Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia Contributor(s): Webber, Jeffery R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004201556 ISBN-13: 9789004201552 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $155.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
Dewey: 303.484 |
LCCN: 2011012999 |
Series: Historical Materialism Books |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.5" W x 9.7" (1.75 lbs) 400 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Bolivia witnessed a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle between 2000 and 2005 that overthrew two neoliberal presidents and laid the foundation for Evo Morales' successful bid to become the country's first indigenous head of state in 2006. Building on the theoretical traditions of revolutionary Marxism and indigenous liberation, this book provides an analytical framework for understanding the fine-grained sociological and political nuances of twenty-first century Bolivian class-struggle, state-repression, and indigenous resistance, as well the deeply historical roots of today's oppositional traditions. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including more than 80 in-depth interviews with social-movement and trade-union activists, Red October is a ground-breaking intervention in the study of contemporary Bolivia and the wider Latin American turn to the left over the last decade. |