Beyond the Zeitgeist of 'Post-neoliberal' Theory in Latin America: The Politics of Anti-colonial Struggles in Bolivia

摘要

On 19 October 2011 I joined approximately 3000 marchers on the descent into La Paz, the final destination of the historic 66-day march in defence of the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS). Tens of thousands of Bolivian citizens lined the streets along the route chanting in solidarity with the marchers and demanding the cancellation of the government's planned highway set to cut through the ancestral lands of the lowland indigenous people of the Yuracares, Mojenos and Tsimanes. Such an outpouring against the once popular President,