Christian Büschges – författare

Looking beyond prominent figures or major ecclesial events, Liberation Theology and the Others offers a fresh historical perspective on Latin American liberation theology. Thirteen case studies, from Mexico to Uruguay, depict a vivid picture of religious and lay activism that shaped the profile of the Latin American Catholic Church in the second half of the 20th century. Stressing the transnational character of Catholic activism and its intersections with prevalent discourses of citizenship, ethnicity or development, scholars from Latin America, the US, and Europe, analyze how pastoral renewal was debated and embraced in multiple local and culturally diverse contexts. Contributors explore the connections between Latin American liberation theology and anthropology in Peru, armed revolutionaries in highland Guatemala, and the implementation of neoliberalism in Bolivia. They identify conceptions of the popular church, indigenous religiosity, women’s leadership, and student activism that circulated among Latin American religious and lay activists between the 1960s and the 1980s. By revisiting the multifaceted and oftentimes contingent nature of church reforms, this edited volume provides fascinating new insights into one of the most controversial religious movements of the 20th century.

Der zweite Teil der Reihe mit kurzen Essays zu zentralen Diskussionen der zeitgenössischen Politikforschung.Einerseits wurden die in den 1990er Jahren weltweit erhobenen Forderungen indigener Völker nach kultureller Anerkennung und politischer Teilhabe vielfach als Ausdruck einer voranschreitenden Demokratisierung gedeutet, andererseits gelten die Bürgerkriege in Jugoslawien oder Ruanda im gleichen Jahrzehnt als Extremformen einer ethnischen Gewalt, die das politische Gemeinwesen zerstört. Christian Büschges untersucht dieses spannungsreiche Verhältnis von Ethnizität und Politik in historischer und systematischer Perspektive.

Although hip hop is now a well-established global music genre and cultural form, its history and current impact have not yet been sufficiently studied. The interdisciplinary contributions to this volume address hip hop's historical and regional struggles for representation of race, gender, generation, place, and language, as well as the tension between authenticity and commercialization. Contributors offer approaches to historicizing hip-hop culture, and present new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools for addressing hip hop's global impact. This volume targets not only scholars and students but also resonates with recent public debates about identity politics and cultural appropriation.

La región andina se caracteriza, en el nuevo milenio, por transformaciones radicales de sus culturas políticas. Los movimientos indígenas de Ecuador y Bolivia son paradigmáticos de un proceso de descolonización cultural que rompió con los esquemas poscoloniales de representación política. Junto a ello, se observa una ruptura con las políticas neoliberales que se expresa en una nueva izquierda latinoamericana asociada a nombres como Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales y Rafael Correa. El presente volumen reúne dieciocho contribuciones que analizan dichos cambios en las culturas políticas desde diversas perspectivas académicas. De este modo, Culturas políticas en la región andina constituye un aporte hacia un mayor entendimiento de un espacio político que está en movimiento.