ANTH 4701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Pavlovo Bus Factory, Deindustrialization, Neoliberalism
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Source (s): rebel cities by harv e y. Started local and spread through the region until it was a national level in el alto. Large indigenous population: one of two landlocked countries in south america, along the mountains, dependent on peru, brazil, and chile, white european landowners remained in control. 1980s, neoliberal restructuring and deindustrialization of tin mines: democratization. Flat, high land to the west: el alto plano de la paz. Informal economy, transit/service workers commute to la paz: residents awaken to political ability, center of the country politically. 2000s, protesters set up barricades and blocked access to the capital; able to make demands. Shut down twice in 2000: october 2003, got president to resign. January 2005, another president resigned: new president in 2006. Indigenous rights, social projects (social spending to mitigate cost of neoliberal policies in 1980s) environmental protections. How was el alto able to do this: organize outside traditional 20th century forms of political organization.
