Prologue: The world turned upside down -- Introduction: Modernity, indigeneity, and revolution -- Part I. The nation, the living jungle, and the communal vision in Ecuador. The nation and the living jungle in the Amazon / interviews with Ampam Karakras, Rafael Antuni, and Marlon Santi -- Ecuarunari: Sumak Kawsay and the communal vision / interviews with Delfin Tenesaca, Humberto Cholango, and Luis Contento -- Pachakutik: indigenous Jeffersonians / interviews with Geronimo Yantalema, Salvador Quishpe, and Auki Tituana -- Part II. "Indian revolution: and the movement toward socialism (MAS) in Bolivia. Katarism- Indianism in the Andes / interviews with Felipe Quispe, Eugenio Rojas, Pablo Mamani, and Eugenia Choque -- The sacred leaf / interviews with Leonilda Zurita and Julio Salazar -- MAS Unionists: Che Guevara and Tupac Katari / interviews with Antonio Peredo, Cesar Navarro, and Raul Prada -- Indianism and Marxism / interviews with Antonio Peredo, Cesar Navarro, and Raul Prada -- Conclusion: Twenty-first-century revolution.
Summary:
"Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990-2005 proposes a new interpretation of the major indigenous risings in Latin America at the turn of the twenty-first century and a new cultural theory of revolution itself. Based on 45 interviews with indigenous leaders conducted by the author from 2008 to 2011, the manuscript contends that these risings represent an emerging form of indigenous revolution that combines predominantly peaceful massive resistance and electoral democracy with revolutionary indigeneity. The manuscript builds toward a conclusion demonstrating how this form of revolution has implications far beyond the Andes"-- Provided by publisher. Uprisings by indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Bolivia between 1990 and 2005 overthrew the five-hundred-year-old racial and class order inherited from the Spanish Empire. It started in Ecuador with the Great Indigenous Uprising, which was fought for cultural and economic rights. A few years later massive indigenous mobilizations began in Bolivia, culminating in 2005 with the election of Evo Morales, the first indigenous president. Jeffrey M. Paige, interviewed forty-five indigenous leaders who were actively involved in the uprisings. The leaders recount how peaceful protest and electoral democracy paved the path to power. Paige's interviews present the powerful personal experiences and emotional intensity of the revolutionary leadership. They share the stories of mass mobilization, elections, and indigenous socialism that created a new form of twenty-first-century revolution with far-reaching applications beyond the Andes.-- book cover
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