Dignity and defiance : stories from Bolivia's challenge to globalization / edited by Jim Shultz and Melissa Crane Draper.

Other author Shultz, Jim.
Other author Draper, Melissa.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Descriptionx, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Globalization--Economic aspects. --Bolivia.
Investments, Foreign--Bolivia.
Bolivia--Foreign economic relations.

Contents Introduction / Melissa Crane Draper and Jim Shultz -- The Cochabamba water revolt and its aftermath / Jim Shultz -- A river turns black : Enron and Shell spread destruction across Bolivia's highlands / Christina Haglund -- Oil and gas : the elusive wealth beneath their feet / Gretchen Gordon and Aaron Luoma -- Lessons in blood and fire : the deadly consequences of IMF economics / Jim Shultz -- Economic strings : the politics of foreign debt / Nick Buxton -- Coca : the leaf at the center of the war on drugs / Caroline S. Conzelman ... [et al.] -- Workers, leaders, and mothers : Bolivian women in a globalizing world / Melissa Crane Draper -- And those who left : portraits of a Bolivian exodus / Lily Whitesell.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-336) and index.
LCCN 2008029117
ISBN9780520256989 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520256980 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520256996 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0520256999 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HF 1511 .D54 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold