Plebeian Power: Collective Action and Indigenous, Working-Class and Popular Identities in Bolivia Contributor(s): Linera, Álvaro García (Author) |
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ISBN: 1608464091 ISBN-13: 9781608464098 Publisher: Haymarket Books OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | Political Economy |
Dewey: 331.880 |
Series: Historical Materialism Book |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Best known for his role as Evo Morales's vice-president, lvaro Garc a Linera is also known across Latin America as one of Bolivia's foremost intellectuals. With a theoretical trajectory beginning in efforts to combine Marxism and Indianism, then developed in reaction to the neoliberal turn of the 1980s and in contact with the mass social movements of recent years, Garc a Linera's magisterial Plebeian Power can be read as both an evolving analysis of Bolivian reality through periods of great social change, and as an intellectual biography of the author himself. Informed by such thinkers as Marx, Bourdieu and Ren Zavaleta, Garc a Linera reflects on the nature of the state, class and indigenous identity and their relevance to social struggles in Bolivia. |