A revolution for our rights : indigenous struggles for land and justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952 / Laura Gotkowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gotkowitz, Laura.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Bolivia--Cochabamba (Dept.)--Government relations.

Indians of South America--Civil rights--Bolivia--Cochabamba (Dept.).

Social movements--Bolivia--History--20th century.

Bolivia--History--Revolution, 1952--Causes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Analyzes struggles over citizenship and nationhood in Bolivia, following the fate of subaltern projects for political inclusion and asking why ethnic/racial claims were more effectively incorporated into the revolutionary agenda than were gender demands.

Contents:

The peculiar paths of the liberal project

Indigenista statecraft and the rise of the caciques apoderados

"In our provinces there is no justice" : caciques apoderados and the crisis of the liberal project

The problem of national unity : from the Chaco War to the 1938 Constitutional Convention

The unruly countryside : defending land, labor rights, and autonomy

The unwilling city : Villarroel populism and the politics of mestizaje

"The disgrace of the Pongo and the Mitani" : the 1945 indigenous congress and a law against servitude

"Under the dominion of the Indian" : the 1947 cycle of unrest

Conclusion and epilogue : rethinking the rural roots of the 1952 revolution.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-384) and index.

ISBN:

9786613023278

9780822340492

0822340496

9781283023276

128302327X

OCLC:

271168176