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by Kiran Asher


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In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She bases her argument on ethnographic analysis of the black social movements that emerged from and interacted with political and economic changes in Colombia's Pacific lowlands, or Choc region, in the 1990s.

The Pacific region had yet to be overrun by drug traffickers, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces in the early 1990s. It was better known as the largest area of black culture in the country (90 percent of the region's population is Afro-Colombian) and as a supplier of natural resources, including timber, gold, platinum, and silver. Colombia's Law 70, passed in 1993, promised ethnic and cultural rights, collective land ownership, and socioeconomic development to Afro-Colombian communities. At the same time that various constituencies sought to interpret and implement Law 70, the state was moving ahead with large-scale development initiatives intended to modernize the economically backward coastal lowlands. Meanwhile national and international conservation organizations were attempting to protect the region's rich biodiversity. Asher explores this juxtaposition of black rights, economic development, and conservation--and the tensions it catalyzed. She analyzes the meanings attached to "culture," "nature," and "development" by the Colombian state and Afro-Colombian social movements, including women's groups. In so doing, she shows that the appropriation of development and conservation discourses by the social movements had a paradoxical effect. It legitimized the presence of state, development, and conservation agencies in the Pacific region even as it influenced those agencies' visions and plans.

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"Kiran Asher provides the best exploration we have of Afro-Colombians' experiences in the wake of an unprecedented 1991 constitutional clause recognizing collective land rights for black communities. Across the disciplines, students of racial politics and environmental organizing will benefit from her thoughtful analysis and the clarity of her approach."--Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, author of "Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960"

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  • Title Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands
  • Author Kiran Asher
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2009-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780822344834 / 0822344831
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 6.1 x 0.7 in (22.10 x 15.49 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Blacks - Colombia - Pacific Coast - Social, Blacks - Civil rights - Colombia - Pacific
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009005700
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896

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Kiran Asher is Associate Professor of International Development & Social Change and Women's Studies at Clark University.

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