El Programa Indigenista Andino en la prensa: Imágenes de lo indígena y la cooperación internacional para el desarrollo (1953-1965)
During the 1950s and 1960s, various Latin American countries implemented a series of development projects, which aimed at the modernization, and integration of indigenous peoples into their respective national communities. These indigenista development policies were entangled with processes of chara...
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2018
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| Summary: | During the 1950s and 1960s, various Latin American countries implemented a series of development projects, which aimed at the modernization, and integration of indigenous peoples into their respective national communities. These indigenista development policies were entangled with processes of characterization and classification of the indigenous population. This article focuses on the history of one of these projects, the Andean Indian Program (AIP), organized by Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru in conjunction with the International Labor Organization (1953-1969). It investigates how images of the Andean indigenous population were created and applied in press coverage of the AIP. Comparing the regional and super regional press coverage, the analysis shows how the promoters of the AIP in the state administrations as well as in the international organizations characterized the indigenous publicly as objects of national development respectively international humanitarian aid. In this sense, the press coverage helped to legitimize the AIP and the underlying national and transnational policies while ignoring at the same time processes of social transformation and the agency and claims of the subaltern rural classes. The article contributes to a better historical understanding of the political communication revolving around an indigenista development program as well as the initial creation of stereotypes of indigenous underdevelopment, which persist to this day. |
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