Linda Farthing
Biographic Data
| ID | 940569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Farthing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Farthing |
| SIGNATURE | FARTHING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From Alternative Development to Decolonisation: Transforming Drug Crop Policies in Bolivia
Bolivia’s ‘coca yes, cocaine no’ policy towards drug crops offers a useful lens to examine Evo Morales government’s decolonisation efforts, as unlike other government attempts, it had both local and international aspects. Using ethnographic data from the Chapare, one of Bolivia’s two principal coca growing regions, this article traces how the Morales government’s development policy between 2006-2019 broke with U.S.-led militarised eradication and…
Leadership matters
"Comment on "Film, Media, and 50 Years of Latin American Perspectives
On Their Own Terms: How Cocalera Organizing Expanded Indigenous Women's Rights in Bolivia
A key element in the historically unprecedented advances in indigenous women's political representation under Bolivia's Evo Morales's administration (2006-2019) was the influence that women coca growers played in the rural women's indigenous organization known as the Bartolinas. Driven in no small measure by their resistance to the US-financed War on Drugs in the Chapare region, the cocaleras became both Bolivia's strongest indigenous women's org…
Latin America's New Left Surge
En honor a Amaru Villanueva Rance (La Paz, 1985 - Londres, 2022)
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From criminals to citizens: The applicability of Bolivia’s community-based coca control policy to Peru
In Bolivia, the Right Returns with a Vengeance: The right-wing power grab in Bolivia has unleashed an authoritarian crackdown, racist violence, and a swift rollback of Evo Morales’s policies. What is …
For nearly 14 years, Bolivia’s chronic political instability was largely tamed thanks to repeated electoral victories by Evo Morales and his Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party. They won in 2005
An Opportunity Squandered? Elites, Social Movements, and the Government of Evo Morales
Over its 12 years in power, Bolivia's MAS government has made significant advances in expanding inclusion and reducing poverty. In the process, it has steadily been transformed into a hegemonic force that is increasingly dependent on expedient and pragmatically based compromises with economic elites. Concurrently, social movement influence and participation in the government have steadily declined. After 2009, when an uprising by Eastern elites h…
Open Veins Revisited: The New Extractivism in Latin America, Part 2
Everything is Up for Discussion: A Conversation with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Evo Morales: Hope and Disillusion
Open Veins Revisited: Charting the Social, Economic, and Political Contours of the New Extractivism in Latin America
Changing Dynamics in Bolivia
A New Agenda in U.S.-Latin American Relations
The U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Sonora, looking toward Nogales, Arizona. MIZUE AIZEKIAs the Winter 2016 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas went to press, U.S. voters were preparing t
To Be in Solidarity: A Nacla Roundtable on North-South Solidarity in the Americas, Past and Present
Radoslaw Powᶒska, Indigenous Movements and Building the Plurinational State in Bolivia (Warsaw, PL: (Cesla, University of Warsaw, 2013), pp. 333, pb
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To the Beat of a Different Drum: Bolivia’s Community Coca Control
Compassionate Cannabis
Navigating Narrative: The Antinomies of “Mediated” Testimonios
En torno a la literatura testimonial latinoamericana ha surgido un áspero debate sobre las cuestiones de legitimidad, representación, relaciones de poder y posturas solidarias. Nosotros, al escribir From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist's Life ( Desde las minas a las calles: la vida de un activista boliviano ), enfrentamos ese tipo de problemas, en la medida que nos tocó afrontar la necesidad de tomar en cuenta tanto las expectativas…
Mobilizing Memory: Bolivia's Enduring Social Movements
In Bolivia, the most indigenous of South American countries, powerful social movements have drawn on collective memory to build effective coalitions across significant differences in ethnic identity and awareness, class consciousness, generations and regions. We contend that this deployment of memory to strengthen protest identities is reinforced by pervasive indigenous cultural practices. Deeply rooted in oral storytelling, perceptions of time, …
Supply-side harm reduction strategies: Bolivia's experiment with social control
Material constraints to popular imaginaries: The extractive economy and resource nationalism in Bolivia
From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist’s Life
From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Félix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It traces Félix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, through the next sixty years of Bolivia's turbulent history. As a teenager, Félix followed his father into the tin mines before serving a compulsory year…
