The Production of Local Knowledge: History and Politics in the Work of René Zavaleta Mercado

ISBN-13: 9780857423344 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 456 str.

Luis Tapia

Opis

This book is the first comprehensive examination of the work of Bolivian political thinker Rene Zavaleta (1939--84), whose ideas were a key influence on many of the indigenous activists and ideologues who have transformed Bolivian politics and economics in recent years. Luis Tapia, a political analyst who has worked closely with many of the central figures in today's Bolivian government, presents a detailed panorama of Bolivian history that sets Zavaleta's analyses in context and helps readers and activists alike understand the history and ideological currents that underpinned the rise of the neo-indigenous movement in the twenty-first century.

"Tapia is the greatest scholar of the work of his countryman."--Jaime Ortega Reyna, SciELO Mexico