: Schurr Carolin
: Performing Politics, Making Space A Visual Ethnography of Political Change in Ecuador
: Franz Steiner Verlag
: 9783515105651
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Constructing more inclusive political spaces has been a central concern of social movements in postcolonial societies. This e-book engages with Ecuador's recent processes of political transformation by questioning to what extent these contribute to a decolonization of Ecuador's democracy.

Based on visual ethnographic research in Ecuadorian local politics, it interrogates the effect of women's and indigenous people's political participation on building more inclusive, intercultural political spaces. The volume develops a poststructuralist electoral geography capturing the embodied, emotional, and intersectional performances that produce political spaces.

In doing so, it breaks new empirical ground and expands the field of electoral geography, connecting it to current conceptual debates in human geography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS6
LIST OF FIGURES10
GEOGRAPHIES OF THANKS12
THREE VIGNETTES: ENCOUNTERING WOMEN IN ELECTORAL POLITICS18
1. INTRODUCING POLITICAL CHANGE IN ECUADOR20
SEARCHING FOR A FEMINIST ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY23
PUZZLING OVER POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN ECUADOR28
TRAVELING THROUGH ECUADORIAN LOCAL POLITICS36
2. RETHINKING ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY40
THEORISING SPACES OF DEMOCRACY44
Understanding (Spaces of) Politics as Antagonistic44
From the Performativity of Gender to Performative Spaces of Politics50
The Emotional Spaces of Passionate Politics54
(Spaces of) Politics at the ‘Crossroad’ of Gender, Ethnicity, Class and Locality57
Rethinking Electoral Geography through Feminist Theories62
STUDYING POLITICAL PRACTICES IN LOCAL SPACES OF POLITICS64
3. THE PERFORMATIVITY OF POST-COLONIAL POLITICS74
TAKING BUTLER AND MOUFFE ELSEWHERE74
THINKING SPACE THROUGH PERFORMATIVITY AND ANTAGONISM75
HEGEMONY, POWER AND SPACES OF POLITICS78
CONTESTING (POST-)COLONIAL POLITICAL HEGEMONIES83
PERFORMING ANTAGONISM IN CHIMBORAZO’S LOCAL POLITICS85
INTERCULTURALIDAD AS AGONISTIC POLITICS90
TOWARDS A POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CHANGE94
4. A VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF POLITICAL PERFORMANCES96
OPENING CREDITS96
GENRE: VISUALIZING THE PERFORMATIVE TURN97
STAGE DIRECTION: STRUGGLING WITH THE CAMERA IN THE FIELD100
ON THE SET: IDENTITY PERFORMANCES ON THE POLITICAL STAGE101
CLOSING CREDITS105
5. PERFORMATIVE EMOTIONS IN ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNS110
QUE VIVA PACHAKUTIK: EMOTIONS IN LOCAL CAMPAIGNS110
THE PERFORMATIVITY OF EMOTIONS IN POLITICAL SPEECH112
RESEARCHING EMOTIONS115
EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF POPULISM117
EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF LOCAL CAMPAIGNING121
TOWARDS AN EMOTIONAL ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY126
6. THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF EMOTIONS IN CAMPAIGNS128
BRIDGING EMOTIONAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES129
RESEARCHING EMOTIONS FROM AN INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE130
STRUCTURAL INTERSECTIONALITIES AS CAUSE AND TARGET OF COLLECTIVE FEELINGS131
DISCOURSES AROUND THE WHITENESS AND MASCULINITY OF ECUADOR’S POLITICAL SPACES134
EMOTIONAL PERFORMANCES AS PART OF POLITICAL IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS135
THINKING EMOTIONS FROM AN INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE137
7. RETHINKING GENDER QUOTAS INTERSECTIONALLY142
ACCESSING ECUADORIAN POLITICS142
INTERSECTIONALITY IN ELECTORAL POLITICS143
RESEARCHING INTERSECTIONALITY IN ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY146
GENDER QUOTAS AS A MECHANISM FOR ENRICHING DEMOCRATIC INCLUSION?148
INTERSECTIONAL POLITICAL AGENDAS?152
A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON GENDER QUOTAS165
8. TACKLING FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUETHROUGH PARTICIPATORY AND INTERSECTIONAL APPROACHES168
FACING FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUE168
TOWARDS A FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL RESEARCH AGENDA169
PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES BETWEEN TYRANNY AND TRANSFORMATION170
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT INTERSECTIONALITY173
DEVELOPING TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST RESEARCH PRACTICES177
9. TOWARDS FEMINIST ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHIES182
(HOW) DO WOMEN DO POLITICS?182
PERFORMING POLITICS183
MAKING SPACE FOR FEMINIST ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHIES186
REFERENCES190