Neoliberal discourses and ethnonormative regime in post-recognition Peru: redefining hierarchies and identities.
This article analyses the impact of ‘recognition’ of cultural and ethnic diversity in Peru. It proposes that the rise of a new global ‘ethnonormativity’ - a regime to define and administrate cultural and identity differences, to establish boundaries between those who ‘are’ ethnic and those who are n...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 477 - 497 |
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