Browsing All posts tagged under »Peru«
Encircling Empire: Report #5, 01-08 October 2010
EE: Report #5, 01—08 October 2010 Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given time period. They are intended to be useful for those interested in: ● contemporary and critical political anthropology ● public anthropology ● imperialism and imperial decline ● militarism/militarization ● the political economy of […]
Peru’s Amazonian Massacre: Links to Reports and Action Resources
June 15, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Comments Off
Other sites have been presenting an excellent range of reports and other resources concerning the ongoing Amazonian indigenous conflict with the government of Peruvian President Alan García who has called for “order, energy, action” against the forces of “irrationality” that will bring Peru to a “backward, primitive state,” calling the indigenous protesters “pseudo-natives” and their […]
The Peruvian Massacre and a “Socialist” Fig Leaf for World Capitalism
June 12, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Comments Off
James Petras, in an essay that is being widely reproduced across the web (as it will be here as well), articulates a series of critical points regarding the nature of the Peruvian regime, the political history of President Alan García (profile) and his APRA party (which continues to use grand revolutionary symbols), and its service […]
Resisting Free Trade, Racism, and the State: Peru’s Amazonian Indians Fight Back
June 10, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
‘Peruvian Indians are being driven to desperate measures to try and save their lands which have been stolen from them for five centuries. ‘Their protests signal that the colonial era has finally drawn to a close. No longer are Amazon Indians prepared to put up with the illegal and brutal treatment which has been routine. […]
Survival International Wins Apology Over “Hoax” Tribe Claims
September 2, 2008 by Maximilian Forte
Comments Off
This is a story I have been following since it first appeared on Survival International‘s news site, concerning The Observer‘s article suggesting that the “uncontacted tribes” in the Amazon were a hoax. While there has been some controversy among anthropologists without any real connection to struggles for indigenous rights as to whether it is “anthropologically […]
ZA NETWORK
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
October 9, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
1