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Author Fabricant, Nicole.

Title Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced : Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages)
Series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Names; Introduction: Indigeneity, Resources, and the Limitations of a Social Movement State; Part I: History of Resource Struggles in Bolivia; 1 Sediments Of History: Resources, Rights, and Indigenous Politics; 2 The Making Of A Movement In Santa Cruz: Uneven Regional Agrarian Development in Obispo Santiesteban and Ichilo; Part Ii: Manufacturing Identity and Territorializing Rights; 3 Ayllu Democracy: Indigenous Law and Collective Governance as Territorial Protection; 4 Agrarian Citizenship: Alternative Models of Production and Food Sovereignty
Part Iii: Symbolic Citizenship and New Forms of Statehood5 Mobile ""Indigenous"" Citizenship: Marching for a New Agrarian Reform Law; 6 A Social Movement State: Indigeneity in Morales's Bolivia and a Compromised Constitution; Conclusion: Revisiting Indigeneity in Resource Politics and the Battles That Lie Ahead; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary 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 peasa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Movimiento Sin Tierra (Bolivia)
SUBJECT Movimiento Sin Tierra (Bolivia) fast
Subject Land reform -- Bolivia -- History -- 21st century
Peasants -- Political activity -- Bolivia -- History -- 21st century
Indians of South America -- Land tenure -- Bolivia -- History -- 21st century
Indians of South America -- Bolivia -- Politics and government
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Indians of South America -- Land tenure
Indians of South America -- Politics and government
Land reform
Peasants -- Political activity
Bolivia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012016634
ISBN 9780807837511
0807837512
9781469601458
1469601451