{"title":"Nos Falta Capacidad","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines how, competitive, and enterprising subjectivities were promoted through individualized capacity development in San Pedro Necta, and how it gave rise to capacidad, (training and development) as a new norm that has reorganized local conceptions and practices of self and society and promoted a new way to differentiate and rank. It is both a driver of deepening class divisions, and a way of rationalizing them. I ethnographically depict different social categories related to capacidad and explore how capacidad has enabled new economic practices, created conditions for the articulation of indigenous identity, and reshaped gender relations. The conclusion reflects on the forms of exclusion inherent in this model of advancement, and points to other ways to be human that exceed and resist the normalizing effects of capacidad.","PeriodicalId":146496,"journal":{"name":"The Democracy Development Machine","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126347575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parties and Projects","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the cutthroat world of party politics in San Pedro, focusing on its assumptions, rules and effects on political thought and practice. Party politics is organized almost entirely around the local clientelist distribution of development “projects”—which can be anything from electricity, to water, a job, or a stove—to the exclusion of national politics. Candidates from nearly a dozen party factions promise projects for votes. This is a zero sum situation rife with corruption that structurally excludes the majority, resulting in division and resentment, as villagers take an active role in consigning their neighbors to abandonment—a brutal democratization of sovereign power. Through these processes, Sampedranos have learned to think of development in reduced and local ways rather than nationally, and to blame their leaders and each other for poverty. But this also fueled earnest critiques of clientelism and calls to distribute resources to the most vulnerable.","PeriodicalId":146496,"journal":{"name":"The Democracy Development Machine","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126395817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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