Bolivia and the Making of the Global Indigenous Movement

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.

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 Paradigm to the Indigenisation of Identities 3. ‘For the liberation of the Indians’: the foundations of the Global and Latin American Indigenous Movement (1968-1975) 4. Anthropologists, international organisations and the establishment of the Global Indigenous Movement Network during the 1970s and 1980s 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 new millennium 8. The downfall of Evo Morales, the TIPNIS controversy, post-Development and indigeneities Conclusions List of Interviews and oral sources