{"product_id":"sovereign-street","title":"Sovereign Street","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politically, rivaling and at times exceeding voting booths and halls of government. \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereign Street\u003c\/i\u003e documents this important period, showing how indigenous-led mass movements reconfigured the politics and racial order of Bolivia from 1999 to 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on interviews with protest participants, on-the-ground observation, and documentary research, activist and scholar Carwil Bjork-James provides an up-close history of the indigenous-led protests that changed Bolivia. At the heart of the study is a new approach to the interaction between protest actions and the parts of the urban landscape they claim. These “space-claiming protests” both communicate a message and exercise practical control over the city. Bjork-James interrogates both protest tactics—as experiences and as tools—and meaning-laden spaces, where meaning is part of the racial and political geography of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaking the streets of Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz as its vantage point, \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereign Street\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rare look at political revolution as it happens. It documents a critical period in Latin American history, when protests made headlines worldwide, where a generation of pro-globalization policies were called into question, and where the indigenous majority stepped into government power for the first time in five centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56709186748760,"sku":"9780816557066","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780816557066.jpg?v=1778778932","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/sovereign-street","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}