Propuestas autonómicas y crisis de gobernabilidad en Bolivia en un contexto de globalización y etnicidad (Autonomic proposals and crisis of governability in Bolivia in a globalización context and etnicidad)

Las actuales demandas de autonomía por parte de los departamentos ubicados en la “media luna” del Oriente boliviano dirigidos por los sectores empresariales2 y las propuestas que por su parte y desde el polo opuesto hacen los movimientos indígenas campesinos requieren situar este proceso de reconfiguración territorial en un contexto de crisis estatal. No solo se trata de un sistema de gobernabilidad el afectado sino que es la forma estado nación como tal que entra en cuestión como resultado de las propuestas indígenas de establecer una forma plurinacional de organización política territorial a través de la Asamblea Constituyente ahora en curso3. Este es un proceso cuyas raíces y ramificaciones van más allá de las fronteras del país

Propuestas autonómicas y crisis de gobernabilidad en Bolivia en un contexto de globalización y etnicidad.

Las actuales demandas de autonomía por parte de los departamentos ubicados en la “media luna” del Oriente boliviano dirigidos por los sectores empresariales y las propuestas que por su parte y desde el polo opuesto hacen los movimientos indígenas campesinos requieren situar este proceso de reconfiguración territorial en un contexto de crisis estatal. No solo se trata de un sistema de gobernabilidad el afectado sino que es la forma estado nación como tal que entra en cuestión como resultado de las propuestas indígenas de establecer unaforma plurinacional de organización política territorial a través de la Asamblea Constituyente ahora en curso. Este es un proceso cuyas raíces y ramificaciones van más allá de las fronteras del país

Indigenous territoriality and decentralisation in Bolivia (1994-2003) : autonomies, municipalities, social differentiation and access to resources

This thesis explores decentralisation in the context of the emergence of indigenous peasant movements in Bolivia. It examines the Bolivian state territorial reconfiguration through decentralisation, with a focus on the impact the process of municipalisation had on indigenous territoriality and social differentiation within Andean communities. It is argued in this thesis that the scope of the Popular Participation Law proves to be more complex in practice than the aims stated by the promoters of the law and by the associated literature. The thesis shows how the municipalisation in fact comes to play a concomitant role in the neoliberal strategy of land property structure modernisation. It also explores how the incorporation of rural Andean indigenous communities into 'national life' as an element of the neoliberal strategies framed on widening the reach of the market come to affect Andean strategies of space management.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

'The school, whose place is this'? The deep structures of the hidden curriculum in indigenous education in Bolivia

In this paper we examine state and indigenous education in Bolivia. Focusing on debates about the hidden curriculum, we conceptualize the school as a political space where tensions between the overlapping jurisdictional powers of the hispanicizing state and indigenous authorities are played out. Our analysis of these tensions highlights the contested way in which indigenous educational policy is negotiated in Bolivia and points to the importance of the deep structures of the hidden curriculum in constructing the school as a territorial authority and a site of struggle in indigenous communities. Using the communities of Raqaypampa, Cochabamba as a case study, we show how local struggles over indigenous education in the 1980s and 1990s became scaled up to influence national educational policy and donor intervention strategies in Bolivia.</p

Rights of Pachamama: The emergence of an earth jurisprudence in the Americas

Earth jurisprudence represents an alternative approach to the law based on the belief that nature has rights. In this view, a river has the right to flow, species have the right to continue to exist in the wild, and ecosystems have the right to adapt and evolve over time. Proponents of Earth jurisprudence argue that, by treating nature as exploitable resources, contemporary legal systems actively promote environmental harms. Recognising rights of nature, they argue, will transform core values and inspire social changes that promote economic development which respects nature’s limits. Since 2006, rights of nature have been recognised by some sub-federal public bodies in the United States and by the governments of Ecuador and Bolivia. This paper sets out to answer two questions. First, what explains the legal recognition of rights of nature in Ecuador and Bolivia? Second, what factors impede a wider adoption and implementation of Earth jurisprudence? Amongst the constraints, it will be argued, is that Ecuador and Bolivia continue to pursue an extractivist economic development model, with assertions of national sovereignty over natural resources tending to prevail over Earth jurisprudence and environmental conservation