 | DIGNITY AND DEFIANCE
Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization
Edited by Jim Shultz and Melissa Crane Draper
An introduction to contemporary conflicts and popular struggles.
How can people in Bolivia improve their lives if they do not control resources around them?
How should they relate to the force of capital and of far away international financial institutions?
The book presents experiences and voices of Bolivians:
· the voices of people left without water,
· the voices of workers,
· women and
· indigenous peoples.
It portrays the impact of water, oil and gas companies, considers economic change and the role of the IMF, looks at the lives of people in town and country, and explores the causes of emigration. It provokes questions about the role of multinational capital and whose interests it serves?
"In documenting Bolivia's epic struggle to free itself, this very fine book puts paid to insidious propaganda that ordinary people cannot overcome extraordinary obstacles and change their lives for the better. A vital, inspiring read." John Pilger
"If Bolivia seems to have been in permanent crisis over the last decade, this book shows vividly why and how that has been the case. The clear, authoritative chapters derive from first-hand knowledge as well as personal engagement. They explain why control of the government is just part of the story, and that Bolivia is in no way isolated from the rest of the world, but painfully part of the global economy. Perhaps most tellingly, the book shows how some of the poorest people in the western hemisphere have challenged seemingly insuperable economic forces and the supposed "common sense" upholding them." James Dunkerley
"Dignity and Defiance forces the abstract and sanitized theory of globalization to get down and dirty in the real world: in the oil spills, the coca fields, the border crossings, the political massacres. This is the little known story of a people that has dared to fight back against the most powerful economic forces on the planet, told by writers with the courage to dig relentlessly for the truth and the humility to stand back and let their subjects speak for themselves. Enraging, unsparing, inspiring." Naomi Klein, author The Shock Doctrine
ISBN. 978 0 85036 684 6
234 x 156 mm.
Paperback 330 pages
Published October 2008
Contents here ...
Price:£15.95
|
|
