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

Fabricant, Nicole.

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

Fabricant, Nicole.

9780807837511

9781469601458

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

1 online resource (276 pages).

First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies

First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous 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 (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. In Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced, Nicole Fabricant illustrates how landless peasa.

Movimiento Sin Tierra (Bolivia)

Land reform -- Bolivia -- History -- 21st century.

Peasants -- Political activity -- Bolivia -- History -- 21st century.

Indians of South America -- Land tenure -- Bolivia -- History -- 21st century.

Indians of South America -- Bolivia -- Politics and government.

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