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by Maria Elena Garcia
This book makes a substantive contribution to the rapidly
burgeoning literature on indigenous activists and development... it
demonstrates convincingly that the rejection of bilingual education
inherently reflected fears of affirming ethnic identity because such
an identity still implied second-class citizenship.
Set against conventional views of Peru as a place where
indigenous mobilization has been absent, this book examines the complex,
contentious politics between intercultural activists, local Andean indigenous
community members, state officials, non-governmental organizations,
and transnationally-educated indigenous intellectuals. It examines the
paradoxes and possibilities of Quechua community protests against intercultural
bilingual education, official multicultural policies implemented by
state and non-state actors, and the training of “authentic”
indigenous leaders far from their home communities.
Focusing on important local sites of transnational
connections, especially in the highland communities of Cuzco, and on
an international academic institute for the study of intercultural bilingual
education, this book shows how contemporary indigenous politics are
inextricably and simultaneously local and global. In exploring some
of the seeming contradictions of Peruvian indigenous politics, Making
Indigenous Citizens suggests that indigenous movements and citizenship
are articulated in extraordinary but under-explored ways in Latin America
and beyond.
Garcia has fashioned a book thats terrific in every
way. Her subject is the politics of culture, tradition, and identity
in the Andes, and its the best thing Ive read on the topic in as long
as I can remember. Making Indigenous Citizens will become a key book
in scholarship about the Andes and Latin America.
This book fills a huge gap in the literature on indigenous
movements in the Andes: it should be on the bookshelves of every student
of indigeneity or the Andes, it would be an excellent assignment for
undergraduate or graduate classes and it should also interest people
who simply want to better understand this fascinating and long-suffering
country. Wonderfully profound and enjoyable work from an exciting new
scholar.
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