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Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the series -- Acknowledgments -- The Long and the Short of It: A Pragmatic Perspective on Political Cultures, Especially for the Modern History of the Andes -- Is Political Culture Good to Think? -- How Interests and Values Seldom Come Alone, or: The Utility of a Pragmatic Perspective on Political Culture -- Part One. State- and Nation-Building Projects and Their Limitations -- Civilize or Control? The Lingering Impact of the Bourbon Urban Reforms -- A Break with the Past? Santa Cruz and the Constitution -- The Tax Man Cometh: Local Authorities and the Battle Over Taxes in Peru, 1885-1906 -- ''Under the dominion of the indian'': Rural Mobilization, the Law, and Revolutionary Nationalism in Bolivia in the 1940s -- Part Two. Ethnicity, Gender, and the Construction of Power: Exclusionary Strategies and the Struggle for Citizenship -- ''Free Men of All Colors'' in New Granada: Identity and Obedience before Independence -- Silencing African Descent: Caribbean Colombia and Early Nation Building, 1810-1828 -- The Making of Ecuador's Pueblo Católico, 1861-1875 -- Redeemed Indians, Barbarized Cholos: Crafting Neocolonial Modernity in Liberal Bolivia, 1900-1910 -- Part Three. The Local, the Peripheral, and the Network: Redefining the Boundaries of Popular Representation in the Public Arena -- Andean Political Imagination in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Public Opinions and Public Spheres in Late-Nineteenth-Century Peru: A Multicolored Web in a Tattered Cloth -- The Local Limitations to a National Political Movement: Gaitán and Gaitanismo in Antioquia -- Concluding Remarks: Andean Inflections of Latin American Political Cultures -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution requires no temporalized march of progress or takeovers of state power but instead aims at local control and the material conditions for human dignity

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- I Globalization and Philosophy -- Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity -- Globalization, Civilization Processes, and the Relocation of languages and Cultures -- Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue -- II Alternative Localities -- Global Fragments: A Second Latinamericanism -- Toward a Regional Imaginary in Africa -- Negotiating African Culture: Toward a Decolonization of the Fetish -- The End of Free States: On Transnationalization of Culture -- Is There an Alternative to (Capitalist) Globalization? The Debate about Modernity in China -- III Culture and the Nation -- Globalization and Culture: Navigating the Void -- Nations and Literatures in the Age of Globalization -- Media in a Capitalist Culture -- "Globalization," Culture, and the University -- IV Consumerism and Ideology -- Dollarization, Fragmentation, and God -- Social Movements and Global Capitalism -- "Environmental Justice" (Local and Global) -- What's Green and Makes the Environment Go Round? -- Free Trade and Free Market: Pretense and Practice -- In Place of a Conclusion -- Index -- Contributors

This book brings together 11 prominent scholars and political activists to discuss and explore issues around postcolonialism, decoloniality, Theories of the South and Epistemologies of the South. These wide-ranging discussions touch upon issues from academic research methods and writing conventions to global struggles for justice

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword. Anomie, Resurgences, and De-Noming -- Introduction. Autonomy: Political Theory/Political Anthropology -- Part I. Geographies of Autonomy -- 1. The Death of Vitruvian Man: Anomaly, Anomie, Autonomy -- 2. Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Territory: -- Part II. Indigeneity and Commons -- 3. Enclosing the Enclosers: -- 4. Life and Nature "Otherwise" -- 5. Mind the Gap: -- 6. The Enclosure of the Nomos: -- Part III. Forms of Life -- 7. Decontainment: -- 8. The Savage Ontology of Insurrection: -- 9. Unreasonability, Style, and Pretiosity -- 10. Re-enchanting the World: -- Afterword. Resonances of the Common -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Racial Identities and Their Interpreters in Colonial Latin America -- 1. Aristocracy on the Auction Block: Race, Lords, and the Perpetuity Controversy of Sixteenth-Century Peru -- 2. A Market of Identities: Women, Trade, and Ethnic Labels in Colonial Potosí -- 3. Legally Indian: Inquisitorial Readings of Indigenous Identity in New Spain -- 4. The Many Faces of Colonialism in Two Iberoamerican Borderlands: Northern New Spain and the Eastern Lowlands of Charcas -- 5. Humble Slaves and Loyal Vassals: Free Africans and Their Descendants in Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil -- 6. Purchasing Whiteness: Conversations on the Essence of Pardo-ness and Mulatto-ness at the End of Empire -- 7. Patricians and Plebeians in Late Colonial Charcas: Identity, Representation, and Colonialism -- 8. Conjuring Identities: Race, Nativeness, Local Citizenship, and Royal Slavery on an Imperial Frontier (Revisiting El Cobre, Cuba) -- 9. Indigenous Citizenship: Liberalism, Political Participation, and Ethnic Identity in Post-Independence Oaxaca and Yucatán -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index