Description: Further DetailsTitle: Along the Bolivian HighwayCondition: NewSubtitle: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle ClassISBN-10: 0812246144EAN: 9780812246148ISBN: 9780812246148Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/26/2014Description: Along the Bolivian Highway traces the emergence of a new middle class in Bolivia, a society commonly portrayed as the site of struggle between a superwealthy white minority and a destitute indigenous majority. Miriam Shakow shows how Bolivian middle classes have deeply shaped politics and social life. While national political leaders like Evo Morales have proclaimed a new era of indigenous power and state-led capitalism in place of racial exclusion and neoliberal free trade, Bolivians of indigenous descent who aspire to upward mobility have debated whether to try to rise within their country's longstanding hierarchies of race and class or to break down those hierarchies. The ascent of indigenous politics, and a boom in coca and cocaine production beginning in the 1970s, have created dilemmas for "middling" Bolivians who do not fit the prevailing social binaries of white elite and indigenous poor. In their family relationships, political activism, and community life, the new middle class confronted competing moral imperatives.Focusing on social and political struggles that hinged on class and racial status in a provincial boomtown in central Bolivia, Shakow recounts the experiences of first-generation teachers, agronomists, lawyers, and prosperous merchants. They puzzled over whom to marry, how to claim public interest in the face of accusations of selfishness, and whether to seek political patronage jobs amid high unemployment. By linking the intimate politics within families to regional and national power struggles, Along the Bolivian Highway sheds light on what it means to be middle class in the global south.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Miriam ShakowGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Contemporary EthnographyTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Along the Bolivian Highway
Title: Along the Bolivian Highway
Subtitle: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class
ISBN-10: 0812246144
EAN: 9780812246148
ISBN: 9780812246148
Release Date: 05/26/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Along the Bolivian Highway : Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, General, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Anthropology / General, Social Psychology
Item Weight: 21.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Miriam Shakow
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Psychology
Series: Contemporary Ethnography Ser.
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
