Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Blaser, Mario

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0822345455 ISBN 13 : 9780822345459

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2010

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"In this instructive and original work, modernity and the drama of globalization offer a historical horizon in relation to which both the activity of the anthropologist and the problems faced by the Yshiro communities in Paraguay are explored. Border dialogue (perhaps even border anthropology) is born precisely in the encounter between modern globalizing tendencies and the opening up of a different global imaginary, one rooted in the reality of there being many epistemic and social worlds."oNelson Maldonado-Torres, author of Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity "Mario Blaser's talented and deeply insightful storytelling opens up paths into the transition from modernity to globality. Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond is a work of depth, scholarship, and hopefulness. Blaser's years of learning and collaborating with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco have pressed him to ask questions that destabilize much of the taken-for-granted knowledge of the Euromodern academy. With his research interlocutor Don Veneto Vera to prod him into dialogical investigations of relational ontologies in the pluriverse, Blaser brings us, the readers, into places where incisiveness, analysis, and passionate commitment converge. This book demonstrates and enacts the power of strong stories: to change our understandings, to open other worlds, to give us untamed glimpses of substantive alternatives for life on Earth."oDeborah Bird Rose, author of Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation "When 'the rest' meets 'the West,' are the modern stories enough? In this deeply disturbing and thought-provoking book, Mario Blaser shows that for the marginalized and exploited, the world is storied and materialized quite differently. Forced to recognize that hegemonic Western knowledges, institutions, and worlds deny those realities, Blaser tells a destabilizing but ultimately affirmative story that is simultaneously analytical, political, and ontological. This superb book will be compulsory reading for all students of anthropology, development studies, postcolonialism, and science and technology studies."oJohn Law, author of After Method: Mess in Social Science Research "Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond is an anthropological tour de force with strong philosophical, political, epistemic, and ontological implications. Mario Blaser shifts the geopolitics of knowing and reasoning by looking at globalization not only from the South but also and mainly through the eyes of those who endure its consequences. In the narratives Blaser presents, border thinking takes on new dimensions and is shown to be an essential aspect of de-colonial thought. Notions about 'objectivity' and 'universal truth' necessarily give way to a recognition of ontological diversity." --oWalter D. Mignolo, author of The Idea of Latin America

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond is a project that seeks to create space for new articulations of modernity and globalization. Through his frequent interactions over the past seventeen years with the Yshiro communities in Paraguay, who view storytelling and representation as active aspects of lived experience and social organization, Mario Blaser challenges the modern principles that on the one hand narrate globalization as the expansion and radicalization of modernity, but on the other hand describe globalization as an alternative to modernity. To avoid reaffirming other academic norms and dualities that feed into the modern myths of globalization, Blaser himself disavows the object/subject relationship in his ethnography and instead of representing with "accuracy" the lifestyles and ideas of the Yshiro communities, he narrates his own personal experience and the viewpoint(s) created following his dialogues with the village elders. Blaser shows that to view globalization as a natural progression of modernity is to enable neoliberalism, with its government and development institutions that rely heavily on expert and academic knowledge, to flourish. Embracing pluriversality, which has been rendered invisible over the last five hundred years by Western claims to universality, is an essential part of Blaser's project as he gives voice to a community that has been silenced and assimilated by a sequence of imposed colonial and developmental projects but nevertheless is not entirely engulfed in the myths of modernity. Much of the book traces the historical progression of the Yshiro community, from their first encounters with Western agents and resulting local nationalist conflicts to the present day crisis of modernity. This crisis has enabled the Yshiro to reclaim the traditions, narratives, and performative myths they were once forced to abandon in favor of Western modes of thought. By relating these narratives in a manner that is as unadulterated as possible, Blaser attempts to reveal the rise of a pluriversality that challenges the very basic myths of modernity and that truly turns globalization into an empowering agent for the subaltern.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0822345455
• ISBN 13: 9780822345459
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316