
Juliane MüllerUniversity of Barcelona | UB · Department of Social Anthropology
Juliane Müller
Doctor of Philosophy
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This article deals with disputes over customs control and the wealth of cross-border trade in the western department of Oruro, Bolivia. I argue that the issue is not so much the legality of the smuggled merchandise but the legitimacy and sovereignty of the border itself. Various state and non-state actors are engaged in "border work"; disputes over...
This introduction to the dossier Espacios transfronterizos de los Andes: Regímenes de regulación, acumulación y distribución entre el Estado y los grupos aymara y quechua has two main aims: First, we offer a theoretical perspective to analyze regimes of regulation, accumulation and distribution that materialize in transnational commodity flows, cro...
This article offers a nuanced ethnographic description of the encounter between multinational corporations and the economic actors who distribute and commercialize their commodities. By analyzing the labor of lower-level employees and the strategies of the middle management of Samsung Electronics Bolivia against traders’ practices and understanding...
The public display and lavish spending of wealth for other-than-economic ends has been a topic of vital importance in anthropology and sociology. Studies on the expansion of markets and transnational mobility in Latin American rely on the persistent idea that new economic riches are turned into recognition, prestige and power through feast sponsors...
The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. Contributors address case studies in Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, and Pe...
This chapter explores a phenomenological ethnography of sport practice. During the course of my research, I became actively engaged in football teams of migrant women. I discuss how this deepened my understanding of the meanings of the sport in this specific context and examine what I learned about the technical skills, social interactions and emot...
Este artículo analiza la configuración cambiante del comercio regional de artefactos electrónicos. Basado en un trabajo etnográfico iniciado en 2013 en varias localidades (mercados populares en La Paz, Bolivia, y la zona franca de Iquique, norte de Chile) y en un análisis histórico de las últimas tres décadas, el objetivo ha sido comprender la cone...
Este artículo estudia el mercado de equipos electrónicos en La Paz. Se analizan los mecanismos sociales y los discursos alrededor de la regulación de la competencia y de la cooperación entre los diferentes actores, negocios familiares y empresas multinacionales. Se busca mostrar que el mercado está constituido por diversos espacios de regulación cu...
Trade in consumer electronics and household appliances in Bolivia operates mainly from popular marketplaces. Multinational corporations enter these once informal, now enhanced economies. This article analyses the expansion of global brands into urban street markets, together with the local branding of electronics and the advancement of popular trad...
In the Andes, being a viajero/a, means to be an itinerant trader. Trade unions of mobile merchants and fair-goers identify as travelers. Numerous people from across Bolivia, in particular women of indigenous Aymara origin, travel throughout the country and beyond to sustain their livelihoods. They have traded increasingly since the financial crisis...
Zusammenfassung Die MAS-Regierung in Bolivien verfolgt das Modell einer Pluralen Ökonomie, das neben dem staatlichen und privatwirtschaftlichen, auch einen indigen-gemeinschaftlichen und einen sozial-kooperativen Sektor benennt und fördert. Als Alternative zum Neoliberalismus werden verwandte Konzepte auch in anderen Ländern Lateinamerikas in Wisse...
This essay relates current debates in the social sciences on international labour migration, ethnicity and migrant organisation with amateur sport. It looks at self-organisations of South American men and women in Seville (Spain) in the realm of football. This approach explicitly locates a sport-related phenomenon within the wider context of migran...
The presence of Evo Morales in the government of Bolivia raised expectations of change with regard to the politics of memory, justice, and the social and economic compensation for victims of the country's dictatorships between 1964 and 1982. However, according to human rights organizations, these expectations have been only partly fulfilled. This c...
Dieses Buch wirft einen kritischen Blick auf die sozialen, machtpolitischen, historischen und mythischen Strukturen des populären Fußballsports. Die Verquickungen von Fußball mit Prozessen von Macht und Politik werden an verschiedenen Fallstudien durch Beiträge aus unterschiedlichsten Blickwinkeln beleuchtet: Kulturanthropologie, Geschichte (Maya u...
Existe una narrativa convencional para contar la historia del fútbol en Bolivia. Un relato que vincula la llegada de ingleses involucrados en la construcción de ferrocarriles con la fundación del primer club en el país, el Oruro Royal. A partir de ahí, esta versión concentra su mirada en el devenir de las asociaciones deportivas urbanas y suele con...
In this paper, I will analyse the football practices of South American, mainly Bolivian and Ecuadorian, migrants in Spain. Through their football leagues – which are highly organized, involve both sexes and are played on communal sports fields – first generation migrant workers build social networks, appropriate urban space and demand public attent...
Los inmigrados en España, especialmente de países andinos, han constituido un movimiento asociativo emergente que ha tomado cuerpo en ligas autogestionadas de fútbol y futsal. En dichas ligas la participación femenina es significativa. ¿Cómo entender esta práctica deportiva de las mujeres? Este artículo se centra en el estudio de redes migratorias,...
Fußball-Ligen und -Clubs sind zentrale Vereinigungen von Arbeitsmigranten aus den Andenländern. Erst seit wenigen Jahren in Spanien und auf dem informellen Arbeitsmarkt beschäftigt, tragen sie hochformalisierte Ligen aus und setzen viel Energie in die Suche nach Sportanlagen und in interne Diskussionen. Juliane Müller untersucht die soziale Organis...
This article deals with the organisation and realisation of South American migrant football leagues and so-called Small World-Championships for migrants in Spain in recent years. We start from a practical (habitus) and poststructuralist perspective that emphasizes the role of discourse and power in the production of social order. The aim is to anal...
Die Integration von Migranten ist ein viel und kontrovers diskutiertes Thema. Konzepte von Rechtsangleichung, Anti-Diskriminierungspolitik und politischer Mitsprache werden allerdings kaum debattiert. Dabei leben rund sieben Millionen Menschen seit Jahrzehnten in Deutschland, ohne die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit zu besitzen.
Am empirischen Fallbei...
Los inmigrados en España, especialmente de países andinos, han constituido un movimiento asociativo emergente que ha tomado cuerpo en ligas autogestionadas de fútbol y futsal. En dichas ligas la participación femenina es significativa. ¿Cómo entender esta práctica deportiva de las mujeres? Este artículo se centra en el estudio de redes migratorias,...
ResumenIdioma La ponencia trata de investigar el papel que las ligas de fútbol organizadas por inmigrantes ecuatorianos y bolivianos en Madrid ejercen sobre la creación de una maquinaria financiera que abre un nicho económico importante para aumentar o completar los sueldos de algunos implicados en estas ligas. Por otra parte las asociaciones organ...
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This research tackles the endurance of hundreds of traders as market participants in the electronics trade in Bolivia and beyond – traders who not only regularly source in China, but are collectively organised and collaborate with national companies and global players such as Samsung and Huawei.