Río Grande is a small town full of trucks. They loom over new arrivals, lining almost every street. It is in their imposing presence that one gets a first glimpse of the deep entanglements Río Grande has and had with…
Tag: Bolivia
An Energy Assemblage in Practice
Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier formulated the concept of Global Assemblages as a response and alternative to universalizing concepts thought up to make sense of what they call global forms, abstract entities such as bioscience or finance that have global…
The politics of forever in Bolivia come to an end—at least for now
In January 2009, just before the national vote on the country’s radical new constitution, Evo Morales was in the full flush of revolutionary fervor. Addressing a gathering of Movement to Socialism (MAS) members at the seventh annual all-party congress in…
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Making Sense of the Crisis in Bolivia
Following on the surprise resignations of Evo Morales and Álvaro García Linera (among others) on November 10, it is important to create some clarity among the fog of misinformation, disinformation, and downright biased reporting about the crisis in Bolivia. First,…