Jeffery R Webber

Red October

Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia

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Produktbeschreibung

Using extensive field data from hundreds of interviews, Webber surveys the origins of Bolivia's revolutionary wave of 2000 to 2005.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781608462582
• ISBN-10: 1608462587
• Artikelnr.: 35366651

Autorenporträt

Jeffery R. Webber is a professor of political science at the Queen Mary, University of London. He has spent the last several years splitting time between Canada, Europe, and various countries in Latin America, where he conducts field research. He is also on the editorial board of the journals Historical Materialism, Latin American Perspectives, and New Socialist. He is author of From Rebellion to Reform in Bolvia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales.

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