Visions of Transformation: Hegemony, Plurinationality, and Revolution in Bolivia
Aaron Augsburger, "Visions of Transformation: Hegemony, Plurinationality, and Revolution in Bolivia"
English | ISBN: 0816555206 | 2025 | 266 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 0816555206 | 2025 | 266 pages | PDF | 8 MB
On a wave of revolutionary upheaval in the early twenty-first century, Evo Morales was swept into state power as Bolivia’s first Indigenous president with a mandate to radically transform the country. The ensuing period, known simply as “el proceso de cambio” (the process of change), has been a tension-filled and contradictory process involving progressive transformations, ambiguous continuities, and outright revolutionary failures. Importantly, the contradictions have been just as much ideological as they are material.
By examining and illuminating the contrasting logics underlying opposing theories of revolutionary change, Visions of Transformation provides an analytical framework through which to understand and interpret the central conflicts and contradictions of Bolivia under Evo Morales and the Movimiento al Socialismo.
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