Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country's natural gas reserves. In Bolivia in the Age of Gas, Bret Gustafson explores how the struggle over natural gas has reshaped Bolivia, along with the rise, and ultimate fall, of the country's first Indigenous-led government. Rethinking current events against the backdrop of a longer history of oil and gas politics and military intervention, Gustafson shows how natural gas wealth brought a measure of economic independence and redistribution, yet also reproduced political and economic relationships that contradicted popular and Indigenous aspirations for radical change. Though grounded in the unique complexities of Bolivia, the volume argues that fossil-fuel political economies worldwide are central to the reproduction of militarism and racial capitalism and suggests that progressive change demands moving beyond fossil-fuel dependence and the social and ecological ills that come with it.
- Cover
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Note on Labels & Language
- Preface & Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Gaseous State
- Part One. Time
- Chapter One. Heroes of the Chaco
- Chapter Two. Imperial Maneuvers
- Chapter Three. Las nalgas of YPFB
- Part Two. Space
- Chapter Four. Gas Lock-In
- Chapter Five. Bulls & Beauty Queens
- Chapter Six. Just a Few Lashes
- Part Three. Excess
- Chapter Seven. Requiem for the Dead
- Chapter Eight. Gas Work
- Chapter Nine. Quarrel over the Excess
- Postscript. Bolivia 2020
- Notes
- References
- Index
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