University Press, 2012) and Hacia un futuro Indgena en Mesoamrica y los Andes: Gnero, Complementariedades y Exclusiones (co-authored with Aida Hernandez Castillo, Abya Yala Press & IWGIA, 2012).
Gisella Daz-Azofeifa is an independent researcher who has been working with indigenous communities and related subjects for the last four years. She holds a Licentiate Degree in Political Sciences from the University of Costa Rica.
Gunther Dietz holds a PhD in Anthropology from Hamburg University and is a Research Professor in Intercultural Studies at Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. He currently serves as Secretary General of the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE). He is the author of La Comunidad Purhpecha es Nuestra Fuerza: Etnicidad, Cultura y Regin en un Movimiento Indgena en Michoacn, Mxico (Ediciones Abya Yala, 1999) and Multiculturalismo, Educacin Intercultural y Derechos Indgenas en las Amricas
