Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia’s Challenge to Globalization 9780520256989, 0520256980, 9780520256996, 0520256999

Table of 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.

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