Sian Lazar

El Alto, Rebel City

Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This ethnography of citizenship analyzes protests focused in the Bolivian city of El Alto, which forced the Bolivian president to resign in 2003, and the political implications of social practices of the indigenous, poor residents of this Andean city.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 162mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341291
• ISBN-10: 0822341298
• Artikelnr.: 23370405

Autorenporträt

Sian Lazar is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is a coauthor of Doing the Rights Thing: Rights-based Development and Latin American NGOs.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. El Alto the City 25
Part One
2. Constructing the Zone 61
3. Citizens Despite the State 91
4. Place, Movement, and Ritual 118
5. How the Gods Touch Humans (and Vice Versa) 144
Part Two
6. Competition, Individualism, and Collective Organization 178
7. "In-Betweenness" and Political Agency 206
8. The State and the Unions 233
Conclusion 258
Notes 267
Glossary 283
Bibliography 287
Index 311