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Teetering on the rim : global restructuring, daily life, and the armed retreat of the Bolivian state / Lesley Gill.
Lippincott Library HC183.E4 G54 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gill, Lesley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- El Alto (Bolivia)--Economic conditions.
- El Alto (Bolivia).
- El Alto (Bolivia)--Social conditions.
- Bolivia--Economic policy.
- Bolivia.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- How is global and political economic restructuring affecting impoverished states and transforming the daily lives of ordinary people? This book offers a critique "from below" of what has been called neoliberalism--the latest set of capitalist-inspired policies that posit "the market" as the remedy for all social and economic problems.
- Contents:
- Part I Ruptures 23
- 2. City of the Future 25
- 3. Adjusting Poverty 47
- 4. Miners and the Politics of Revanchism 67
- 5. School Discipline 86
- 6. The Military and Daily Life 104
- Part 2 Reconfigurations 133
- 7. Power Lines 135
- 8. Global Connections 155
- 9. El Alto, the State, and the Capitalist Imperium 181.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 023111804X
- 0231118058
- OCLC:
- 42692288
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