Social Control: Bolivia’s New Approach to Coca Reduction
When the indigenous coca grower Evo Morales was elected president in Bolivia in 2005, he promised to fundamentally change 25 years of the U.S.-funded and dictated "drug war." The new policy values the coca leaf and relies on local organizations to control coca production within limits set by the government. A review of its successes and limitations to date suggests that Bolivia's experience may offer lessons for drug control in other parts of the…
Material constraints to popular imaginaries: The extractive economy and resource nationalism in Bolivia
Mobilizing Memory: Bolivia's Enduring Social Movements
In Bolivia, the most indigenous of South American countries, powerful social movements have drawn on collective memory to build effective coalitions across significant differences in ethnic identity and awareness, class consciousness, generations and regions. We contend that this deployment of memory to strengthen protest identities is reinforced by pervasive indigenous cultural practices. Deeply rooted in oral storytelling, perceptions of time, …
Open Veins Revisited: Charting the Social, Economic, and Political Contours of the New Extractivism in Latin America
An Opportunity Squandered? Elites, Social Movements, and the Government of Evo Morales
Over its 12 years in power, Bolivia's MAS government has made significant advances in expanding inclusion and reducing poverty. In the process, it has steadily been transformed into a hegemonic force that is increasingly dependent on expedient and pragmatically based compromises with economic elites. Concurrently, social movement influence and participation in the government have steadily declined. After 2009, when an uprising by Eastern elites h…
Less Than Fully Satisfactory Development Outcomes: International Financial Institutions and Social Unrest in Bolivia
At five key moments, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund pressured weak administrations in Bolivia to adopt policies that had a negative impact on the country's political stability. The principle of "market democracy" had become so sacrosanct within the international financial institutions that they ignored the difficulties their policies created. Changes in policy since 2006, when Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales,…
Communitarian tourism hosts and mediators in Peru
From criminals to citizens: The applicability of Bolivia’s community-based coca control policy to Peru
Social Control: Bolivia’s New Approach to Coca Reduction
When the indigenous coca grower Evo Morales was elected president in Bolivia in 2005, he promised to fundamentally change 25 years of the U.S.-funded and dictated "drug war." The new policy values the coca leaf and relies on local organizations to control coca production within limits set by the government. A review of its successes and limitations to date suggests that Bolivia's experience may offer lessons for drug control in other parts of the…
Open Veins Revisited: The New Extractivism in Latin America, Part 2
On Their Own Terms: How Cocalera Organizing Expanded Indigenous Women's Rights in Bolivia
A key element in the historically unprecedented advances in indigenous women's political representation under Bolivia's Evo Morales's administration (2006-2019) was the influence that women coca growers played in the rural women's indigenous organization known as the Bartolinas. Driven in no small measure by their resistance to the US-financed War on Drugs in the Chapare region, the cocaleras became both Bolivia's strongest indigenous women's org…
Navigating Narrative: The Antinomies of “Mediated” Testimonios
En torno a la literatura testimonial latinoamericana ha surgido un áspero debate sobre las cuestiones de legitimidad, representación, relaciones de poder y posturas solidarias. Nosotros, al escribir From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist's Life ( Desde las minas a las calles: la vida de un activista boliviano ), enfrentamos ese tipo de problemas, en la medida que nos tocó afrontar la necesidad de tomar en cuenta tanto las expectativas…
Controlling State Power: An Interview with Vice President Álvaro García Linera
At the end of a two-hour interview I conducted with Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera in La Paz on June 20,2009,1 asked whether he had any thing he had written recently that he would like to see published in English in Latin American Perspectives. He pulled out his latest book, La potencia plebeya: Accidn colectiva e identidades indtgenas, obreras y populares en Bolivia, produced in collaboration with Pablo Stefanoni (Buenos Aires: CLA…
The Price Of Success Bolivia’s War Against Drugs and the Poor
Bolivia’s successful destruction of nearly three-quarters of its coca cultivation has come at the expense of the poorest and least powerful actors in a global commodity chain
Bolivia’S New Wave Of Protest
As opposed to the vertically integrated discipline of the old union movement, the new social protest is based in sectoral, geographically dispersed coalitions
The Beat Goes On: The U.S. War on Coca
(2004). The Beat Goes On: The U.S. War on Coca. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 34-41
