Dignity and Defiance Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization.

By:

Shultz, Jim [Author]

Contributor(s):

Draper, Melissa Crane

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520942660

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HF1511 .D546 2008

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Subject: 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 c.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Cochabamba Water Revolt and Its Aftermath; 2. A River Turns Black: Enron and Shell Spread Destruction across Bolivia's Highlands; 3. Oil and Gas: The Elusive Wealth beneath Their Feet; 4. Lessons in Blood and Fire: The Deadly Consequences of IMF Economics; 5. Economic Strings: The Politics of Foreign Debt; 6. Coca: The Leaf at the Center of the War on Drugs; 7. Workers, Leaders, and Mothers: Bolivian Women in a Globalizing World; 8. And Those Who Left: Portraits of a Bolivian Exodus; Conclusion: What Bolivia Teaches Us.

Jim Shultz ContributorsNotes; Index.

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 c.

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