Book Review, Changing Dynamics in Bolivia

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Changing Dynamics in Bolivia
by Linda Farthing

Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia, Past and Present

Crabtree John & Whitehead Laurence (eds.). Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia, Past and Present. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.

The Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952 to the Present

Siekmeier James F. The Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952 to the Present. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.

Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class

Shakow Miriam Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land

Fabricant Nicole Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia

Webber Jeffrey Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia. Chicago: Haymarket, 2011.

Bolivia’s recent trajectory toward greater inclusion of its indigenous majority has brought more scholarly attention to the Andean country than in any previous era. The five books reviewed here, published between 2008 and 2014, reflect this international interest in what Evo Morales’s government calls the “process of change.” Three of the books address political economy broadly speaking, and the other two are anthropological studies of two groups—the emerging middle class in the provincial town of Sacaba, outside Cochabamba, and the landless workers in the eastern lowlands in Santa Cruz. Taken together they consider Bolivia from the national political and economic scale to the specificity of daily life.






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