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Performing politics, making space : a visual ethnography of political change in Ecuador / Carolin Schurr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schurr, Carolin.
- Series:
- Erdkundliches Wissen ; Bd. 152.
- Geographie (Franz Steiner Verlag)
- Erdkundliches Wissen, 0425-1741 ; Bd. 152
- Geographie
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation--Ecuador.
- Political participation.
- Ecuador--Politics and government--1984-.
- Ecuador.
- Politics and government.
- Visual anthropology.
- Ethnology--Methodology.
- Ethnology.
- Political geography.
- Physical Description:
- 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2013]
- Summary:
- Constructing more inclusive political spaces has been a central concern of social movements in postcolonial societies. This book engages with Ecuador's recent processes of political transformation by questioning to what extent these contribute to a decolonization of Ecuador's democracy. Based on visual ethnographic research in Ecuadorian local politics, it interrogates the effect of women's and indigenous people's political participation on building more inclusive, intercultural political spaces. The volume develops a poststructuralist electoral geography capturing the embodied, emotional, and intersectional performances that produce political spaces. In doing so, it breaks new empirical ground and expands the field of electoral geography, connecting it to current conceptual debates in human geography. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Departures
- Three Vignettes: Encountering Women in Electoral Politics 17
- 1 Introducing Political Change in Ecuador 19
- Searching for a Feminist Electoral Geography 22
- Puzzling over Political Transformations in Ecuador 27
- Traveling through Ecuadorian Local Politics 35
- 2 Rethinking Electoral Geography 39
- Theorising Spaces of Democracy 43
- Understanding (Spaces of) Politics as Antagonistic 43
- From the Performativity of Gender to Performative Spaces of Politics 49
- The Emotional Spaces of Passionate Politics 53
- (Spaces of) Politics at the 'Crossroad' of Gender, Ethnicity, Class and Locality 563
- Rethinking Electoral Geography through Feminist Theories 61
- Studying Political Practices in Local Spaces of Politics 63
- Performativities
- 3 The Performativity of Post-Colonial Politics 73
- Taking Butler and Mouffe Elsewhere 73
- Thinking Space through Performativity and Antagonism 74
- Hegemony, Power and Spaces of Politics 77
- Contesting (Post-)Colonial Political Hegemonies 82
- Performing Antagonism in Chimborazo's Local Politics 84
- Interculturalidad as Agonistic Politics 89
- Towards a Political Geography of Change 93
- 4 A Visual Ethnography of Political Performances 95
- Opening Credits 95
- Genre: Visualizing the Performative Turn 96
- Stage Direction: Struggling with the Camera in the Field 99
- On the Set: Identity Performances on the Political Stage 100
- Closing Credits 104
- Emotions
- 5 Performative Emotions in Electoral Campaigns 109
- Que viva Pachakutik: Emotions in Local Campaigns 109
- The Performativity of Emotions in Political Speech 111
- Researching Emotions 114
- Emotional Geographies of Populism 116
- Emotional Geographies of Local Campaigning 120
- Towards an Emotional Electoral Geography 125
- 6 The Intersectionality of Emotions in Campaigns 127
- Bridging Emotional and Political Geographies 128
- Researching Emotions from an Intersectional Perspective 129
- Structural Intersectionalities as Cause and Target of Collective Feelings 130
- Discourses around the Whiteness and Masculinity of Ecuador's Political Spaces 133
- Emotional Performances as Part of Political Identity Constructions 134
- Thinking Emotions from an Intersectional Perspective 136
- Intersectionalities
- 7 Rethinking Gender Quotas Intersectionally 141
- Accessing Ecuadorian Politics 141
- Intersectionality in Electoral Politics 142
- Researching Intersectionality in Electoral Geography 145
- Gender Quotas as a Mechanism for Enriching Democratic Inclusion? 147
- Intersectional Political Agendas? 151
- A Geographical Perspective on Gender Quotas 164
- 8 Tackling Feminist Postcolonial Critique through Participatory and Intersectional Approaches 167
- Facing Feminist Postcolonial Critique 167
- Towards a Feminist Postcolonial Research Agenda 168
- Participatory Approaches between Tyranny and Transformation 169
- Taking into account Intersectionality 172
- Developing Transnational Feminist Research Practices 176
- Conclusions
- 9 Towards Feminist Electoral Geographies 181
- (How) Do Women Do Politics? 181
- Performing Politics 182
- Making Spaces for Feminist Electoral Geographies 185.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3515104666
- 9783515104661
- OCLC:
- 855046715
- Publisher Number:
- 99958837350
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