Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia - Couverture souple

Postero, Nancy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520294033 ISBN 13 : 9780520294035

Editeur : University of California Press, 2017

Synopsis

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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 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520294033
• ISBN 13: 9780520294035
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible