clockwork in bolivia
29Jun14
According to Bolivia’s foreign minister, David Choquehuanca, the horological initiative is intended to help Bolivians rediscover their indigenous roots.
“We’re in the south and, as we’re trying to recover our identity, the Bolivian government is also recovering its sarawi, which means ‘way’ in Aymara,” he said. “In keeping with our sarawi – or Nan, in Quechua – our clocks should turn to the left.”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Closed
- If you're a scholar, and you find some of your work featured on the blog, then chances are that we want it for our journal.
-
what’s new
- The living archive: Rita Orihuela-Anaya, Meenakshi Richardson, Gladys Gamarra, Angela Alva, Hernán Lauracio Ticona, Carlos Arosquipa Rodriguez, Magaly M Blas, ‘Mamás de la Frontera: Empowering perspectives of Indigenous community health workers along the Putumayo River in the Peruvian Amazon’, Journal of Community Systems for Health, 2, 2, 2025
- The active archive: Rose Miron, Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory, University of Minnesota Press, 2024
- Always beware of the green settler: Grey Weinstein, Angel White, ‘Green Technologies, White Colonies: Zionism and the Colonial Uses of “Indigeneity” and “Environmentalism”’, Critical Zionism Studies, 2, 1, 2025
- The climate crisis and the crisis of settler colonialism (with a chapter on the ‘History of Settler Colonialism’): Sarah Haley Knowles, Diminished Prosperity: How a Warming Planet Impedes Healthy Families, Communities, and Economies, Palgrave, 2025
- An olive grove is not a pine forest: Christopher C. Jadallah, ‘What could be more innocent than planting trees? Thinking with Palestine in land education’, Curriculum Inquiry, 2026
- Indigenising Argentina’s settler history: Robert Christensen, ‘Ethnohistory and Indigenous People on Argentina’s Southern Frontier: Pampas-Patagonia, 1810-1885’, History Compass, 2025
- Žižek’s settler colonialism: Jamil Khader, ‘Universalizing Capital, Foreclosing Necro-Imperialism: Žižek’s Liberal-Zionist Response to the Gaza Genocide’, Middle East Critique, 2026
- The settler local state and its representation: Karen Bird, Abbey Forbes, Gloria Liu, Maïa Rousseau, ‘Talk matters: local council debates over electoral reform for Indigenous representation in Canada and New Zealand’, Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 30, 2025
- The settler state and the settler people: Richard Howson, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou, ‘Gramsci and “The Voice”: Closing the Gap Between “The Social” and “The Political” in Australia’s failed 2023 Referendum on Indigenous representation’, International Gramsci Journal, 6, 2, 2025
- Settler colonial violence is gendered: Emily Grafton, Amber Fletcher, ‘Settler Colonial Saskatchewan and Gender based Violence Against Indigenous Women’, Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, 12, 2, 2025
- The settler colonial future is bleak: Stefanus Galang Ardana, ‘Whose Apocalypse? Unfuturability and the Politics of Settler-Colonial Futurity in Western Apocalyptic Narratives’, Retorik, 13, 2, 2025
- The port, and the settler hinterlands: Olivia Irena Durand, ‘Labour, trade, and settler colonisation: the role of Odessa and New Orleans on new imperial peripheries’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2025
- The settler’s cosmopolitanism (cosmosettlerism): Fabián Flores Silva, ‘Kantian Cosmopolitanisms Encountering Isolated Indigenous Groups: Between Ambiguous Anti-colonialism and Risky Oversight’, Revista de ciencia política (Santiago), 45, 3, 2025
- The settler’s anthropocentrism (settlerocentrism): Avlokita Sodhi, ‘The Settler’s Gaze: Patrick White and the Problem of Anthropocentrism’, Literary Endeavour, 2025, 119-123
- And now, ending a massive year in settler colonialism (and inaugurating the Permanent Observatory on Settler Colonialism): Ohio Barbarian, ‘We Are All Indigenous Now: How financial cleansing supplanted ethnic cleansing in the United States’, 29/12/25
contribute
settler colonial studies blog 