Jeffery R Webber

Red October

Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the opening years of this century, a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle in Bolivia mounted the most radical challenge to neoliberalism in the Western hemisphere. This book provides a Marxist and indigenous-liberationist analysis of this revolutionary epoch and is historical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 165mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9789004201552
• ISBN-10: 9004201556
• Artikelnr.: 33679892

Autorenporträt

Jeffery R. Webber, Ph.D. (2009) in Political Science, University of Toronto, is Lecturer in the School of Politics and International relations at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Acronyms
1. Politics of Indigenous Resistance and Class-Struggle
2. Indigenous Insurgency, Working-Class Struggle, and Popular Cultures of
Resistance and Opposition, 1781-1964
3. Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Popular Struggle, 1964-85
4. Neoliberal Counterrevolution, 1985-2000
5. Left-Indigenous Insurrectionary Cycle, 2000-3
6. Red October: Gas-War, 2003
7. Carlos Mesa and a Divided Country: Left-Indigenous and Eastern Bourgeois
Blocs in the Second Gas-War of May and June, 2005
8. Combined Oppositional Consciousness
9. Conclusion: Bolivia, Venezuela, and the Latin-American Left
Appendix A. Formal Interviewees
Appendix B. Methodology
References
Index