Elements
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Elements

Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia

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Elements

Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia

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In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been central to Bolivian politics and to the country's economy. Marston outlines how mining cooperatives occupy a contradictory place in Bolivian politics. They were major backers of left-wing president Evo Morales in 2006 and participated significantly in the crafting of the constitution that would declare Bolivia a plurinational state. At the same time, many Bolivians regard mining cooperatives as thieves because they derive personal profits from the subterranean mineral resources that are the legal inheritance of all Bolivians. Through extensive fieldwork underground in Bolivian cooperative mines, Marston explores how these miners—and the subterranean spaces they occupy—embody the tensions at the heart of Bolivia's plurinational project. Marston shows how persistent commitment to nation and nationalism is a shared feature of left-wing and right-wing politics in Bolivia, illustrating how bodies, identities, and resources fit into this complex political matrix.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2024
ISBN
9781478027768
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Labour & Industrial Relations
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Abbreviations
  4. Preface | Thieves of Patria
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Fault Lines: Mining Cooperatives in Plurinational Bolivia
  7. 1. Subterranean Property: Geology, Theology, and the Law
  8. 2. Material Fix: Making Mining Cooperatives
  9. 3. Tangled Veins: of Tubers and Tin
  10. 4. Flesh and Ore: Graded and Degraded Matters
  11. 5. Industrial Ruins: Matters of Time
  12. 6. Geology of Patria: Patrimony, Patronage, Violence
  13. Afterword: Historical Matters and New Eruptions
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index