The sovereign street : making revolution in urban Bolivia / Carwil Bjork-James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bjork-James, Carwil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--Bolivia--History--21st century.

Protest movements.

Bolivia--History--1982-.

Bolivia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The Sovereign Street analyzes how indigenous-led mass movements and protests in urban space reconfigured the politics and racial order of Bolivia from 1999 to 2011. Through protest actions that took over the streets, Bolivians realigned the political system, placing social movements, community organizations, and politically and racially excluded groups at the center of civic and political life. Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork and oral history interviews in Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz, the book argues that mass protests succeed by demonstrating their own political legitimacy, control over space, and ability to affect daily life. By focusing on issues studied by ethnographers-social life as experienced through the human body, the meanings attached to place, and social movement practices-it explains how race and power are lived and changed through street protest. It also charts the emerging tensions between President Evo Morales' government and left grassroots movements, and demonstrates how the same processes of protest and disruption that brought him to power have become the key methods for challenging his leadership"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Urban Space Claiming and Revolutionary Events

2. "This, This Is How We Have to All Fight Together": The Water War as Precedent and Prototype

3. The Power of Interruption: From Blockades to Civic Strikes

4. The Sovereign Street: How Protests Become "the Voice of the People"

5. "We're No Longer Just Tenants": Indigenous Bodies Defiantly out of Place

6. Who Owns the City?: Race and Space During the Catastrophic Stalemate

7. A House Divided: Mobilization and Countermobilization Within the Plurinational State

Conclusion: A New Way of Doing Politics

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-4133-7

OCLC:

1146268185