Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced : Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land

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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...

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Main Author: Fabricant, Nicole
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Movimiento Sin Tierra (Bolivia)
Peasants > Political activity.
Land reform.
Indians of South America > Politics and government.
Indians of South America > Land tenure.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Paysannerie > Activite politique > Bolivie > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Reforme agraire > Bolivie > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Indians of South America > Bolivia > Politics and government.
Indians of South America > Land tenure > Bolivia > History > 21st century.
Peasants > Political activity > Bolivia > History > 21st century.
Land reform > Bolivia > History > 21st century.
Bolivia.
History.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (276 pages).
ISBN:9781469601458

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