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Within the context of neoliberal conservation and ecotourism development, the Honduran state has prioritized the desires of foreign tourists and private investors over the needs of indigenous and black coastal inhabitants, and... more
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In this article, I draw upon over two years of fieldwork in a Garifuna community in Tela Bay, Honduras, to explore the ethical and political contradictions bound up with activist‐oriented ethnographic research. The rise of tourism as a... more
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      AnthropologyEthnography (Research Methodology)Honduras
R e s u m e n En este artículo analizo la resistencia Garífuna ante el golpe de estado contra Manuel Rosales Zelaya. Me baso en entrevistas y conversaciones con activistas y observací on participante en las protestas contra el golpe de... more
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      MulticulturalismIndigenous or Aboriginal StudiesRace and Ethnicity
Following Hurricane Mitch in 1998, the Honduran government introduced legislative reforms designed to generate investment opportunities in energy, mining and tourism and to expedite the post-disaster recovery. This experiment in "disaster... more
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      Race and EthnicityNeoliberalismExtractive industries (Economic Anthropology)Honduras
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      Central American StudiesSettler Colonial StudiesHondurasAnti-Blackness
Para conformar el dosier de este número de Desacatos, invitamos a antropólogos a reflexionar sobre los retos metodológicos, epis-temológicos y políticos que implica su labor como peritos en litigios que involucran a integrantes de pueblos... more
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      Human RightsIndigenous KnowledgePolitical and Legal AnthropologyExpert Witness
Introduction to special section on Cultural Expertise for the journal American Anthropologist
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      Race and RacismIndigenous Peoples RightsGarifuna StudiesPolitical and Legal Anthropology
In 2014, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights heard two cases concerning the alleged complicity of Honduran state institutions in the violation of Garifuna communal property rights. Garifuna, a people of mixed Arawak, Carib, and... more
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      Legal AnthropologyCentral American StudiesIndigeneityActivist Ethnography
Special Issue Introduction
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Excerpt from Introduction
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      Development StudiesRace and RacismIndigenous Peoples RightsBlackness in Latin America
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      Art HistoryArt Theory and Criticism
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      GeographyPhotographyPanoramasVisual Culture
Just as history in Europe is told through its existing art and architecture (as well as through that which is missing because it has been bombed to bits), contemporary art questions our conceptions of the present and engages the problem... more
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There exists a longstanding relationship between the arts and gentrification in cities and this paper will explore this dynamic and attempt to introduce new theories and data to the formulations that have been elaborated so far. I will... more
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      GentrificationUrbanismNon Profit Organizations
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      Art TheoryContemporary ArtArt Market
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      Contemporary ArtInformal EconomyArt MarketArt Fairs
In the United States, we tend to think of citizenship as a privilege, but it is not hard to imagine how it could instead be a curse when your very right to exist is challenged in your home country. In 2015, Europe received more than a... more
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      Southeast Asian StudiesContemporary ArtMigration Studies
John Zarobell says that much as US abstract art once competed with socialist realism propaganda, India's and China's competing visions for art are now vying for cultural influence As globalisation has distributed economic benefits around... more
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      Contemporary ArtDiplomacyChinaIndia
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      GlobalizationMuseum StudiesContemporary ArtInformal Economy
Urban development is often conceived in terms of infrastructure and demographics, weighing the ability of planning to cope with rapid changes in population as a result of global economic and environmental pressures emerging throughout the... more
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