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(2016) Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
"It seems like a lie"
the everyday politics of world-making in contemporary Peru
Astrid B. Stensrud
pp. 253-272
In the Peruvian Andes, politics of climate change and water management require negotiations between different definitions of "nature". This chapter explores the possibility of opening up politics and the public to animistic practices like the ch"alla and iranta. These practices enact the possibility of fertility, protection, and even the productivity of tractors and other modern machinery. Stensrud argues that the ch"alla and other similar practices are not symbolic acts, but world-making practices from which other-than-human beings emerge. Thinking with Strathern's concept of partial connections, she also argues that these practices connect development projects with earth-beings in more than one but less than two worlds. Engaging with Rancière's notion of politics, Stensrud suggests that making these practices visible changes the space and possibility of politics.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40475-2_11
Full citation:
Stensrud, A. B. (2016)., "It seems like a lie": the everyday politics of world-making in contemporary Peru, in B. Enge bertelsen & S. Bendixsen (eds.), Critical anthropological engagements in human alterity and difference, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 253-272.
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