Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance

by Benjamin Kohl, Linda Farthing, Linda C. Farthing

Book Overview

Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented popular resistance to the consequences of neoliberal policies, resulting in the resignation and flight of its president in October 2003. This unusual book uncovers the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition - mirrored in country after country in Latin America - to this currently fashionable, internationally prescribed approach to economic development. It explores the problems faced by governments in reproducing global strategies at the national level, the tensions between markets and democracy, state restructuring, citizenship and property rights. It points to the problems inherent in retaining neoliberalism as the dominant paradigm in Latin America for the foreseeable future and the unlikely prospect of it putting down real roots of approval and legitimacy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842777580
• ISBN13: 9781842777589
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

perfect

well organized, easy to read, and informative, this was one of the best books on Bolivia I've read.

Terrific

This is an excellent, comprehensive account of the forces that led to the ascencion of Evo Morales. Morales himself is not the focus, instead the authors examine the history of liberalism (as a social order) and neoliberalism (as an economic order) in Bolivia. They aptly relate the effects of liberalism to the clamour for change.