Politics and power are understood as interconnected yet opposed forms of agency that do not exist without each other and depend on transgressions and the upholding of social boundaries. Language and Political Subjectivity is an ethnographic and historical piece of research that considers how Indigenous and diasporic communities, with their political subjectivities, expand over significant sociohistorical changes, debates, and struggles in the transformation of Chilean democracy and Venezuelas Bolivarian Revolution. It offers an innovative approach to stancemaking as a rhetorical semiotic process that produces truth, beliefs, and certainties about social realities and relations.
Recenzijas
This is an exciting and important book. The analyses draw on a unique and interesting set of texts that powerfully demonstrate the usefulness of stancemaking for understanding political discourse. Rusty Barrett, University of Kentucky
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter
1. Stancemaking
Chapter
2. Rapa Nui Voice, Stance, and Subjectivities
Chapter
3. Lived Beliefs and Corporeal Consciousness
Chapter
4. Settling National Truths in Democratic Chile
Chapter
5. Venezuelans in Chile
Chapter
6. Indigenous Peoples of Venezuela and Their Semiotic Ordeals
Conclusion
References
Index
Miki Makihara is Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She is the co-editor of Consequences of Contact (Oxford University Press, 2007).
