In the indigenous Andean language of Aymara, pachakuti refers to the subversion and transformation of social relations. Between 2000 and 2005, Bolivia was radically transformed by a series of popular indigenous uprisings against the country's neoliberal and antidemocratic policies. In Rhythms of the Pachakuti, Raquel Gutierrez Aguilar documents these mass collective actions, tracing the internal dynamics of such disruptions to consider how motivation and execution incite political change. In Rhythms of the Pachakuti we can sense the reverberations of an extraordinary historical process that took place in Bolivia at the start of the twenty-first century. The book is the product of Raquel Gutierrez Aguilar's political engagement in that historical process. . . . Though of Mexican nationality, [she] was intimately involved in Bolivian politics for many years and acquired a quasi-legendary status there as an intense, brilliant activist and radical intellectual. . . . [Her account is] . . . itself a revolutionary document. . . . Rhythms of the Pachakuti deserves to stand as a key text in the international literature of radicalism and emancipatory politics in the new century. -Sinclair Thomson, from the foreword
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-13
9780822355991
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208846658
Product Key Features
Author
Raquel Gutierrez Aguilar
Publication Name
Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Anthropology, History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
585g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Raquel Gutierrez Aguilar
Series Title
New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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