The Indigenous State

Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia

Nancy Postero (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29403-5 (ISBN)

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In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new "democratic cultural revolution," Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. In this book, the author examines the successes and failures in the ten years since Morales' election.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new "democratic cultural revolution," Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. In this perceptive new book, Nancy Postero examines the successes and failures that have followed in the ten years since Morales's election. While the Morales government has made many changes that have benefited Bolivia's majority indigenous population, it has also consolidated power and reinforced extractivist development models. In the process, indigeneity has been transformed from a site of emancipatory politics to a site of liberal nation-state building. By carefully tracing the political origins and practices of decolonization among activists, government administrators, and ordinary citizens, Postero makes an important contribution to our understanding of the meaning and impact of Bolivia's indigenous state.

Nancy Postero is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Post-Multicultural Bolivia.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The “Cultural Democratic Revolution” of Evo Morales

Part One. Refounding the State
1. The Emergence of Indigenous Nationalism in Bolivia: Social Movements and the MAS State
2. The Constituent Assembly: Challenges to Liberalism
3. Wedding the Nation: Spectacle and Political Performance

Part Two. Development and Decolonization
4. Living Well? The Battle for National Development
5. Race and Racism in the New Bolivia
6. From Indigeneity to Economic Liberation
7. Charagua’s Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy

Conclusion: Between Politics and Policing

Notes
Credits for Previously Published Materials
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2017
Zusatzinfo	15 photos, scattered
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-29403-3 / 0520294033
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29403-5 / 9780520294035
Zustand	Neuware