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Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export of natural resources and the privatization of public water systems. In October 2003, protests centered in El Alto forced the Bolivian president to resign; in December 2005, the country's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, was elected. The growth of a strong social justice movement in Bolivia has caught the imagination of scholars and political activists worldwide. El Alto remains crucial to this ongoing process. In El Alto, Rebel City Lazar examines the values, practices, and conflicts behind the astonishing political power exercised by El Alto citizens in the twenty-first century.Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 1997 and 2004, Lazar contends that in El Alto, citizenship is a set of practices defined by one's participation in a range of associations, many of them collectivist in nature. Her argument challenges Western liberal notions of the citizen by suggesting that citizenship is not only individual and national but in many ways communitarian and distinctly local, constituted through different kinds of affiliations. Since in El Alto these affiliations most often emerge through people's place of residence and their occupational ties, Lazar offers in-depth analyses of neighborhood associations and trade unions. In so doing, she describes how the city's various collectivities mediate between the state and the individual. Collective organization in El Alto and the concept of citizenship underlying it are worthy of attention; they are the basis of the city's formidable power to mobilize popular protest.

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Duke University Press

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04 janvier 2008

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EAN13

9780822388760

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English

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A book in the series

LatinAmericaOtherwise:Languages,Empires,Nations

series editors:

Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University

Irene Silverblatt, Duke University

Sonia Saldívar-Hull, University of Texas, San Antonio

about the series

E L A LT O, R E B E L C I T Y

LatinAmericaOtherwise:Languages,Empires,Nationsisacriticalseries.Itaimstoexploretheemergence andconsequencesofconceptsusedtodeﬁne‘‘LatinAmerica’’whileatthesametimeexploringthebroad interplayofpolitical,economic,andculturalpracticesthathaveshapedLatinAmericanworlds.Latin America,atthecrossroadsofcompetingimperialdesignsandlocalresponses,hasbeenconstruedasageo-culturalandgeopoliticalentitysincethenineteenthcentury.Thisseriesprovidesastartingpointtoredeﬁne LatinAmericaasaconﬁgurationofpolitical,linguistic,cultural,andeconomicintersectionsthatdemands acontinuousreappraisaloftheroleoftheAmericasinhistory,andoftheongoingprocessofglobalization andtherelocationofpeopleandculturesthathavecharacterizedLatinAmerica’sexperience.LatinAmerica Otherwise:Languages,Empires,Nationsisaforumthatconfrontsestablishedgeoculturalconstructions, rethinksareastudiesanddisciplinaryboundaries,assessesconvictionsoftheacademyandofpublicpolicy, andcorrespondinglydemandsthatthepracticesthroughwhichweproduceknowledgeandunderstanding aboutandfromLatinAmericabesubjecttorigorousandcriticalscrutiny.

E L A LT O, R E B E L C I T Y

S I A N L A Z A R

S E L F A N D C I T I Z E N S H I P I N A N D E A N B O L I V I A

duke university press(≤≠≠∫durham and london

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forSteveLazar,1947–2007

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∞.Huayna Potosí, from the outskirts of Rosas Pampa 30 ≤.35Weekly market in Santiago II, the zone adjacent to Rosas Pampa ≥.General purpose shop in Rosas Pampa 43 ∂.54Civic organizations and the state in El Alto ∑.75Paving the central avenue in Rosas Pampa, Avenida 4, in 2000 ∏.The community center, built by the junta vecinal, in 2000 87 π.The community center in 2003, with additional ﬂoor and extension 87 ∫.Banner welcoming Jose Luis Paredes to the school during the election campaign of 1999 100 Ω.The Morenada in Quilloma, 2003 128 ∞≠.135Men dancing the Morenada, ﬁesta of Gran Poder, 2003 ∞∞.138Women dancing the Morenada in Quilloma, 2003 ∞≤.The Kullawada of 2000 in Rosas Pampa. Photo by David Campfens. 139 ∞≥.Ch’alla of the author’s room for Carnival 152 ∞∂.An August misa/mesa for Pachamama 152 ∞∑.166The Tent of the Holy Spirit, visiting Rosas Pampa ∞∏.191Schoolchildren parade in El Alto for Independence Day ∞π.193Civic parade in El Alto, passing the dignitaries on the stage ∞∫.An impromptu demonstration by the Federation of Street Traders 193

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