TY  - BOOK
AU  - Postero, Nancy
AB  - In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new “democratic cultural revolution,” Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. In this perceptive new book, Nancy Postero examines the successes and failures that have followed in the ten years since Morales’s election. While the Morales government has made many changes that have benefited Bolivia’s majority indigenous population, it has also consolidated power and reinforced extractivist development models. In the process, indigeneity has been transformed from a site of emancipatory politics to a site of liberal nationstate building. By carefully tracing the political origins and practices of decolonization among activists, government administrators, and ordinary citizens, Postero makes an important contribution to our understanding of the meaning and impact of Bolivia’s indigenous state.
DO  - 10.1525/luminos.31
ID  - OAPEN ID: 631932
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 970396759
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31309
KW  - race
KW  - politics
KW  - decolonization
KW  - indigenous
KW  - evo morales
KW  - disagreement
KW  - extractivism
KW  - liberalism
KW  - bolivia
KW  - performance
KW  - Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory
KW  - Neoliberalism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31309/1/631932.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31309/1/631932.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31309/1/631932.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33763
PB  - University of California Press
PP  - Oakland, California
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9780520967304;9780520967304;9780520967304
TI  - The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivianull
ER  - 
