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Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle Over Land
Contributor(s): Fabricant, Nicole (Author)
ISBN: 0807872490     ISBN-13: 9780807872499
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE:   $40.38  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Indigenous Studies
- Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American
- History | Latin America - South America
Dewey: 333.318
LCCN: 2012016634
Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies (University of North Carolina Press Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.88 lbs) 276 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
 
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Publisher Description:
The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's 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, Bolivia's MST activists seized unproductive land and built farming collectives as a means of resistance to large-scale export-oriented agriculture. In Mobilizing Bolivia's 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Fabricant, Nicole: - Nicole Fabricant is assistant professor of anthropology at Towson University.