Papers by Gerardo Renique
Duke University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Apr 20, 2009
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Apr 20, 2009
Socialism and Democracy, Sep 2, 2017
Duke University Press eBooks, Oct 21, 2010
Nacla Report On The Americas, 2009
B etween august 9 and 20, thousands of Awajun, Wampis, Matsiguenka, Shipibo, and other indigenous... more B etween august 9 and 20, thousands of Awajun, Wampis, Matsiguenka, Shipibo, and other indigenous peoples of the Amazon mounted an unprecedented series of simultaneous, peaceful demonstrations against the Peruvian state. The protesters, organized under an umbrella group called the Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP), occupied oil and gas pumping stations and hydroelectric plants, staged marches and demonstrations, shut down navigation on rivers, and blocked strategically located bridges and highways along the eastern reaches of Peru’s Amazonian basin. Their primary demand was the withdrawal of Law 840, popularly known as the Law of the Jungle, presented to Congress for approval in late 2006 by President Alan García. The proposed legislation sought to undermine the collectiveproperty regime of both highland Andean and lowland Amazonian indigenous communities by conceding supposedly “uncultivated” lands to lumber companies, surrendering the nation’s rights over natural resources to foreign investors. Other measures proposed to expand the area of forest concessions (to almost 100,000 acres for use over 40 years); facilitate the use of public waters by private irrigation projects; lower the restrictions for the introduction of transgenic seeds; ease government control over protected areas; and establish forest zones of “permanent production.” García justified this onslaught in an October 2007 editorial published in the right-wing daily El Comercio. He identified the communal property regime as Peru’s main obstacle to development and modernization, claiming the existence of “uncultivated” land that indigenous communities “do not till” and “will not till” because they lack the know-how and financial resources. He called for the prompt privatization of these lands in order to attract “long-term high technology” investment, holding the communal-property model responsible for “the vicious circle of misery” afflicting the Amazonian region (the Amazonian regions of Amazonas and Loreto are among the country’s poorest, according to a 2006 study by Peru’s Cooperation Fund for Social Develop5 Against the Law of the Jungle: Peru’s Amazonian Uprising
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War, 2010
Since 1980, Peru has been the scene of an escalating civil war. On the one hand, the Sendero Lumi... more Since 1980, Peru has been the scene of an escalating civil war. On the one hand, the Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path") maoists determined to destroy existing society. On the other, the Peruvian military, acknowledged as South America's worst human rights violators. Caught in the middle, and dying in their thousands each year, are the poor peasants and slum-dwellers of Peru. Victims also of a collapsing economy and radical austerity programme, the great majority of Peruvians are living a time of fear. This work looks at the astonishing success of Sendero Luminoso, examines the party's bizarre ideology and describes how its violence reaches every corner of Peruvian society. It also explains why "non-politician" President Fujimori has assumed dictatorial powers in a deal with the military.
Allpanchis, Jun 13, 1992
Durante la década de 1980 la antropología estadounidense pasó por dos grandes transformaciones. L... more Durante la década de 1980 la antropología estadounidense pasó por dos grandes transformaciones. La primera involucró un viraje hacia la historia. La segunda, un viraje hacia los textos. Mientras que la primera de éstas condujo a los eruditos por un largo camino hacia el entendimiento de la especificidad, funcionamiento y realidad concreta de los procesos económicos, políticos, discursivos y sociales estudiados por la antropología; la segunda recorrió un primoroso camino de auto*-reflexión y crítica disciplinaria. Cuando ambos caminos se cruzaron produjeron un saludable re-examen histórico de los orígenes discursivos e institucionales de la antropología en el pensamiento colonial y evolucionista del siglo XIX.
Nacla Report On The Americas, Oct 1, 2016
Latin America Bureau eBooks, 2015
Nacla Report On The Americas, Sep 1, 2010
32 different from Western developmentalism in that we call for harmony with, and respect for, Mot... more 32 different from Western developmentalism in that we call for harmony with, and respect for, Mother Earth. Our project also calls for another way of conceiving the state. The republican states that were invented 200 years ago are effectively exhausted, since have not been able to resolve fundamental problems. These homogenizing, uninational, monocultural, monolingual states, which took shape in the aftermath of the French Revolution, are today in crisis. In Peru, for example, we are effectively excluded from social, political, and economic participation because the state is dominated by criollos who are, in fact, a minority in the country. So the indigenous movement has put forward the need to reinvent another form of the state and a new model of democracy—a democracy that is no longer just representative. In the Peruvian case, representational democracy, through the Congress, has effectively collapsed. The Congress is highly corrupt, inefficient, and informal. The executive branch is also characterized by high levels of corruption. So we need a different democracy, and the form of democracy that we propose from within the indigenous movements is communitarian; it is a participatory democracy of mandar obedeciendo.
Nacla Report On The Americas, 2012
Peru - Time of Fear, 2015
Peru - Time of Fear, 2015
Peru - Time of Fear, 2015
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