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Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced : Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land.
The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first Indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first Indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following in the tradition of the well-known Brazilian Landless movement, Bolivia's MST activists seized unproductive land and built farming collectives as a means of resistance to large-scale export-oriented agriculture. In Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced, Nicole Fabricant illustrates how landless peasa. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (276 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807837511 0807837512 9781469601458 1469601451 |