Gustafson Bolivia in the Age of Gas

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1252-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 327 Seiten

Bret Gustafson examines the centrality of natural gas and oil to the making of modern Bolivia and the contradictory convergence of fossil-fueled capitalism, Indigenous politics, and revolutionary nationalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gustafson, Bret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations ix
Note on Labels and Language xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Gaseous State 1
Part One. Time
1. Heroes of Chaco 27
2. Imperial Maneuvers 50
3. Las nalgas of YPFB 69
Part Two. Space
4. Gas Lock-In 97
5. Bulls and Beauty Queens 125
6. Just a Few Lashes 152
Part Three. Excess
7. Requiem for the Dead 179
8. Gas Work 202
9. Quarrel over the Excess 223
Postscript. Bolivia 2020 247
Notes 255
References 271
Index 293

Über Autor(innen)

Bret Gustafson is Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia, also published by Duke University Press.