The rise of Evo Morales and the MAS / Sven Harten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harten, Sven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morales Ayma, Evo, 1959-.

Morales Ayma, Evo.

Movimiento al Socialismo (Bolivia).

Presidents--Bolivia--Biography.

Presidents.

Bolivia--Politics and government--2006-.

Bolivia.

Bolivia--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this insightful and revealing book, Sven Harten explains the success of the MAS and its wider consequences, showing how Morales has become the symbol for a new political consciousness that has entailed de-stigmatizing indigenous identities. It reveals the challenge of squaring the rupture with a discredited past with the continuity of democracy and the aim of representing an entire society.

Contents:

About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction | A Journey; Part I; 1 | Bolivia's political history; Crisis of representation in Bolivia; From revolution to dictatorship to transition: 1952-78; Bolivian nationalism: a brief history; The rise of democratic institutions without democratic politics; Coca: a cursed holy plant; 2 | Evo's youth and upbringing; Early life; Evo's university: looking for another form of democracy; The origins of Evo Morales's notion of the nation; 3 | The rise of the coca growers,mid-1980s to early 1990s; History of the coca growers' movement; Internal functioning

Coca discourse: defending the sacred leafPart II; 4 | Morales's political instrument? The creation of MAS, early 1990s; Brief history of the instrumento político MAS; Poisoned relations; MAS: a bottom-up perspective of the party; Old wine in new bottles, or something genuinely new?; 5 | Outside challengers riseamidst waves of protests, 1995-2002; Second-generation reforms; Party politics: where is the 'silent revolution'?; Waves of conflict; Las wawas crecen con mucha bronca; War on drugs; For our water and for our lives; Guerra del Agua in 2000; table 1 Chronology of the Water War; El Mallku

MASsive force?Guerra del Gas or Octubre Negro 2003; Conclusion; 6 | MAS assumes political dominance, 2002-05; Reaching out to other social movements; Institutionalizing party structures; Alvaro; How indigenous is MAS?; Leadership; Organizational problems; 7 | Compañero Evo, symbol of the pluricultural people; The people; Construction of identity; Conclusion; Part III; 8 | Bolivia's first indigenous president, 2005-10; Bolivia under President Morales; Imagining the 'plurinational nation'; 9 | Refounding the state: the foundational promise of populism; Building a new state: what had to change?

Principles of a new stateThe path to change: Asamblea Constituyente; Bolivia's new constitution; Conclusion; Conclusion | The difficult road ahead for President Morales and the MAS; The dangerous path towards re-institutionalization; Notes; Preface; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613070975

9781350222403

1350222402

9781780321325

1780321325

9781780327181

1780327188

9781283070973

1283070979

9781848135253

1848135254

OCLC:

721195079