Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia’s Challenge to Globalization
ISBN: 9780520942660
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Bolivia -- Foreign economic relations; Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Bolivia; Investments Foreign -- Bolivia;

Dignity and Defiance is a powerful, eyewitness account of Bolivia's decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. Based on extensive interviews, this story comes alive with first-person accounts of a massive Enron/Shell oil spill from an elderly woman whose livelihood it threatens, of the young people who stood down a former dictator to take back control of their water, and of Bolivia's dramatic and successful challenge to the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Featuring a substantial introduction, a conclusion, and introductions to each of the chapters, this well-crafted mix of storytelling and analysis is a rich portrait of people calling for global integration to be different than it has been: more fair and more just.

Shultz James :

Jim Shultz is Executive Director and Melissa Crane Draper is Assistant Director of the Democracy Center.


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