Gustafson Bret Gustafson

Bolivia in the Age of Gas (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 327
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478012528
• Artikelnr.: 66282438

Autorenporträt

Bret Gustafson

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations  ix
Note on Labels and Language  xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction. Gaseous State  1
Part One. Time
1. Heroes of Chaco  27
2. Imperial Maneuvers  50
3. Las nalgas of YPFB  69
Part Two. Space
4. Gas Lock-In  97
5. Bulls and Beauty Queens  125
6. Just a Few Lashes  152
Part Three. Excess
7. Requiem for the Dead  179
8. Gas Work  202
9. Quarrel over the Excess  223
Postscript. Bolivia 2020  247
Notes  255
References  271
Index  293