UID:
almafu_9959677551702883
Format:
1 online resource (277 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-7695-4
Series Statement:
Narrating native histories
Content:
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 decolonization, rooted in part in native religion, and used it to counter structures of internal colonialism, including the existing racial systems. Waskar Ari calls their social movement, practices, and discourse ""Earth Politics,"" both because of the political meaning that the
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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 : Andrés 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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5617-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5613-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9780822376958
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822376958?locatt=mode:legacy
