Earth Politics : Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia's Indigenous Intellectuals /

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Earth Politics focuses on the lives of four indigenous activist-intellectuals in Bolivia, key leaders in the Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (AMP), a movement established to claim rights for indigenous education and reclaim indigenous lands from hacienda owners. The AMP leaders invented a discourse of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ari Chachaki, Waskar (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (Bolivia)
Race relations.
Nationalism.
Indians of South America > Politics and government.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Nationalisme > Bolivie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Nationalism > Bolivia > History > 20th century.
Indians of South America > Bolivia > Politics and government.
Bolivia.
Bolivia > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Building the Indian law and a decolonization project in Bolivia
  • Nation-state making and the genealogy of the AMP indigenous activists
  • The beginning of the decolonization project : Toribio Miranda's framing and dissemination of the Indian law
  • Against cholification : Gregorio Titiriku's urban experience and development of earth politics in times of segregation
  • Between internal colonialism and war : Melitón Gallardo in the southern Andean estates
  • Against whitening : Andres Jacha'qullu's movement between worlds in the era of the Bolivian national revolution of 1952
  • The AMP's innovations and its legacy in Bolivia under Evo Morales.

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