Everything Is Up for Discussion: A 40th Anniversary Conversation With Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Communitarian tourism hosts and mediators in Peru
Bolivia’s Dilemma: Development Confronts the Legacy of Extraction
(2009). Bolivia’s Dilemma: Development Confronts the Legacy of Extraction. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 25-29
Less Than Fully Satisfactory Development Outcomes: International Financial Institutions and Social Unrest in Bolivia
At five key moments, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund pressured weak administrations in Bolivia to adopt policies that had a negative impact on the country's political stability. The principle of "market democracy" had become so sacrosanct within the international financial institutions that they ignored the difficulties their policies created. Changes in policy since 2006, when Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales,…
Social Control: Bolivia’s New Approach to Coca Reduction
When the indigenous coca grower Evo Morales was elected president in Bolivia in 2005, he promised to fundamentally change 25 years of the U.S.-funded and dictated "drug war." The new policy values the coca leaf and relies on local organizations to control coca production within limits set by the government. A review of its successes and limitations to date suggests that Bolivia's experience may offer lessons for drug control in other parts of the…
Controlling State Power: An Interview with Vice President Álvaro García Linera
At the end of a two-hour interview I conducted with Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera in La Paz on June 20,2009,1 asked whether he had any thing he had written recently that he would like to see published in English in Latin American Perspectives. He pulled out his latest book, La potencia plebeya: Accidn colectiva e identidades indtgenas, obreras y populares en Bolivia, produced in collaboration with Pablo Stefanoni (Buenos Aires: CLA…
From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist’s Life
From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Félix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It traces Félix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, through the next sixty years of Bolivia's turbulent history. As a teenager, Félix followed his father into the tin mines before serving a compulsory year…
Supply-side harm reduction strategies: Bolivia's experiment with social control
Material constraints to popular imaginaries: The extractive economy and resource nationalism in Bolivia
Navigating Narrative: The Antinomies of “Mediated” Testimonios
En torno a la literatura testimonial latinoamericana ha surgido un áspero debate sobre las cuestiones de legitimidad, representación, relaciones de poder y posturas solidarias. Nosotros, al escribir From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist's Life ( Desde las minas a las calles: la vida de un activista boliviano ), enfrentamos ese tipo de problemas, en la medida que nos tocó afrontar la necesidad de tomar en cuenta tanto las expectativas…
Mobilizing Memory: Bolivia's Enduring Social Movements
In Bolivia, the most indigenous of South American countries, powerful social movements have drawn on collective memory to build effective coalitions across significant differences in ethnic identity and awareness, class consciousness, generations and regions. We contend that this deployment of memory to strengthen protest identities is reinforced by pervasive indigenous cultural practices. Deeply rooted in oral storytelling, perceptions of time, …
To the Beat of a Different Drum: Bolivia’s Community Coca Control
Compassionate Cannabis
A New Agenda in U.S.-Latin American Relations
The U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Sonora, looking toward Nogales, Arizona. MIZUE AIZEKIAs the Winter 2016 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas went to press, U.S. voters were preparing t
To Be in Solidarity: A Nacla Roundtable on North-South Solidarity in the Americas, Past and Present
Radoslaw Powᶒska, Indigenous Movements and Building the Plurinational State in Bolivia (Warsaw, PL: (Cesla, University of Warsaw, 2013), pp. 333, pb
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Changing Dynamics in Bolivia
Everything is Up for Discussion: A Conversation with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Evo Morales: Hope and Disillusion
Open Veins Revisited: Charting the Social, Economic, and Political Contours of the New Extractivism in Latin America
An Opportunity Squandered? Elites, Social Movements, and the Government of Evo Morales
Over its 12 years in power, Bolivia's MAS government has made significant advances in expanding inclusion and reducing poverty. In the process, it has steadily been transformed into a hegemonic force that is increasingly dependent on expedient and pragmatically based compromises with economic elites. Concurrently, social movement influence and participation in the government have steadily declined. After 2009, when an uprising by Eastern elites h…
Open Veins Revisited: The New Extractivism in Latin America, Part 2
Political science (31 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Coca (5 works)