State expansion in Bolivia and resistance: between hegemonies and autonomies

• Autor(a) principal: Pannain, Rafaela Nunes
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/35466
• topic: Plurinational State of Bolivia; Evo Morales; Indigenous autonomy; Neoliberalism; Neo-extrativism; Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia; Evo Morales; Autonomías Indígenas; Neoliberalismo; Neo-extractivismo; Estado Plurinacional da Bolívia; Evo Morales; Autonomias Indígenas; Neoliberalismo; Neoextrativismo

As Evo Morales tries to run for his fourth presidential term, this article aims to shed some light on the growing distance between his government and part of the subaltern sectors responsible for its rising and consolidation. One may only understand the election of Morales in 2005 and the growth of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), bearing in mind the cycle of protest that challenged the political-economic model adopted bytheBoliviangovernments since 1985, markedbypolitical elites’ coalitions, and the adoption of neoliberal policies. In Morales’ first term, the national economy was reoriented, and a new state form was under construction. Nevertheless, we can observe the increasing contradictions related to two goals of this political project: the recognition of the social and political diversity existing in Bolivia and the state expansion. The debate around the autonomous indigenous governments illuminates the conflicts regarding the distribution of political power to subaltern sectors – the protagonists of the cycle of protests and its consequences –, and the adoption by the central government of a neo-extractivist economic model.