Liberty Time in Question: Historical Duration and Indigenous Refusal in Post-Revolutionary Bolivia
| Autor: | Mareike Winchell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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History
Government 060101 anthropology Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 06 humanities and the arts Colonialism Indigenous 060104 history Politics State (polity) Sovereignty Socialism Political science Political economy 0601 history and archaeology Land tenure media_common |
| Zdroj: | Comparative Studies in Society and History. 62:551-587 |
| ISSN: | 1475-2999 0010-4175 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0010417520000171 |
| Popis: | This article examines revolutionary discourses of national historical transformation in Bolivia and tracks the ways those discourses are appropriated, contested, and recast by farmers in the rural agricultural province of Ayopaya. During fieldwork carried out with Quechua-speaking farmers in Ayopaya between 2011 and 2012, I learned about people's enduring concerns with a recent hacienda past. Against governmental declarations that Bolivia's colonial past was dead or had passed, farmers meditated on the duration of earlier histories of colonial land dispossession and violations of indigenous sovereignty. Talk about the region's oppressive history here allowed people to assess deficient state aid and resources but also to oppose unwelcome state interventions pushing a legal model of bounded collectivity. I trace the ways that farmers and villagers mobilized the hacienda past to address inequitable land tenure, violated sovereignty, and women's marginalization from political life, and thereby raise new questions about the critical possibilities opened up by the re-politicization of this colonial history. Rural support for Bolivia's Movement Toward Socialism party government eroded nearly a decade ago, and this complicates both triumphalist and defeatist accounts of President Evo Morales’ 2019 resignation, which tend to paint Morales’ rural indigenous supporters as innocent and naïve. |
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