Müller, Andrea Heidy (2021). Entangled Spaces in the Andes: Liberation of 'the Poor' and International Development Cooperation in Ecuador (1970s). In: Büschges, Christian; Müller, Andrea; Oehri, Noah (eds.) Liberation Theology and the Others: Contextualizing Catholic Activism in 20th Century Latin America. Lanham: Lexington
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)This chapter seeks to analyze the entanglements between pastoral practices in the context of liberation theology and international development cooperation in Ecuador during the second half of the 20th century. During the 1960s and 1970s, new paradigms of modernization and development marked the engagement for the socio-economic improvement of the population of the Andes. In line with that, the solution of the so-called 'Indian problem' was at the top of the agenda of the government, international development organizations and reform-oriented Catholics. By focusing on a Swiss-Ecuadorean collaboration between members of the Catholic Church and development aid workers, this chapter argues that the 'liberation of the poor' must be analyzed in the context of the internationalization and professionalization of development cooperation in the second half of the 20th century. In the 1970s, despite liberation theology’s claim to replace paternalistic paradigms of development with emancipatory movements, this theological current favored the increasing presence of international development agencies in the region.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Institute of History, Iberian and Latin American History |
UniBE Contributor: |
Müller, Andrea Heidy |
Subjects: |
900 History > 980 History of South America |
ISBN: |
978-1-7936-3363-7 |
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Lexington |
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English |
Submitter: |
Andrea Heidy Müller |
Date Deposited: |
09 Sep 2021 11:36 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:52 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/158364 |
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