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9%OFFNancy Grey Postero - Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia - 9780804755207 - V9780804755207
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Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia

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Description for Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia Paperback. The book traces current Indian activism in Bolivia, arguing that a new social formation is emerging to challenge racism and the harsh effects of the dominant neoliberal economic model. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 238 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.

Upon winning the 2005 presidential election, Evo Morales became the first indigenous person to lead Bolivia since the arrival of the Spanish more than five hundred years before. Morales’s election is the culmination of a striking new kind of activism in Bolivia. Born out of a history of resistance to colonial racism and developed in collective struggles against the post-revolutionary state, this movement crystallized over the last decade as poor and Indian Bolivian citizens engaged with the democratic promises and exclusions of neoliberal multiculturalism.

This ethnography of the Guaraní Indians of Santa Cruz traces how recent political reforms, most ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804755207
SKU
V9780804755207
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Nancy Grey Postero
Nancy Grey Postero is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She is coeditor of The Struggle for Indian Rights in Latin America (2004).

Reviews for Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia
"Postero's vantage point in a specific urban community enabled her to view Bolivian neoliberalism from below and to write an absorbing ethnography of reforms in action. . . Postero's reflexivity strikes just the right chord—her concise comments about herself are deftly woven into the narrative and come at just the right moment. Particularly striking is the discussion of how she ... Read more

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