Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies (University of North Carolina Press Paperback)) - Softcover

Fabricant, Nicole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807872490 ISBN 13: 9780807872499

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012

Synopsis

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 peasants politicized indigeneity to shape grassroots land politics, reform the state, and secure human and cultural rights for Native peoples.
Fabricant takes readers into the personal spaces of home and work, on long bus rides, and into meetings and newly built MST settlements to show how, in response to displacement, Indigenous identity is becoming ever more dynamic and adaptive. In addition to advancing this rich definition of indigeneity, she explores the ways in which Morales has found himself at odds with Indigenous activists and, in so doing, shows that Indigenous people have a far more complex relationship to Morales than is generally understood.

About this title

Book Description:

"A beautifully written book about citizenship that is an ethnography of globalization as well as a sharp contribution to debates about indigeneity."--Andrew Canessa, University of Essex

About the Author:

Nicole Fabricant is assistant professor of anthropology at Towson University.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0807872490
• ISBN 13: 9780807872499
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276