Earth politics : religion, decolonization, and Bolivia's indigenous intellectuals / Waskar Ari.

Earth Politics focuses on the lives of four indigenous activist-intellectuals in Bolivia, key leaders in the Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (AMP), a movement established to claim rights for indigenous education and reclaim indigenous lands from hacienda owners. The AMP leaders invented a discourse of...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Ari Chachaki, Waskar (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Narrating native histories.
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Table of Contents:
  • Building the Indian law and a decolonization project in Bolivia
  • Nation-state making and the genealogy of the AMP indigenous activists
  • The beginning of the decolonization project : Toribio Miranda's framing and dissemination of the Indian law
  • Against cholification : Gregorio Titiriku's urban experience and development of earth politics in times of segregation
  • Between internal colonialism and war : Melitón Gallardo in the southern Andean estates
  • Against whitening : Andrés Jacha'qullu's movement between worlds in the era of the Bolivian national revolution of 1952
  • The AMP's innovations and its legacy in Bolivia under Evo Morales.