Along The Bolivian Highway

Author : Miriam Shakow
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209826
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along the Bolivian Highway written by Miriam Shakow and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the Bolivian Highway traces the emergence of a new middle class in Bolivia, a society commonly portrayed as the site of struggle between a superwealthy white minority and a destitute indigenous majority. Miriam Shakow shows how Bolivian middle classes have deeply shaped politics and social life. While national political leaders like Evo Morales have proclaimed a new era of indigenous power and state-led capitalism in place of racial exclusion and neoliberal free trade, Bolivians of indigenous descent who aspire to upward mobility have debated whether to try to rise within their country's longstanding hierarchies of race and class or to break down those hierarchies. The ascent of indigenous politics, and a boom in coca and cocaine production beginning in the 1970s, have created dilemmas for "middling" Bolivians who do not fit the prevailing social binaries of white elite and indigenous poor. In their family relationships, political activism, and community life, the new middle class confronted competing moral imperatives. Focusing on social and political struggles that hinged on class and racial status in a provincial boomtown in central Bolivia, Shakow recounts the experiences of first-generation teachers, agronomists, lawyers, and prosperous merchants. They puzzled over whom to marry, how to claim public interest in the face of accusations of selfishness, and whether to seek political patronage jobs amid high unemployment. By linking the intimate politics within families to regional and national power struggles, Along the Bolivian Highway sheds light on what it means to be middle class in the global south.

Author : Carwil Bjork-James
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816540152
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sovereign Street written by Carwil Bjork-James and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politically, rivaling and at times exceeding voting booths and halls of government. The Sovereign Street documents this important period, showing how indigenous-led mass movements reconfigured the politics and racial order of Bolivia from 1999 to 2011. Drawing on interviews with protest participants, on-the-ground observation, and documentary research, activist and scholar Carwil Bjork-James provides an up-close history of the indigenous-led protests that changed Bolivia. At the heart of the study is a new approach to the interaction between protest actions and the parts of the urban landscape they claim. These “space-claiming protests” both communicate a message and exercise practical control over the city. Bjork-James interrogates both protest tactics—as experiences and as tools—and meaning-laden spaces, where meaning is part of the racial and political geography of the city. Taking the streets of Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz as its vantage point, The Sovereign Streetoffers a rare look at political revolution as it happens. It documents a critical period in Latin American history, when protests made headlines worldwide, where a generation of pro-globalization policies were called into question, and where the indigenous majority stepped into government power for the first time in five centuries.

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
ISBN 13 : 7535175775
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Bolivia written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bolivia, officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a country located in South America. It shares borders with Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, and Argentina. Bolivia's geography is diverse, with the Andes mountain range dominating the western portion of the country and the Amazon rainforest covering most of the east. Bolivia is known for its cultural heritage, which is heavily influenced by the native indigenous population. The official languages are Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua. Bolivia's economy is primarily centered around the natural resources of oil, gas, mining, and agriculture. Despite being ranked as one of the poorest countries in South America, Bolivia has a rich history and culture that continue to thrive today.

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Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Trade Information Service written by United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Agency for International Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Bolivia, Highway Maintenance Equipment written by United States. Agency for International Development and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hazel and Marshall Thompson
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490751521
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Adventures in Bolivia written by Hazel and Marshall Thompson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is strange which incidents in a long life will stick in your mind and recall in detail when stimulated by pictures, smells, or word triggers that bring to mind the occasion. This book is a collection of such memories, each reflecting the emotions and physical stimuli that accompany that moment in life. Each of us is the receptor and participant in that incident forever recorded in our store of significant moments in our lives; most are shared scenarios, but many are private, some secret, memories to be cherished or avoided in our daily routine. So many memories are lost, yet so many preserved and recalled occasionally or routinely. A few are forgotten only to be resurrected on some significant occasion. We have walked in these paths of recall from the start and to the completion of this book

Author : Marcela López Levy
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 : 9780855984557
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bolivia written by Marcela López Levy and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding series provides concise and lively introductions to countries such as Bolivia and the major development issues they face. Packed full of factual information, photographs and maps, the guides also focus on ordinary people and the impact that historical, economic and environmental issues have on their lives.

Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Trade in Commodities written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bret Gustafson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012528
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bolivia in the Age of Gas written by Bret Gustafson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country's natural gas reserves. In Bolivia in the Age of Gas, Bret Gustafson explores how the struggle over natural gas has reshaped Bolivia, along with the rise, and ultimate fall, of the country's first Indigenous-led government. Rethinking current events against the backdrop of a longer history of oil and gas politics and military intervention, Gustafson shows how natural gas wealth brought a measure of economic independence and redistribution, yet also reproduced political and economic relationships that contradicted popular and Indigenous aspirations for radical change. Though grounded in the unique complexities of Bolivia, the volume argues that fossil-fuel political economies worldwide are central to the reproduction of militarism and racial capitalism and suggests that progressive change demands moving beyond fossil-fuel dependence and the social and ecological ills that come with it.