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Red October : left-indigenous struggles in modern Bolivia / by Jeffery R. Webber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webber, Jeffery R.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; v. 29.
- Historical materialism book series ; v. 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social movements--Bolivia.
- Social movements.
- Right and left (Political science).
- Politics and government.
- Social change.
- Bolivia.
- Social change--Bolivia.
- Social conflict--Bolivia.
- Social conflict.
- Indians of South America--Bolivia--Politics and government.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Bolivia--Government relations.
- Peasants--Political activity--Bolivia.
- Peasants.
- Peasants--Political activity.
- Bolivia--Politics and government--21st century.
- Right and left (Political science)--Bolivia.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 376 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Summary:
- Recent Bolivian politics has been rocked by a left-indigenous cycle of extra-parliamentary insurrection which led to the removal of two neoliberal presidents and the election of Bolivia's first ever indigenous president, Evo Morales. In this work, Webber (politics and international relations, U. of London, England) provides a combined Marxist historical materialist and indigenous-liberationist analysis of this phenomenon, arguing that "a specific combination of elaborate infrastructures of class-struggle and social-movement unionism, historical traditions of indigenous and working-class radicalism, combined-oppositional consciousness, and fierce but insufficient state-repression, explain the depth, breadth, and radical character of recent left-indigenous mobilisations in Bolivia," thus providing an alternative analytical framework to the dominant liberal-institutionalist approach in European and American social-movement theory as it is applied to the Latin American context. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004201552
- 9004201556
- OCLC:
- 702615799
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