New languages of the state
Subtitle: indigenous resurgence and the politics of knowledge in Bolivia
By: Bret Gustafson.
Series: Narrating native histories; Narrating native histories
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780822345299; 9780822345466
Subjects: Education, Bilingual -- Bolivia; Indigenous peoples -- Education -- Bolivia; Guarani Indians -- Education -- Bolivia; Education -- Social aspects -- Bolivia; Ethnology -- Bolivia; Indigenous peoples -- Bolivia -- Social conditions
Description: "During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia's indigenous regions. Bret Gustafson spent fourteen years studying and working in south-eastern Bolivia with the Guarani, who were at the vanguard of the movement for bilingual education. Drawing on his collaborative work with indigenous organizations and bilingual-education activists as well as more traditional ethnographic research, Gustafson traces two decades of indigenous resurgence and education politics in Bolivia, from the 1980s and through the election of Evo Morales in 2005. Gustafson shows that bilingual education is about more than what goes on in classrooms. Public schools are at the centre of a broader battle over territory, power, and knowledge as indigenous movements across Latin America actively defend their languages and knowledge systems."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethnographic articulations in an age of Pachakuti; title: Soldiers, priests, and schools : state building in the Andes and the Guarani frontier; title: Interlude : to Camiri; title: Guarani scribes : bilingual education as indigenous resurgence; title: Interlude : to Itavera; title: Guarani Katui : schooling, knowledge, and movement in Itavera; title: Interlude : to la Paz, via Thailand; title: Network articulations : EIB from project to policy; title: Interlude : Bolivia or Yugoslavia?; title: Prodding nerves : intercultural disruption and managerial control; title: Interlude : la Indiada, como para dar miedo; title: Insurgent citizenship : interculturalism beyond the school; title: Interlude : interculturalism to decolonization; title: Shifting states.