6-0240 VIOLENCE, POPULISM, AND (POST) NEOLIBERAL DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA

Sunday, November 20, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Nicholas M Copeland (University of Arkansas)

Chairs: Teresa Angelica Velasquez (University of Texas)

Discussants: Abigail E Adams (Central Connecticut State University)

10:15

“Giving to He Who Has the Least”: President Colom’s Populist Promises to Poor Indigenous Guatemalans, and His Government’s Renewed Scorched Earth Campaign Against Them

Heather K Teague (University of Texas)

10:30

A Campaign of Fear In a ‘Country of Peace’: CAFTA and the Politics of the Popular In Costa Rica

Jeremy Rayner (Graduate Center, CUNY)

10:45

"Sitting On a Sack of Gold": Mining and the Construction of a Nationalist Imaginary In Post-Neoliberal Ecuador

Teresa Angelica Velasquez (University of Texas)

11:00

Mano Dura o Mano Sucia? Normalizing Bleak Political Options In the Guatemalan Highlands

Nicholas M Copeland (University of Arkansas)

11:15

A Return of U.S.S. Honduras? Populist Struggles, Rising Violence, Dark Democracy

Jefferson C Boyer (Appalachian State University)

11:30

Discussant

Abigail E Adams (Central Connecticut State University)

11:45

Discussion

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