Bolivia in the Age of Gas

Bolivia in the Age of Gas

by Bret Gustafson
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 10/08/2020

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Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country's natural gas reserves. In Bolivia in the Age of Gas, Bret Gustafson explores how the struggle over natural gas has reshaped Bolivia, along with the rise, and ultimate fall, of the country's first Indigenous-led government. Rethinking current events against the backdrop of a longer history of oil and gas politics and military intervention, Gustafson shows how natural gas wealth brought a measure of economic independence and redistribution, yet also reproduced political and economic relationships that contradicted popular and Indigenous aspirations for radical change. Though grounded in the unique complexities of Bolivia, the volume argues that fossil-fuel political economies worldwide are central to the reproduction of militarism and racial capitalism and suggests that progressive change demands moving beyond fossil-fuel dependence and the social and ecological ills that come with it.

ISBN:
9781478012528
9781478012528
Category:
History of the Americas
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
10-08-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Duke University Press

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