Reencountering Development: Livelihood Transitions and Place Transformations in the Andes

摘要: Neither poststructural nor neoliberal interpretations of development capture the full extent and complexity rural transformations in Andes. Poststructural critiques tend to view as a process cultural destruction homogenization, while identify different ‘failure’ that inheres ‘inefficient’ patterns resource use, ‘nonviability’ large parts Andean peasantry. In each case, state is seen problem: an agent dominating modernization, or brake on market-led transformation. The paper reviews these positions light governance, livelihoods, landscape have occurred regions Colta, Guamote, Otavalo, all centers indigenous Quichua populations Ecuadorian These question accuracy arguments about nonviability. Instead they suggest people built economically viable livelihood strategies that...