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The 'indigenous native peasant' trinity: imagining a plurinational community in Evo Morales's Bolivia.
- Source :
- Environment & Planning D: Society & Space; Jun2014, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p518-534, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Over the last two decades Latin America has been a laboratory for the implementation of new models of state and citizenship. In Bolivia the (neo)liberal multicultural paradigm dominant in the 1990s has recently been replaced by a plurinational paradigm, which implies a deepening of the decentralization process and the strengthening of rights for traditionally marginalized social sectors. This paper describes the process of construction of a plurinational 'imagined community' and, in particular, of one of its core narratives: the 'indigenous native peasant'. I argue that the negotiation of this collective identity and its inclusion as one of the core ideas in the new constitution is the result of a contingent strategy in response to a highly conflictive scenario, which has not been, however, able to trigger a change in the way people identify themselves. Yet in recent years, social movements' identities have been shaped by centrifugal forces. These forces should be understood as the result of a process of collective actors' adaptation to institutional and regulatory reforms and contribute to explaining the increase of new intrasocietal conflicts linked to the redefinition of citizenship and territorial boundaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- NEOLIBERALISM
CITIZENSHIP
GROUP identity
SOCIAL movements
NATIONALISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02637758
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning D: Society & Space
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 97000263
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1068/d13030p