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Indian and Peasant Politics in Latin America: Amazonia

Professor Stephen Nugent , Goldsmiths

Outline

This course is concerned with some of the key issues in the emergence of new forms of Indian and peasant identity and politics in Brazilian Amazonia. Against a background of colonial history, ethnohistory and ethnographic studies, the course considers contemporary movements in light of new configurations of power. Detailed themes include cultural identity and memory of the past; the impact of development programmes and globalization; eco-politics; debates over citizenship and democracy; indigenism and re-readings of the past; ecological politics. 

Introductory readings

• A. B. Anderson (ed.), Alternatives to Deforestation (New York, 1990)
• A. C. Roosevelt (ed.), Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present (Tucson, 1994)
• H. Collinson (ed.), Green Guerrillas (London, 1996)
• D. Goodman and A. Hall (eds.), The Future of Amazonia (London, 1990);
• S. Nugent and M. Harris (eds) 'Some Other Amazonians'; M. Heckenberger, The Ecology of Power
• S. Ranford and J. Rocha, Cutting the Wire.