Bifurcated Bolivia
Indigenous Governance and Land Struggles in the Eastern Lowlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4501249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evan N Shenkin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 5-23 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x241288891 |
| OpenAlex | W4403576127 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
This paper analyzes Indigenous politics in Bolivia, the 2019 coup against President Evo Morales, and the return of the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement for Socialism, MAS) with the inauguration of Luis Arce in 2020. Drawing on interviews with Indigenous community members in the lowlands of the Bolivian Amazon, this piece theoretically situates Indigenous autonomy struggles within world systems theory and insights from Max Weber's 'iron cage' of institutional isomorphism to argue that political tensions in Bolivian Indigenous communities can be understood within a context of (1) increasingly strained relations between the MAS and civil society organizations; (2) Indigenous-NGO coalition efforts to protect Tierras Comunitarias de Orígen (Native Community Lands) and; (3) the development of competing parallel leadership organizations within Native communities that threaten democratic processes and cohesive responses to extractivism
Archaeology · Biology · Business · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Indigenous · Land reform · Land rights · Political science · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecology · Politics and Society in Latin America · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Territorializing Resource Conflicts in “Post-Neoliberal” Bolivia
Self-Governance in Bolivia’s First Indigenous Autonomy
New Futures of Ecological Struggle in Bolivia
Supply-side harm reduction strategies
Losing ground? Extractive-led development versus environmentalism in the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis), Bolivia
Variety of indigenous peoples’ opinions of large infrastructure projects
Formalizing Indigenous Commons
Agrarian Reform in Bolivia in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Extraction, Territory, and Inequalities
The ethno-environmental fix and its limits
The Tipnis Conflict in Bolivia
The Iron Cage Revisited
The Houses That Evo Built
Los pueblos indígenas en el derecho internacional
Less Than Fully Satisfactory Development Outcomes
Indigenous Peoples and the New Extraction
Morales's MAS Government
Consent, coercion and cooperativismo
Uncertain Worlds
From Enron to Evo
Indigenous Women's Movements in Latin America
Extraction, Protest and Indigeneity in Bolivia
Between resistance and negotiation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |