Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance

Benjamin Kohl, Linda C. Farthing

Zed Books, 2006 - Business & Economics - 236 pages

Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented popular resistance to the consequences of neoliberal policies, resulting in the resignation and flight of its president in October 2003. This unusual book uncovers the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition - mirrored in country after country in Latin America - to this currently fashionable, internationally prescribed approach to economic development. It explores the problems faced by governments in reproducing global strategies at the national level, the tensions between markets and democracy, state restructuring, citizenship and property rights. It points to the problems inherent in retaining neoliberalism as the dominant paradigm in Latin America for the foreseeable future and the unlikely prospect of it putting down real roots of approval and legitimacy.

Contents

• V: 11
• VI: 15
• VII: 18
• VIII: 22
• IX: 25
• X: 28
• XI: 30
• XII: 34
• XIII: 37
• XIV: 40
• XV: 43
• XVI: 45
• XVII: 50
• XVIII: 54
• XIX: 57
• XX: 60
• XXI: 62
• XXII: 65
• XXIII: 70
• XXIV: 73
• XXV: 75
• XXVI: 77
• XXVII: 79
• XXVIII: 80
• XXIX: 84
• XXX: 88
• XXXI: 90
• XXXII: 92
• XXXIII: 93
• XXXIV: 95
• XXXV: 97
• XXXVI: 99
• XXXVII: 100
• XXXVIII: 103
• XXXIX: 105
• XL: 107
• XLI: 109
• XLII: 111
• XLIII: 116
• XLIV: 120
• XLV: 121
• XLVI: 122
• XLVII: 125
• XLVIII: 127
• XLIX: 130
• L: 132
• LI: 137
• LII: 145
• LIII: 149
• LIV: 150
• LV: 153
• LVI: 162
• LVII: 167
• LVIII: 169
• LIX: 170
• LX: 172
• LXI: 173
• LXII: 175
• LXIII: 179
• LXIV: 180
• LXV: 186
• LXVI: 187
• LXVII: 190
• LXVIII: 192
• LXIX: 197
• LXX: 199
• LXXI: 228

About the author

Benjamin Kohl is a member of the Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University.Linda Farthing, a journalist, educator and activist, has worked on Bolivia for 20 years, including living there for eight. She is a former regional director for the Americas at the School for International Training, and has extensive experience in grassroots community development in both Bolivia and Nepal.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance
• Authors: Benjamin Kohl, Linda C. Farthing
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Zed Books, 2006
• ISBN: 1842777599, 9781842777596
• Length: 236 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions; Political Science / International Relations / General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General; Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American; Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries