Red October

Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20155-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Bolivia witnessed a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle between 2000 and 2005 that overthrew two neoliberal presidents and laid the foundation for Evo Morales’ successful bid to become the country’s first indigenous head of state in 2006. Building on the theoretical traditions of revolutionary Marxism and indigenous liberation, this book provides an analytical framework for understanding the fine-grained sociological and political nuances of twenty-first century Bolivian class-struggle, state-repression, and indigenous resistance, as well the deeply historical roots of today’s oppositional traditions. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including more than 80 in-depth interviews with social-movement and trade-union activists, Red October is a ground-breaking intervention in the study of contemporary Bolivia and the wider Latin American turn to the left over the last decade.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Marxist and indigenous-liberationist theories of resistance and social change, Bolivian and Latin-American social-movements, political economy, sociology, and history, and the contemporary Latin-American Left.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Webber, Jeffery R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Acronyms

1. Politics of Indigenous Resistance and Class-Struggle
2. Indigenous Insurgency, Working-Class Struggle, and Popular Cultures of Resistance and Opposition, 1781–1964
3. Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Popular Struggle, 1964–85
4. Neoliberal Counterrevolution, 1985–2000
5. Left-Indigenous Insurrectionary Cycle, 2000–3
6. Red October: Gas-War, 2003
7. Carlos Mesa and a Divided Country: Left-Indigenous and Eastern Bourgeois Blocs in the Second Gas-War of May and June, 2005
8. Combined Oppositional Consciousness
9. Conclusion: Bolivia, Venezuela, and the Latin-American Left

Appendix A. Formal Interviewees
Appendix B. Methodology
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Webber, Jeffery R.
Jeffery R. Webber, Ph.D. (2009) in Political Science, University of Toronto, is Lecturer in the School of Politics and International relations at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia.