Tactics of the governed: figures of abandonment in Andean Peru
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Tactics of the governed : figures of abandonment in Andean Peru. / Rasmussen, Mattias Borg.
In: Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 49, No. 2, 2017, p. 327-353.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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T1 - Tactics of the governed
T2 - figures of abandonment in Andean Peru
AU - Rasmussen, Mattias Borg
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Abandonment has become a performative idiom in Andean Peru, where it retains its purchase despite the investments of the state. Local development is tied to the desire to be governed. In spite of prolonged state presence, the villages’ relationship to authorities is continuously and persistently figured as one of abandonment: villages are abandoned because someone is deliberately holding them in such unfortunate conditions. To figure abandonment in village politics is to draw on this idiom as an effective means of both communicating the historical experience of governance and putting forward morally grounded claims to local authorities. The idiom of abandonment is therefore both effective and affective as a critique of governance and a claim to citizenship.
AB - Abandonment has become a performative idiom in Andean Peru, where it retains its purchase despite the investments of the state. Local development is tied to the desire to be governed. In spite of prolonged state presence, the villages’ relationship to authorities is continuously and persistently figured as one of abandonment: villages are abandoned because someone is deliberately holding them in such unfortunate conditions. To figure abandonment in village politics is to draw on this idiom as an effective means of both communicating the historical experience of governance and putting forward morally grounded claims to local authorities. The idiom of abandonment is therefore both effective and affective as a critique of governance and a claim to citizenship.
U2 - 10.1017/S0022216X16001826
DO - 10.1017/S0022216X16001826
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 327
EP - 353
JO - Journal of Latin American Studies
JF - Journal of Latin American Studies
SN - 0022-216X
IS - 2
ER -
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