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Book SynopsisIn the twentieth century, indigenous people in Latin America started to speak out, mobilize, and organize in unprecedented ways. This book asks: why are indigenous people mobilizing now and why only in specific places? This book answers these questions with insight into their advancement and reform of democracy.
Trade Review'… a rigorous theoretical framework to a study of democratic issues related to ethnic movements … the book … will inspire students in international relations, political science, indigenous studies and sociology of development.' Political Studies Review
'Deborah Yashar has processed and put together in a coherent framework an enormous amount of data provided by documents, interviews and secondary literature. … the book has made an outstanding contribution in clarifying not only the conditions of possibility and development, but also the deep meaning of indigenous struggles …' Nations and Nationalism
Table of ContentsPart I. Theoretical Framing: 1. Questions, approaches, and cases; 2. Citizenship regimes, the state, and ethnic cleavages; 3. The argument: indigenous mobilization in Latin America; Part II. The Cases: 4. Ecuador: Latin America's strongest indigenous movement; 5. The Ecuadorian Andes and ECUARUNARI; 6. The Ecuadorian Amazon and CONFENAIE; 7. Forming the National Confederation, CONAIE; 8. Bolivia: strong regional movements; 9. The Bolivian Andes: the Kataristas and their legacy; 10. The Bolivian Amazon; 11. Peru: weak national movements and subnational variation; 12. Peru. Ecuador, and Bolivia: most similar cases; 13. No national indigenous movement: explaining the Peruvian anomaly; 14. Explaining subnational variation; 15. Conclusion: 16. Democracy and the postliberal challenge in Latin America.
