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Sustainable Development, Volume 31, Issue 5, Page 3408-3427, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines two major policy frameworks for achieving sustainable development: the market‐based ‘Green Economy’ approach (exemplified by South Korea), and the redistributive ‘Living Well’ approach (exemplified by Bolivia). We compare the two paradigms in qualitative terms using document analysis, and we assess quantitatively how they
Karen Bell +3 more
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Building Mistrust: ‘Minha Casa Minha Vida’ and its Political Effects in Rio de Janeiro
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 41, Issue 5, Page 724-738, November 2022., 2022 Considering the recent decrease in Rio de Janeiro working‐class voters' support for the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, Workers' Party), this article investigates a largely unexplored factor behind this shift: the influence of the federal housing programme Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV, My House, My Life), designed by the PT.
Silvia Stefani
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Timerendering: reflections on chronopolitical praxis in Bolivia
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 788-806, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This article uses reflections on chronopolitical praxis during the period 2006‐19 in Bolivia in order to make a more general contribution to the anthropology of time and temporalities. The article proposes the theoretical concept of ‘timerendering’ in order to examine the ways in which time emerged as a pervasive register that mediated and ...
Mark Goodale
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Globalising sustainable development: Decolonial disruptions and environmental justice in Bolivia
Area, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 176-184, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the new global development goals guiding the work of mainstream development actors until 2030. The shift to “sustainable development” marks a response to climate change and constitutes a rebranding of international development as global development, prominently by the UN, World ...
Jessica Hope
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Baroque Modernity in Latin America: Situating Indigeneity, Urban Indigeneity and the Popular Economy
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 6-20, January 2022., 2022 This article uses the Bolivian city of El Alto as a lens through which to evaluate the place of urban indigeneity and the popular economy within Latin American modernity. Whilst some express worries over the erosion of indigenous ways of life and others see urban indigenous practices as defying capitalist modernity, I argue that these emergent forms of
Angus McNelly
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Exporting the Chavista Model: The Venezuelan Case for Autocracy Promotion in the Region
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 123-140, January 2022., 2022 President Hugo Chávez strove to change the socio‐political and economic system of his country, Venezuela. His revolutionary mission implied a strong regional projection and was intended to disseminate his transformative project in the wider region. This article focuses on the outward‐directed efforts of Chávez to shape his regional environment and ...
Marianne Kneuer
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The Case of Piruani: Contested Justice, Legal Pluralism, and Indigeneity in Highland Bolivia
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 60-74, May 2021., 2021 Abstract The 2009 Bolivian constitution included provisions that establish a radical form of de jure legal pluralism by creating a parallel legal system that gives full recognition to the nonstate legal orders and forms of conflict resolution of Indigenous communities.
Matthew Doyle
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 208-222, March 2021., 2021 In this paper I argue that assemblage theory provides an innovative way to extend critique of sustainable development as it is being remade by the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Drawing on recent fieldwork in Bolivia, I examine the early take‐up and implementation of the SDGs in a site of intensifying resource extraction and ...
Jessica Hope
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Los tranvías en los países del socialismo real de los años 1960 y 1970: de la crisis al impulso [PDF]
, 2021 Producción CientíficaDurante las décadas de 1950 y 1960, tanto en Occidente como en Oriente, la carretera se convirtió en el medio universal de transporte y el Movimiento Moderno triunfó en el urbanismo, de modo que el sistema tranviario se vio como un ...
Santos Ganges, Luis +2 more
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La riflessione sul «socialismo reale»
Studi storici, 2020 The role played by Rosario Villari as a public intellectual was closely connected to his political and historical reflections on Soviet Socialism. This paper analyses his interventions in two distinct moments. Firstly, Villari’s contribution to debates on dissent in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, when he was a member of ...
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