Language and Political Subjectivity
Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2025
210 pages
978-1-83695-033-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 Venezuela's 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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 KentuckyMore details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 7 Illustrations
File size
4,82 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-033-2 (9781836950332)
DOI
10.3167/9781836950356
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Miki Makihara | Juan L. Rodriguez
Language and Political Subjectivity
Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela
Book
07/2025
Berghahn Books
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Persons
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).
Content
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
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
