Thomas Grisaffi

Coca Yes, Cocaine No

How Bolivia's Coca Growers Reshaped Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party, showing how the realities of international politics hindered MAS leader Evo Morales from scaling up the party's form of grassroots democracy to the national level.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001713
• ISBN-10: 1478001712
• Artikelnr.: 52420960

Autorenporträt

Thomas Grisaffi is Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: To Lead by Obeying  1
1. The Rise of the Coca Unions  27
2. The Lowest Rung of the Cocaine Trade  58
3. Self-Governing in the Chapare  84
4. From Class to Ethnicity  109
5. Community Coca Control  128
6. The Unions and Local Government  150
7. The Coca Union's Radio Station  173
Conclusion  192
Notes  203
References  215
Index  249