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Bolivia in the Age of Gas

Autor Bret Gustafson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 2020
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country's 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 worldwide 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478010999
ISBN-10: 1478010991
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 29 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

List of Abbreviations ix
Note on Labels and Language xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Gaseous State 1
Part One. Time
1. Heroes of Chaco 27
2. Imperial Maneuvers 50
3. Las nalgas of YPFB 69
Part Two. Space
4. Gas Lock-In 97
5. Bulls and Beauty Queens 125
6. Just a Few Lashes 152
Part Three. Excess
7. Requiem for the Dead 179
8. Gas Work 202
9. Quarrel over the Excess 223
Postscript. Bolivia 2020 247
Notes 255
References 271
Index 293

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Descriere

Bret Gustafson examines the centrality of natural gas and oil to the making of modern Bolivia and the contradictory convergence of fossil-fueled capitalism, Indigenous politics, and revolutionary nationalism.