Chapter 9. David versus Goliath in Cochabamba: Water Rights, Neoliberalism, and the Revival of Social Protest in Bolivia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I (Urban) Social Movements in Latin America
7. Introduction 9
8. Chapter 1. Of Structured Moves and Moving Structures: An Overview of Theoretical Perspectives on Social Movements 11
9. Chapter 2. Urban Social Movements, Democratization, and Democracy in Brazil 43
10. Part II Agrarian Issues
11. Introduction 61
12. Chapter 3. The Agrarian Question in Peru: Some Observations on the Roads of Capital 64
13. Chapter 4. From Rubber Estate to Simple Commodity Production: Agrarian Struggles in the Northern Bolivian Amazon 99
14. Part III Indigenous (Land) Rights
15. Introduction 151
16. Chapter 5. Self-Determination and the “New Partnership”: The Politics of Indigenous Peoples and States 154
17. Chapter 6. Indian Justice in the Andes: Re-rooting or Re-routing? 186
18. Part IV Ethnicity and Citizenship
19. Introduction 209
20. Chapter 7. The Limits of State Reform and Multiculturalism in Latin America: Contemporary Illustrations 212
21. Chapter 8. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Indigenous Peoples and Autonomies in Latin America 230
22. Part V. Political Developments in Bolivia
23. Introduction 267
24. Chapter 9. David versus Goliath in Cochabamba: Water Rights, Neoliberalism, and the Revival of Social Protest in Bolivia 269
25. Chapter 10. Neoliberalism and the Reemergence of Ethnopolitics in Bolivia 292
26. Contributors 317
27. Bibliography Willem Assies 319
28. Index 331