The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader

Introduction / Ileana Rodríguez 1 I. Convergences of Times: Subaltern Studies C South Asia/Latin America, Modern/Postmodern Subaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence / Ranajit Guha 35 The Im/possibility of Politics? Subalternity, Modernity, Hegemony / John Beverley 47 Solidarity as Event: Communism as Personal Practice, and Disencounters in the Politics of Desire / María Milagros López 64 A Storm Blowing from Paradise: Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism / Alberto Moreiras 81 II. Indigenous Peoples and the Coloniality of Power Rigoberta Menchu After the Nobel: From Militant Narrative to Postmodern Politics / Marc Zimmerman 111 No Perfect World: Aboriginal Communities' Contemporary Resource Rights / Patricia Seed 129 Historiography on the Ground: The Toledo Circle and Guaman Poma / Sara Castro-Klaren 143 III. Subject Positions: Dominant and Subaltern Intellectuals? Slaps and Embraces: A Rhetoric of Particularism / Doris Sommer 175 Beyond Representation? The Impossibility of the Local (Notes on Subaltern Studies in Light of a Rebellion in Tepoztlan, Morelos) / Jose Rabasa 191 Questions of Strategy as an Abstract Minimum: Subalternity and Us / Abdul Karim Mustapha 211 IV. Ungovernability: Authoritarian and Democratic Hegemonies From Glory to Menace II Society: African-American Subalternity and the Ungovernability of the Democratic Impulse Under Super Capitalist Orders / Robert Carr 227 Twenty Preliminary Propositions for a Critical History of International Statecraft in Haiti / Michael Clark 241 Death in the Andes: Ungovernability and the Birth of Tragedy in Peru / Gareth Williams 260 Outside In and Inside Out: Visualizing Society in Bolivia / Javier Sanjines C. 288 V. Citizenship: Resistance, Transgression, Disobedience The Teaching Machine for the Wild Citizen / Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan 313 Apprenticeship as Citizenship and Governability / Ileana Rodriguez 341 The Architectural Relationship between Gender, Race, and the Bolivian State / Marcia Stephenson 367 Gender, Citizenship, and Social Protest: The New Social Movements in Argentina / Marcelo Bergman and Monica Szurmuk 383 Who's the Indian in Aztlan? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandon / Josefina Saldana-Portillo 402 Coloniality of Power and Subalternity / Walter D. Mignolo 424 Contributors 445 Index 449