Nelson Diane M. Nelson

Who Counts? (eBook, PDF)

The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide

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Produktbeschreibung

In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and disenfranchisement, as well as in Mayan revitalization and grassroots environmental struggles. In the aftermath of thirty-six years of civil war, to count-both numerically and in the sense of having value-is a contested and qualitative practice of complex calculations encompassing war losses, migration, debt, and competing understandings of progress. Nelson makes broad connections among seemingly divergent phenomena, such as debates over reparations for genocide victims, Ponzi schemes, and antimining movements. Challenging the presumed objectivity of Western mathematics, Nelson shows how it flattens social complexity and becomes a raced, classed, and gendered skill that colonial powers considered beyond the grasp of indigenous peoples. Yet the Classic Maya are famous for the precision of their mathematics, including conceptualizing zero long before Europeans. Nelson shows how Guatemala's indigenous population is increasingly returning to Mayan numeracy to critique systemic inequalities with the goal of being counted-in every sense of the word.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375074
• Artikelnr.: 54790181

Autorenporträt

Diane M. Nelson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  xi
-1. Chapter Minus One  1
Part I. When You Count You Begin with 1, 2, 3
0. Bookkeeping  7
1. Before and After-Math  37
Part II. Bonesetting
2. The Algebra of Genocide  63
3. Reunion of Broken Parts  93
Part III. Mayan Pyramids
4. 100% Omnilife  121
5. Mayan Pyramid (Scheme)  157
Part IV. Yes to Life = NO to Mining
6. A Life's Worth  189
7. Beyond Adequacy  227
Notes  265
References  281
Index  297