UID:
almafu_9959674069002883
Format:
1 online resource (328 p.)
ISBN:
9781478012528
Content:
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won re-election three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over its natural gas reserves. In Bolivia in the Age of Gas, Bret Gustafson explores how the struggle over natural gas has reshaped Bolivia, along with the rise, and ultimate fall, of the country's first Indigenous-led government. Rethinking current events against the backdrop of a longer history of oil and gas politics and military intervention, Gustafson shows how natural gas wealth brought a measure of economic independence and redistribution, yet also reproduced political and economic relationships that contradicted popular and Indigenous aspirations for radical change. Though grounded in the unique complexities of Bolivia, Gustafson argues that fossil fuel political economies world-wide are central to the reproduction of militarism and racial capitalism and suggests that progressive change demands moving beyond fossil-fuel dependence and the social and ecological ills that come with it.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Abbreviations --
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Note on Labels & Language --
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Preface & Acknowledgments --
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Introduction. Gaseous state --
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1. Heroes of the Chaco --
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2. Imperial Maneuvers --
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3. Las nalgas of ypfb --
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4 Gas Lock-In --
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5 Bulls & Beauty Queens --
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6 Just a Few Lashes --
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7 Requiem for the Dead --
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8 Gas Work --
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9 Quarrel over the Excess --
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Postscript. Bolivia 2020 --
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Notes --
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References --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
DOI:
10.1515/9781478012528
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012528
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012528
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012528
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012528
