Nicole Fabricant
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807837139
- eISBN:
- 9781469601458
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807837511_fabricant
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra ...
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The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following in the tradition of the well-known Brazilian Landless movement, Bolivia's MST activists seized unproductive land and built farming collectives as a means of resistance to large-scale export-oriented agriculture. This book illustrates how landless peasants politicized indigeneity to shape grassroots land politics, reform the state, and secure human and cultural rights for Native peoples. It takes readers into the personal spaces of home and work, on long bus rides, and into meetings and newly built MST settlements to show how, in response to displacement, Indigenous identity is becoming ever more dynamic and adaptive. In addition to advancing this rich definition of indigeneity, the author explores the ways in which Morales has found himself at odds with Indigenous activists and, in so doing, shows that Indigenous people have a far more complex relationship to Morales than is generally understood.Less
The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following in the tradition of the well-known Brazilian Landless movement, Bolivia's MST activists seized unproductive land and built farming collectives as a means of resistance to large-scale export-oriented agriculture. This book illustrates how landless peasants politicized indigeneity to shape grassroots land politics, reform the state, and secure human and cultural rights for Native peoples. It takes readers into the personal spaces of home and work, on long bus rides, and into meetings and newly built MST settlements to show how, in response to displacement, Indigenous identity is becoming ever more dynamic and adaptive. In addition to advancing this rich definition of indigeneity, the author explores the ways in which Morales has found himself at odds with Indigenous activists and, in so doing, shows that Indigenous people have a far more complex relationship to Morales than is generally understood.
Nicole Fabricant
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807837139
- eISBN:
- 9781469601458
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807837511_fabricant.6
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
The arrival of the Spaniards and silver mining disrupted the indigenous communities' way of life by displacing families and subjecting them to forced labor. As the silver mining industry grew, ...
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The arrival of the Spaniards and silver mining disrupted the indigenous communities' way of life by displacing families and subjecting them to forced labor. As the silver mining industry grew, indigenous peoples, who once lived off the land as independent agriculturalists, were quickly turned into wage laborers. This chapter narrates histories in motion: the destruction of indigenous lands and communities, and the movement of Bolivia's populations from the highlands to the lowlands. It also explores the politics of Movimiento Sin Tierra in contemporary social movement struggles over land and territory. The chapter presents tales of early colonial history, global interconnections, Andean forms of dislocation and resistance, and eastern forms of plantation labor and violence.Less
The arrival of the Spaniards and silver mining disrupted the indigenous communities' way of life by displacing families and subjecting them to forced labor. As the silver mining industry grew, indigenous peoples, who once lived off the land as independent agriculturalists, were quickly turned into wage laborers. This chapter narrates histories in motion: the destruction of indigenous lands and communities, and the movement of Bolivia's populations from the highlands to the lowlands. It also explores the politics of Movimiento Sin Tierra in contemporary social movement struggles over land and territory. The chapter presents tales of early colonial history, global interconnections, Andean forms of dislocation and resistance, and eastern forms of plantation labor and violence.
Nicole Fabricant
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807837139
- eISBN:
- 9781469601458
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807837511_fabricant.7
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter narrates the regional history of Ichilo and Obispo Santiesteban, two centrally important areas of rice and soy production, respectively, which have now become centers of Movimiento Sin ...
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This chapter narrates the regional history of Ichilo and Obispo Santiesteban, two centrally important areas of rice and soy production, respectively, which have now become centers of Movimiento Sin Tierra organizing in Santa Cruz. It charts resource extraction from the regional periphery to urban centers. This resource extractivism involves the transport of timber from the forests of Ichilo or soybeans from Obispo Santiesteban. The chapter illustrates how the illegal timber trade and export of soybeans create an uneven landscape between rural peripheries and urban areas. Borders were created between sites of extraction and consumption, forging territorial, racial, and gendered divides between producing rural peripheries and modern city centers. These borderlands are patrolled, reinforced, and maintained through subversion, intimidation, and violence.Less
This chapter narrates the regional history of Ichilo and Obispo Santiesteban, two centrally important areas of rice and soy production, respectively, which have now become centers of Movimiento Sin Tierra organizing in Santa Cruz. It charts resource extraction from the regional periphery to urban centers. This resource extractivism involves the transport of timber from the forests of Ichilo or soybeans from Obispo Santiesteban. The chapter illustrates how the illegal timber trade and export of soybeans create an uneven landscape between rural peripheries and urban areas. Borders were created between sites of extraction and consumption, forging territorial, racial, and gendered divides between producing rural peripheries and modern city centers. These borderlands are patrolled, reinforced, and maintained through subversion, intimidation, and violence.
