Plebeian power
Subtitle: collective action and indigenous, working-class and popular identities in Bolivia
By: by Alvaro Garcia Linera ; selection and introduction by Pablo Stefanoni ; translation by Shana Yael Shubs, Ruth Felder, Carlos Velasquez Carrillo, Mariana Ortega Brena, Becquer Medak, Bruno Bosteels ; technical review of the translation by Eugenia Cervio
Contributors: Stefanoni, Pablo; Shubs, Shana Yael, translator; Felder, Ruth, translator; Carillo, Carlos Velasquez, translator; Ortega Brena, Mariana, translator; Medak, Becquer, translator; Bosteels, Bruno, translator; Cervio, Eugenia, editor; García Linera, Álvaro
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781608464098
Subjects: Politics and government; Syndicalism; Labor unions; Government relations; Labor movement; Indians of South America
Work titles: Potencia plebeya
Description: In addition to his role as Evo Morales's vice-president, Álvaro García Linera is one of Bolivia's foremost intellectuals. With a theoretical trajectory beginning in efforts to combine Marxism and Indianism, then developed in reaction to the neoliberal turn of the 1980s and in contact with the mass social movements of recent years, García Linera's Plebeian Power can be read as both an evolving analysis of Bolivian reality through periods of great social change, and as an intellectual biography of the author himself. Informed by such thinkers as Marx, Bourdieu and René Zavaleta, García Linera reflects on the nature of the state, class and indigenous identity and their relevance to social struggles in Bolivia.
Notes: First published in 2014 by Brill Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. Previously published in 2007 as La potencia plebeya: Accion colectiva e identidades indigenas, obreras y populares en Bolivia by CLACSO, Bogota.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: Álvaro García Linera: reflections on two centuries of Bolivia / Pablo Stefanoni; title: The Communist manifesto and our present: four theses on its historical actuality; title: Citizenship and democracy in Bolivia (1900-98); title: Historical cycles in the formation of the condition of the mining working-class in Bolivia (1825-1999); title: The death of the twentieth-century working-class condition; title: The colonial narrative and communal narrative; title: Indigenous autonomies and the multinational state; title: Union, multitude and community: social movements and forms of political autonomy in Bolivia; title: The crisis of the state and indigenous-plebeian uprisings in Bolivia; title: The struggle for power in Bolivia; title: Indianism and Marxism: the disparity between two revolutionary rationales; title: Bibliography of Álvaro García Linera.