04560nam 2200709 450 991079198170332120210311111955.01-350-22240-21-78032-132-51-78032-718-81-283-07097-997866130709751-84813-525-410.5040/9781350222403(CKB)2560000000073154(EBL)688555(OCoLC)721195079(SSID)ssj0000540912(PQKBManifestationID)12177619(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540912(PQKBWorkID)10491977(PQKB)10226312(MiAaPQ)EBC688555(Au-PeEL)EBL688555(CaPaEBR)ebr10464773(CaONFJC)MIL307097(OCoLC)1241539723(CaBNVSL)9781350222403(EXLCZ)99256000000007315420210311h20212010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe rise of Evo Morales and the MAS /Sven HartenLondon, England :Zed Books,2010.[London, England] :Bloomsbury Publishing,20211 online resource (274 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84813-524-6 1-84813-523-8 About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction | A Journey; Part I; 1 | Bolivia's political history; Crisis of representation in Bolivia; From revolution to dictatorship to transition: 1952-78; Bolivian nationalism: a brief history; The rise of democratic institutions without democratic politics; Coca: a cursed holy plant; 2 | Evo's youth and upbringing; Early life; Evo's university: looking for another form of democracy; The origins of Evo Morales's notion of the nation; 3 | The rise of the coca growers,mid-1980s to early 1990s; History of the coca growers' movement; Internal functioningCoca discourse: defending the sacred leafPart II; 4 | Morales's political instrument? The creation of MAS, early 1990s; Brief history of the instrumento político MAS; Poisoned relations; MAS: a bottom-up perspective of the party; Old wine in new bottles, or something genuinely new?; 5 | Outside challengers riseamidst waves of protests, 1995-2002; Second-generation reforms; Party politics: where is the 'silent revolution'?; Waves of conflict; Las wawas crecen con mucha bronca; War on drugs; For our water and for our lives; Guerra del Agua in 2000; table 1 Chronology of the Water War; El MallkuMASsive force?Guerra del Gas or Octubre Negro 2003; Conclusion; 6 | MAS assumes political dominance, 2002-05; Reaching out to other social movements; Institutionalizing party structures; Alvaro; How indigenous is MAS?; Leadership; Organizational problems; 7 | Compañero Evo, symbol of the pluricultural people; The people; Construction of identity; Conclusion; Part III; 8 | Bolivia's first indigenous president, 2005-10; Bolivia under President Morales; Imagining the 'plurinational nation'; 9 | Refounding the state: the foundational promise of populism; Building a new state: what had to change?Principles of a new stateThe path to change: Asamblea Constituyente; Bolivia's new constitution; Conclusion; Conclusion | The difficult road ahead for President Morales and the MAS; The dangerous path towards re-institutionalization; Notes; Preface; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; References; IndexIn this insightful and revealing book, Sven Harten explains the success of the MAS and its wider consequences, showing how Morales has become the symbol for a new political consciousness that has entailed de-stigmatizing indigenous identities. It reveals the challenge of squaring the rupture with a discredited past with the continuity of democracy and the aim of representing an entire society.PresidentsBoliviaBiographyPolitical leaders & leadershipbicsscBoliviaPolitics and government2006-BoliviaHistory21st centuryPresidentsPolitical leaders & leadership984.052092Harten Sven1497893VLYCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910791981703321The rise of Evo Morales and the MAS3723202UNINA