Dignity and defiance : stories from Bolivia's challenge to globalization /

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Dignity and Defiance is a powerful, eyewitness account of Bolivia's decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. Based on extensive interviews, this story comes alive with first-person accounts of a massive Enron/Shell oil spill from an elderly woman whose livelihood it thre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shultz, Jim, Draper, Melissa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Globalization > Economic aspects > Bolivia.
Investments, Foreign > Bolivia.
Mondialisation > Bolivie.
Investissements étrangers > Bolivie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Globalization > Economic aspects
International economic relations
Investments, Foreign
Bolivia > Foreign economic relations.
Bolivia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Melissa Crane Draper and Jim Shultz
  • The Cochabamba water revolt and its aftermath / Jim Shultz
  • A river turns black : Enron and Shell spread destruction across Bolivia's highlands / Christina Haglund
  • Oil and gas : the elusive wealth beneath their feet / Gretchen Gordon and Aaron Luoma
  • Lessons in blood and fire : the deadly consequences of IMF economics / Jim Shultz
  • Economic strings : the politics of foreign debt / Nick Buxton
  • Coca : the leaf at the center of the war on drugs / Caroline S. Conzelman [and others]
  • Workers, leaders, and mothers : Bolivian women in a globalizing world / Melissa Crane Draper
  • And those who left : portraits of a Bolivian exodus / Lily Whitesell.

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