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LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 141-160Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X18781347
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Resource extraction; Mining; Plurinationalism; Bolivia; Neoextractivism
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With the ratification of its new constitution in 2009, Bolivia was transformed into a plurinational state associated with ecologically oriented values, yet resource extraction has expanded ever since. Fieldwork conducted in communities in highland Bolivia shows how resource extraction sustains and is sustained by revolutionary narratives in which the state-led by President Evo Morales-is configured as the protagonist of the plurinational era. Examination of the challenges presented by Bolivia's indigenous communities and mining cooperatives to this revolutionary narrative during the 2014 adoption of new mining legislation suggests that shifting critical focus away from revolutionary change toward what David Scott calls the politics of the present might be a more fruitful way to think about the relationship between resource extraction and Bolivia's plurinationalism.
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