Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced (eBook)

Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land

Nicole Fabricant (Autor)

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2012
276 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9780807837511 (ISBN)

Infos

The election of Evo Morales as Bolivias president in 2005 made him his nations first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following in the tradition of the well-known Brazilian Landless movement, Bolivias MST activists seized unproductive land and built farming collectives as a means of resistance to large-scale export-oriented agriculture. In Mobilizing Bolivias Displaced, Nicole Fabricant illustrates how landless peasants politicized indigeneity to shape grassroots land politics, reform the state, and secure human and cultural rights for Native peoples.Fabricant takes readers into the personal spaces of home and work, on long bus rides, and into meetings and newly built MST settlements to show how, in response to displacement, Indigenous identity is becoming ever more dynamic and adaptive. In addition to advancing this rich definition of indigeneity, she explores the ways in which Morales has found himself at odds with Indigenous activists and, in so doing, shows that Indigenous people have a far more complex relationship to Morales than is generally understood.

Autor

Nicole Fabricant is assistant professor of anthropology at Towson University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.11.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
• Themenwelt: Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Immobilienwirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Agrarian Citizenship in Bolivia • Agrarian Citizenship in Bolivia / • cultural politics of resource struggles in Bolivia • Food sovereignty in Bolivia • indigenous politics in Bolivia • landless peasant politics in Bolivia • land rights in Bolivia • Organic farming in Bolivia • Performance of indigeneity • performative politics • resource-based struggles in Bolivia • right-wing organizing in Bolivia • Small-scale farming and local markets in Bolivia • Social Movements in Bolivia • state-making in Morales’s Bolivia • state-making in Morales�s Bolivia
• ISBN-13: 9780807837511 / 9780807837511