Search for dissertations about: "Lesley Gill"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Lesley Gill.

  2. 1. The Cursed Leaf : An Anthropology of the Political Economy of Cocaine Production in Southern Colombia

    Author : Oscar Jansson; Per Brandström; Lesley Gill; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Colombia; Putumayo; cocaine; paramilitarism; political economy; political anthropology; patron-client relations; ideology; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi;

    Abstract : In this study, Oscar Jansson explores the relations mediating the distribution of surplus value in the sub-capitalist environment of cocaine production in Putumayo, Colombia. Analyzing the groups of actors in the chain of production in the tropical periphery, the study asserts that the transfer of surplus value from the peasant producers at the bottom of the cocaine economy to a significant extent is mediated by violence inflicted by paramilitary groups. READ MORE

  4. 2. To Make Do in the City : Social Identities and Cultural Transformations among Aymara Speakers in La Paz

    Author : Charlotta Widmark; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Mikael Kurkiala; Lesley Gill; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; Bolivia; Aymara; migrants; urban community; emplacement; identity; gender; social change; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi;

    Abstract : This study deals with cultural transformations and negotiations of social identity among urban Aymara speakers (bilingual Spanish-Aymara) in the city of La Paz in Bolivia in the last decade of the twentieth century. The main question concerns how they experience and express their sense of belonging in relation to their subordinated roles in society and the new spaces that are opened up by the democratization process. READ MORE