Bolivia in the Age of Gas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781478009931)

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.

Author: Bret Gustafson
ISBN-10: 1478009934
ISBN-13: 9781478009931
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2020
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2021