Latin America and Extractive Industries.
I am a political economic anthropologist whose research and teaching have focused on the long history of uneven geographical development, resource extraction, and social movements in Latin America. My research interests in Bolivia focus on the cultural politics of the Landless Peasant Movement (MST-Bolivia) a 50,000-member social movement comprised of displaced peasants, informal laborers, and intellectuals fighting for land redistribution and the revitalization of small-scale farming. I have written about the creative ways in which displaced peoples use and mobilize cultural forms to push for political and economic reforms. Critical reflections on the new politics of resources, territory and identity in Bolivia appear in Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Rights and Territory in a Plurinational State, a co-edited volume with Bret Gustafson from Washington University (SAR Press, 2011).
related research
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2013 | Good Living for Whom? Bolivia’s Climate Justice Movement and the Limitations of Indigenous Cosmovisions, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal, 8(2): 159-178. Read.
2010 | Between the Romance of Collectivism and the Reality of Individualism: Ayllu Rhetoric in the Landless Peasant Movement (MST-Bolivia), Latin American Perspectives 37(4): 88-107. Read.
2009 | Performative Politics: The Camba countermovement in eastern Bolivia.. American Ethnologist 36(4): 768-783.Read.
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2012 | Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land, by Nicole Fabricant. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. Read.
2011 | Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Rights and Territory in a Plurinational State, a co-edited volume with Bret Gustafson from Washington University (SAR Press). Read. -
2020 | with Bret Gustafson. The Fall of Evo Morales. Catalyst Journal. Read.
2019 | The Roots of the Right Wing Coop in Bolivia. Dissent Magazine. Read.
2017 | with Bret Gustafson. Socialism from Below? Bolivia in an Age of Extractivism. New Politics. Read.
2017 | Fossil Fuels and Toxic Landscapes. NACLA Report on the Americas. Read.
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