From Development to Dictatorship

Field, Thomas C.

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“…Zavaleta's Boswell is Luís Tapia ([2002] 2018). Limitations of space force me to short-change discussion of important new work on U.S.-Bolivian relations during and after the MNR era, but see especially Field (2014) and Siekmeier (2011). 31 Aymara sociologist Pablo Mamani Ramírez (2004,2012,2017) has emerged as a major intellectual, scholar, and activist regarding the formation of Bolivia's plurinational state and urban popular uprisings.…”

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Revisiting Bolivian Studies: Reflections on Theory, Scholarship, and Activism since 1980

Larson¹

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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As both a focus and locus of vibrant scholarly work, the field of Bolivian studies burst onto the international scene, carving a distinctive niche for itself within the larger fields of Andean and Latin American studies over the past twenty-five years. Bolivia went from being the hemisphere’s “least studied” country, according to a 1984 LASA Forum survey, to becoming a beacon of intercultural dialogue, vanguard scholarship, and postcolonial debate. This essay traces Bolivian studies’ coming of age. Plotting the field’s developments and dialogues across history, anthropology, and ethnohistory, it argues that a dual process of academic decentering and epistemic reinvention unfolded in Bolivia at the height of its indigenous and popular mobilizations during the 1990s and early 2000s. The article closes by identifying five thematic clusters of recent research and briefly reflects on the place of Bolivian scholarship in the wider purview of Andean studies.

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Section: Popular Resistancementioning

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Revisiting Bolivian Studies: Reflections on Theory, Scholarship, and Activism since 1980

Larson¹

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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A lliance for P rogress (1961–69)

Field

2018

The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy

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The Alliance for Progress (1961–69) was a Cold War regional foreign aid initiative aimed at countering the radicalizing effects of the 1959 Cuban revolution in Latin America. The Alliance was based on anti‐communist academic theories of Third World modernization, and its aid funding was conditioned strictly on political reforms within participating countries. Targeting 2.5 percent growth over a ten‐year “decade of development,” President John F. Kennedy's Alliance envisioned $20 billion of US public and private investment flowing into Latin America over ten years. Scholarly views on the Alliance have been divided, with historians balancing its political and economic successes in avoiding a second Cuba and achieving annualized growth rates of around 3 percent against its ultimate failure to shore up democracy in a region soon beset by a wave of military coups d'état .

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Remaking the World

Macekura¹

2020

A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations

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From Development to Dictatorship

Cited by 90 publications

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Revisiting Bolivian Studies: Reflections on Theory, Scholarship, and Activism since 1980

Revisiting Bolivian Studies: Reflections on Theory, Scholarship, and Activism since 1980

A lliance for P rogress (1961–69)

Remaking the World

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