num_pages: 352
description: Dignity and Defiance is a powerful eyewitness account of Bolivia's decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. Based on extensive interviews this story comes alive with first-person accounts of a massive Enron/Shell oil spill from an elderly woman whose livelihood it threatens of the young people who stood down a former dictator to take back control of their water and of Bolivia's dramatic and successful challenge to the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Featuring a substantial introduction a conclusion and introductions to each of the chapters this well-crafted mix of storytelling and analysis is a rich portrait of people calling for global integration to be different than it has been: more fair and more just.
language: English
title: Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization
publisher: University of California Press