Los Usos Pol Ticos De La Identidad

Los usos políticos de la identidad

Usos políticos del patrimonio cultural

El patrimonio es con frecuencia motivo de conflictos, de oposiciones y de discrepancias políticas. Este libro analiza los usos políticos que se hacen de él en aspectos relacionados con las identidades, las luchas sociales, los enfrentamientos vecinales, las reivindicaciones de las sociedades indígenas e incluso en contextos de guerra, a partir del estudio de casos etnográficos procedentes de Latinoamérica, Europa y España. Los autores, a través de sus exploraciones en la museografía y las políticas culturales, van más allá del análisis del patrimonio para interrogarse sobre los escenarios y los discursos por los que discurren los mecanismos de apropiación y confrontación en el campo patrimonial.

The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America

This book presents a challenging view of the adoption and co-option of multiculturalism in Latin America from six scholars with extensive experience of grassroots movements and intellectual debates. It raises serious questions of theory, method, and interpretation for both social scientists and policymakers on the basis of cases in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Multicultural policies have enabled people to recover the land of their ancestors, administer justice in accordance with their traditions, provide recognition as full citizens of the nation, and promote affirmative action to enable them to take the place in society which is theirs by right. The message of this book is that while the multicultural response has done much to raise the symbolic recognition of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples nationally and internationally, its application calls for a profound reappraisal in spheres such as land, gender, institutional design, and equal opportunities. Written by scholars with long-term and in-depth engagement in Latin America, the chapters show that multicultural theories and policies, which assume racial and cultural boundaries to be clear-cut, overlook the pervasive reality of racial and cultural mixture and place excessive confidence in identity politics.