1st Edition

Bolivia and the Making of the Global Indigenous Movement Anthropology, Development and Transnationalism

By Juanita Roca-Sánchez Copyright 2025
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

This book investigates how western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global indigenous movement. Using Bolivia as a case study, the author demonstrates through a historical research, how international ideas of what it means and does not mean to be indigenous have played out at the national level. Tracing these trends from... Read more

Introduction: Labelling ‘the other’: anthropology, development and indigeneity

PART I: The Genealogy

1 The paradigm shift between social Darwinism and integration policies for Indians in Bolivia during the 1930s and 1940s

2 The integrationist paradigm for Latin America during the Cold War period: Indigenismo, anthropology and international development

PART II: From the Integrationist to the Indigenisation of Identities Paradigm

3 ‘For the liberation of the Indians’: The foundations of the global and the Latin American Indigenous Movement (1968–1975)

4 Anthropologists, international organisations and the establishment of the Global Indigenous Movement Network 

PART III: The Indigenisation of Identities Paradigm in Bolivia 

5 The emergence of ethnic politics and the paradigm shift towards the indigenisation of identities in Bolivia during the Cold War period and the early 1990s 

6 The indigenisation of identities paradigm in Bolivia: Transnationalism, the Bolivian state, NGOs and international development

PART IV Ethnic Politics During the Twenty-First Century in Bolivia 

7 Contested indigeneities in Bolivia at the turn of the millennium 

8 The downfall of Evo Morales, the TIPNIS controversy, Post-Development and indigeneities 

Conclusion 

Biography

Juanita Roca-Sánchez is an independent scholar, researcher and consultant. She holds a PhD in Social Science (Anthropology and Development Studies) from CEDLA-University of Amsterdam-Netherlands. She was initially trained as a historian at Universidad de Chile in Santiago, and her master studies are in Anthropology and Development from the London School of Economics-UK and Public Management from the University of Potsdam-Germany.