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Titolo: | 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 genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910456834503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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