The Social Life of Indianism: Politics and Indigeneity in Twenty-First-Century Bolivia
The Social Life of Indianism: Politics and Indigeneity in Twenty-First-Century Bolivia
by Tathagatan Ravindran
University of Texas Press, 2025
Cloth: 978-1-4773-3119-4 | Paper: 978-1-4773-3120-0 | eISBN: 978-1-4773-3121-7
Library of Congress Classification F3327.R38 2025
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.897084
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Calling for Indian Revolution: The Birth and Maturation of Indianist Ideology
- Chapter 2. Toward a New Common Sense: Indigenous Counterpublics and the Diffusion of Indianism
- Interlude 1. ¡Evo presidente!
- Chapter 3. A Journey without Guarantees: Ideological Refractions and the Emergence of Folk Indianism
- Chapter 4. “We Cannot Forget Our Roots!”: Ethnoracial Identities in Indianist Bolivia
- Chapter 5. When Folk Ideology Feeds Back into the Canon: Indianist Praxis between Revival and Refusal
- Chapter 6. Across the Wide Spectrum: Indianist Logics in State and Social Movement Discourses
- Interlude 2. The 2019 Coup and Its Aftermath
- Chapter 7. The Rebellion of the Wiphalas: Racist Backlash and the Radicalization of Folk Indianism
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index