Grisaffi Coca Yes, Cocaine No

How Bolivia's Coca Growers Reshaped Democracy
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0433-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party, showing how the realities of international politics hindered MAS leader Evo Morales from scaling up the party's form of grassroots democracy to the national level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grisaffi, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: To Lead by Obeying 1
1. The Rise of the Coca Unions 27
2. The Lowest Rung of the Cocaine Trade 58
3. Self-Governing in the Chapare 84
4. From Class to Ethnicity 109
5. Community Coca Control 128
6. The Unions and Local Government 150
7. The Coca Union's Radio Station 173
Conclusion 192
Notes 203
References 215
Index 249

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Grisaffi is Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading.