The Indigenous State

Abstract

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Driving development in the Amazon: Extending infrastructural citizenship with political ecology in Bolivia

“…The election of an indigenous President, for example, has been significant for how indigeneity has been articulated, claimed and mobilised across the country. For Postero (2017), in her analysis of an indigenous state, indigeneity has been transformed in Bolivia from site of emancipatory politics to site of liberal nation-state building. For Canessa (2014), indigeneity has been used by Morales in nation building, for example through the promotion of pan-indigenous celebrations and traditions.…”

Industrial Policy and Structural Change in Bolivia: Resource Curse or Historical Institutional Failure?

“…Wanderley (2013Wanderley ( , 2017 and Molero and Antolín (2012) examined the different social movements feeding the developmental discourse of the MAS government and its contradictions with the developmental public policies effectively implemented. Of particular interest is the work developed by Postero (2017) on the evolution of the indigenous discourse and its associated developmental model, which went from an initial emancipatory stage to a liberal one after 2012. Monasterios, Stefanoni and Do Alto (2007) analyse the relationship between the MAS organic structure, composed of a wide array of interest and lobby groups (unions, indigenous movements, working-class parties and others) and a rentier configuration of certain public policies created to satisfy their demands in terms of access to institutional positions, budgets and public structures.…”

Extractivisme(s)

“…Cette variante, présente notamment en Bolivie et en Équateur, cohabite aussimais non sans tensionavec de nouvelles approches critiques, comme la décolonisation, le buen vivir (vivre bien), les droits de la nature et la mise en place d'un État plurinational (très controversé). Cependant, malgré la présence d'un État d'apparence fort, celui-ci demeure libéral (Postero 2017) et vulnérable au capital transnational, en raison de son inscription dans le marché international dans une position subordonnée au capitalisme transnational (Gudynas 2009). Acosta (2013) souligne que ces impacts sont causés par le choc de processus aux temporalités diverses, certaines étant très longues, d'autres très courtes.…”