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Plebeian power : collective action and Indigenous, working-class and popular identities in Bolivia / by Álvaro García Linera ; selection and introduction by Pablo Stefanoni ; translation by Shana Yael Shubs [and five others] ; technical review of the translation by Eugenia Cervio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- García Linera, Álvaro, author.
- Stefanoni, Pablo, author of introduction, etc.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; Volume 55.
- Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 55
- Standardized Title:
- Potencia plebeya. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor unions--Bolivia.
- Labor unions.
- Syndicalism--Bolivia.
- Syndicalism.
- Labor movement--Bolivia.
- Labor movement.
- Indians of South America--Bolivia--Government relations.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Bolivia--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In addition to his role as Evo Morales’s vice-president, Álvaro García Linera is one of Bolivia’s foremost intellectuals. With a theoretical trajectory beginning in efforts to combine Marxism and Indianism, then developed in reaction to the neoliberal turn of the 1980's and in contact with the mass social movements of recent years, García Linera's Plebeian Power can be read as both an evolving analysis of Bolivian reality through periods of great social change, and as an intellectual biography of the author himself. Informed by such thinkers as Marx, Bourdieu and René Zavaleta, García Linera reflects on the nature of the state, class and indigenous identity and their relevance to social struggles in Bolivia. English translation of La potencia plebeya: Acción colectiva e identidades indígenas, obreras y populares en Bolivia published by Siglo del Hombre Editores and CLASCO in 2007.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Álvaro García Linera: Reflections on Two Centuries of Bolivia / Pablo Stefanoni
- The Communist Manifesto and Our Present: Four Theses on Its Historical Actuality
- Citizenship and Democracy in Bolivia (1900–98)
- Historical Cycles in the Formation of the Condition of the Mining Working-Class in Bolivia (1825–1999)
- The Death of the Twentieth-Century Working-Class Condition
- The Colonial Narrative and Communal Narrative
- Indigenous Autonomies and the Multinational State
- Union, Multitude and Community: Social Movements and Forms of Political Autonomy in Bolivia
- The Crisis of the State and Indigenous-Plebeian Uprisings in Bolivia
- The Struggle for Power in Bolivia
- Indianism and Marxism: The Disparity between Two Revolutionary Rationales
- Bibliography of Álvaro García Linera
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- "First published in 2007 as La potencia plebeya: Accion colectiva e identidades indigenas, obreras y populares en Bolivia by CLACSO, Bogota."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-25444-7
- OCLC:
- 879947629
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