- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804755962
- eISBN:
- 9780804768290
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804755962.003.0008
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter is concerned with the process of claiming various territories in Buenos Aires. It is argued that this claiming process also sets into motion the cementing of political decentralization ...
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This chapter is concerned with the process of claiming various territories in Buenos Aires. It is argued that this claiming process also sets into motion the cementing of political decentralization and giving the locals a better understanding of their rights. It shows how the process of claiming helped create fresh ways of thinking about politics and the municipality and led to a new imagining of the state. Next, it explains how this process establishes new institutions at the national, community, and local government levels and how claims to citizenship can be maintained. The politics of equal citizens is discussed in the latter part of the chapter.Less
This chapter is concerned with the process of claiming various territories in Buenos Aires. It is argued that this claiming process also sets into motion the cementing of political decentralization and giving the locals a better understanding of their rights. It shows how the process of claiming helped create fresh ways of thinking about politics and the municipality and led to a new imagining of the state. Next, it explains how this process establishes new institutions at the national, community, and local government levels and how claims to citizenship can be maintained. The politics of equal citizens is discussed in the latter part of the chapter.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804755962
- eISBN:
- 9780804768290
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804755962.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This introductory chapter discusses the two Afro-Colombian communities in the Andes that are making land claims. The two specific areas of land that these communities are making claims upon have been ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the two Afro-Colombian communities in the Andes that are making land claims. The two specific areas of land that these communities are making claims upon have been dubbed as the Collective Territories for Black Communities. The chapter first describes the geography of Colombia before it examines the Afro-Colombian claims to areas of Buenos Aires territory. It then explains the use of the term “Afro-Colombian” throughout the book and lists several categories of belonging. Part of the chapter addresses the question as to why these claims were made and how one can study the state by focusing on various details of everyday life. The chapter ends with a section on Colombia during 1999, when the author conducted fieldwork for this topic.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the two Afro-Colombian communities in the Andes that are making land claims. The two specific areas of land that these communities are making claims upon have been dubbed as the Collective Territories for Black Communities. The chapter first describes the geography of Colombia before it examines the Afro-Colombian claims to areas of Buenos Aires territory. It then explains the use of the term “Afro-Colombian” throughout the book and lists several categories of belonging. Part of the chapter addresses the question as to why these claims were made and how one can study the state by focusing on various details of everyday life. The chapter ends with a section on Colombia during 1999, when the author conducted fieldwork for this topic.
