Rhythms of the Pachakuti : indigenous uprising and state power in Bolivia
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Rhythms of the Pachakuti : indigenous uprising and state power in Bolivia
（New ecologies for the twenty-first century）（Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução）
Duke University Press, 2014
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Los ritmos de Pachakuti : movilización y levantamiento indígena-popular en Bolivia
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Translation of: Los ritmos de Pachakuti : movilización y levantamiento indígena-popular en Bolivia (Buenos Aires : Tinta Limón, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274) and index
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Description
In the indigenous Andean language of Aymara, pachakuti refers to the subversion and transformation of social relations. Between 2000 and 2005, Bolivia was radically transformed by a series of popular indigenous uprisings against the country's neoliberal and antidemocratic policies. In Rhythms of the Pachakuti, Raquel Gutierrez Aguilar documents these mass collective actions, tracing the internal dynamics of such disruptions to consider how motivation and execution incite political change.
"In Rhythms of the Pachakuti we can sense the reverberations of an extraordinary historical process that took place in Bolivia at the start of the twenty-first century. The book is the product of Raquel Gutierrez Aguilar's political engagement in that historical process. . . . Though of Mexican nationality, [she] was intimately involved in Bolivian politics for many years and acquired a quasi-legendary status there as an intense, brilliant activist and radical intellectual. . . . [Her account is] . . . itself a revolutionary document. . . . Rhythms of the Pachakuti deserves to stand as a key text in the international literature of radicalism and emancipatory politics in the new century."-Sinclair Thomson, from the foreword
Table of Contents
Foreword: Beyond the Old Order of Things ix Preface xix Acknowledgments xlvii Part I. Community Uprisings and Grassroots Democratization 1 1. The Coalition for the Defense of Water and Life: The Massive Public Defiance of State Order 3 2. Aymara Roadblocks in La Paz: Community as a Mobilizing Force 28 3. The Disputed Territories of the Chapare: The Coca Growers' Struggles from 2000 to 2003 73 Part II. From Governmental Collapse to Pachakuti's Suspension, 2003-2005 97 4. Insurgent Politics: The Rebellious Year of 2003 99 5. Compromises and "Catastrophic Balance": The Confusing Year of 2004 129 6. The Growing Tension between Emancipation, Autonomy, Self-Governance, and State Reconstitution in 2005 152 Conclusion: Final Reflections 175 Appendix 1: Methodological Approach 191 Appendix 2: Positions of the Social Voices and Tables 195 Notes 223 References 265 Index 275
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