Mapping a New Geography of Space and Power

Autores

  • Nicole Fabricant Towson University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/bsj.2010.2

Palavras-chave:

Agrarian Revolution, Fifth Indigenous March for Land and Territory, INRA Law, MST Mobilizations, New Agrarian Reform Law, Politics of Food, Radical Politics of Land Redistribution, Reinvention of Space

Resumo

In this paper, I analyze the ways in which MST-Bolivia (Movimiento Sin Tierra) forged a national-level movement through one counter-hegemonic event: the Fifth Indigenous March for Land and Territory, which originated in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in October 2006.  This march enacted a powerful performance of pan-indigenous solidarity and nationalistic sentiment which led to a public declaration by president Evo Morales to approve the New Agrarian Reform Law. I focus in particular on the organizational and spatial structure of the march, and on the significance of seizing public space in protest.  

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Publicado

2011-01-15