Political Economies of Identity in Bolivia 1952-1998

• Autores: Kevin Healy, Susan Paulson
• Localización: Journal of Latin American Anthropology, ISSN 1085-7052, Vol. 5, Nº. 2, 2000, págs. 2-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 1985 Bolivia launched itself into the global age with a neoliberal economic program, while at the same time maintaining the cultural assimilationist stance inherited from preceding models of state capitalism. The second generation of neoliberal reforms, implemented between 1993 and 1997, introduced a dramatically new multicultural, pluriethnic and gendersensitive approach to identity politics. This introductory essay traces Bolivia's remarkable trajectory in light of key themes interpreted and debated by different contributors. All authors in the collection analyze theoretical, political and practical relations between gender, ethnicity and class. They explore processes through which identities are redefined and state-citizen relations are restructured in social movements, intellectual production, glorified revivals of local identity, state ministries, public health programs, and the voices and visions of men and women who refuse to fit into the identity categories to which they have been assigned