2 Works
Editorial: Nación y Nacionalismo
Yasmin Temelli (ed.) & Gustavo Leyva (ed.)
pp. 4-13.
El proyecto del Mundo Maya: Conceptos del desarrollo entre cultura, identidad nacional y pobreza
Hans Bouchard
pp. 33-54.
This article tries to deconstruct the concept of development, national identity and poverty through the analysis of the project Mundo Maya. The key concept to dismantle those connections is the figure of the "indígena". Being unable to participate as neoliberal actor as part of the "poors", – although the development policies seem to propose solutions in order to fix this – the "indígena" is stuck in his function as "cultural heir of the...