Tactics of the governed: figures of abandonment in Andean Peru

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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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Latin American Studies
Volume49
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)327-353
Number of pages27
ISSN0022-216X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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