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...
| Основен автор: | Fabricant, Nicole. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2012.
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| Серия: |
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=509035 |
| Резюме: |
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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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (276 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780807837511 0807837512 9781469601458 1469601451 |