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

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Author / Creator:	Fabricant, Nicole.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (276 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies.
Subject:	Movimiento Sin Tierra (Bolivia) 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. Indians of South America -- Land tenure. Indians of South America -- Politics and government. Land reform. Peasants -- Political activity. Bolivia. Electronic books. Electronic books -- History. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168633

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ISBN:	9780807837511 0807837512 9781469601458 1469601451 9780807837139 080783713X 9780807872499 0807872490
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 9780807837139

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