Performing politics, making space : a visual ethnography of political change in Ecuador / Carolin Schurr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schurr, Carolin, author.

Series:

Erdkundliches Wissen ; Band 152.

Erdkundliches Wissen ; Band 152

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Ecuador.

Political participation.

Visual anthropology.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Political geography.

Ecuador--Politics and government--1984-.

Ecuador.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013.

Summary:

Constructing more inclusive political spaces has been a central concern of social movements in postcolonial societies. This e-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, emo

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; GEOGRAPHIES OF THANKS; THREE VIGNETTES: ENCOUNTERING WOMEN IN ELECTORAL POLITICS; 1. INTRODUCING POLITICAL CHANGE IN ECUADOR; SEARCHING FOR A FEMINIST ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; PUZZLING OVER POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN ECUADOR; TRAVELING THROUGH ECUADORIAN LOCAL POLITICS; 2. RETHINKING ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; THEORISING SPACES OF DEMOCRACY; Understanding (Spaces of) Politics as Antagonistic; From the Performativity of Gender to Performative Spaces of Politics; The Emotional Spaces of Passionate Politics

(Spaces of) Politics at the 'Crossroad' of Gender, Ethnicity, Class and LocalityRethinking Electoral Geography through Feminist Theories; STUDYING POLITICAL PRACTICES IN LOCAL SPACES OF POLITICS; 3. THE PERFORMATIVITY OF POST-COLONIAL POLITICS; TAKING BUTLER AND MOUFFE ELSEWHERE; THINKING SPACE THROUGH PERFORMATIVITY AND ANTAGONISM; HEGEMONY, POWER AND SPACES OF POLITICS; CONTESTING (POST-)COLONIAL POLITICAL HEGEMONIES; PERFORMING ANTAGONISM IN CHIMBORAZO'S LOCAL POLITICS; INTERCULTURALIDAD AS AGONISTIC POLITICS; TOWARDS A POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CHANGE

4. A VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF POLITICAL PERFORMANCESOPENING CREDITS; GENRE: VISUALIZING THE PERFORMATIVE TURN; STAGE DIRECTION: STRUGGLING WITH THE CAMERA IN THE FIELD; ON THE SET: IDENTITY PERFORMANCES ON THE POLITICAL STAGE; CLOSING CREDITS; 5. PERFORMATIVE EMOTIONS IN ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNS; QUE VIVA PACHAKUTIK: EMOTIONS IN LOCAL CAMPAIGNS; THE PERFORMATIVITY OF EMOTIONS IN POLITICAL SPEECH; RESEARCHING EMOTIONS; EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF POPULISM; EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF LOCAL CAMPAIGNING; TOWARDS AN EMOTIONAL ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; 6. THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF EMOTIONS IN CAMPAIGNS

BRIDGING EMOTIONAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIESRESEARCHING EMOTIONS FROM AN INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE; STRUCTURAL INTERSECTIONALITIES AS CAUSE AND TARGET OF COLLECTIVE FEELINGS; DISCOURSES AROUND THE WHITENESS AND MASCULINITY OF ECUADOR'S POLITICAL SPACES; EMOTIONAL PERFORMANCES AS PART OF POLITICAL IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS; THINKING EMOTIONS FROM AN INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE; 7. RETHINKING GENDER QUOTAS INTERSECTIONALLY; ACCESSING ECUADORIAN POLITICS; INTERSECTIONALITY IN ELECTORAL POLITICS; RESEARCHING INTERSECTIONALITY IN ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY

GENDER QUOTAS AS A MECHANISM FOR ENRICHING DEMOCRATIC INCLUSION?INTERSECTIONAL POLITICAL AGENDAS?; A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON GENDER QUOTAS; 8. TACKLING FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUETHROUGH PARTICIPATORY AND INTERSECTIONAL APPROACHES; FACING FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUE; TOWARDS A FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL RESEARCH AGENDA; PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES BETWEEN TYRANNY AND TRANSFORMATION; TAKING INTO ACCOUNT INTERSECTIONALITY; DEVELOPING TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST RESEARCH PRACTICES; 9. TOWARDS FEMINIST ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHIES; (HOW) DO WOMEN DO POLITICS?; PERFORMING POLITICS

MAKING SPACE FOR FEMINIST ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHIES

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-515-10565-4