Contested Ethnicities: New Pathways, New Challenges

Authors

  • Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
  • Andrea Silva-Tapia
  • Sebastian Garbe
  • María Cárdenas
  • Andrea Sempertegui

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.20.2020.75.207-232

Keywords:

Ethnicity, Violence, Resistance, Guardia Indígena y Cimarrona, Pueblo Mapuche, Mujeres Amazónicas

Abstract

Taking examples from Chile, Colombia and Ecuador, the following section analyzes the challenges, potentialities and ambivalences that the concept of ethnicity as a social category unfolds in practice. The examples show that although ethnicity is a modern colonial category that homogenizes and racializes non-“western” populations, it can also be used strategically (or be rejected) by ethnicized actors themselves, to mobilize, strengthen and articulate their own political projects.

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Published

2020-11-24

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 75 (2020)

Section

Forum for Debate

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