Dignity and Defiance : Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization / / James Shultz, Melissa Draper

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 301
• Soggetto topico: Globalization - Economic aspects - Bolivia; Investments, Foreign - Bolivia
• Soggetto geografico: Bolivia Foreign economic relations
• Soggetto non controllato: bolivia; bolivian history; border crossing; capitalism; coca fields; economics; enron; eyewitness accounts; fighting back; first person accounts; former dictator; global integration; globalization; humane development; international influences; international monetary fund; neoliberalism; oil companies; oil spill; political massacres; politics; rebellion; shell; social justice; south america; south american history; world bank
• Persona (resp. second.): DraperMelissa; ShultzJames
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-336) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Cochabamba Water Revolt and Its Aftermath -- Chapter 2. A River Turns Black -- Chapter 3. Oil and Gas: The Elusive Wealth beneath Their Feet -- Chapter 4. Lessons in Blood and Fire -- Chapter 5. Economic Strings -- Chapter 6. Coca: The Leaf at the Center of the War on Drugs -- Chapter 7. Workers, Leaders, and Mothers -- Chapter 8. And Those Who Left -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dignity and Defiance
• ISBN: 1-282-36078-7; 9786612360787; 0-520-94266-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808691003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II