Ser y Tener: Engendering Development and Ethnicity in the Pacific Lowlands of Colômbia

In this paper I explore how Afro-Colombian women’s organizations and networks shape and are shaped by state initiatives to develop and modernize the Pacific region. I argue that in doing so these mobilize and go beyond the developmentalist rhetoric of the state and the discourse of gendered black...

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Main Author: Kiran Asher
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2004-01-01
Series:Revista Estudos Feministas
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/8624
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Summary:In this paper I explore how Afro-Colombian women’s organizations and networks shape and are shaped by state initiatives to develop and modernize the Pacific region. I argue that in doing so these mobilize and go beyond the developmentalist rhetoric of the state and the discourse of gendered black ethnicity and tradition of black political organizations in the region.
ISSN:0104-026X
1806-9584