Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced : Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land.

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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.

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.

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