Fontana, L. B. (2015) Fratricide identities: the land conflict between indigenous Leco and peasant unions in Apolo, Bolivia. Social Identities, 21(3), pp. 273-293. (doi: 10.1080/13504630.2015.1041018)
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Abstract
This article explores processes of identity-building and claims-making by rural social groups in the context of recent multicultural and plurinational reforms in Bolivia, focusing on an analysis of the narrative apparatus that underpins a paradigmatic land conflict between an indigenous organization and a peasant union in the Bolivian Amazon. The institutional shift that characterized the country after Evo Morales’ election has been reflected and absorbed at the local level. Here, however, the new claims for recognition cannot be understood only through the –often abused – lenses of ‘resistance struggle’, ‘cultural oppression’ and ‘political discrimination of minorities’. In fact, these claims are the result of a complex interaction between institutional changes, and social actors’ ability to respond to them, proposing powerful narratives that provide society and individuals with new shared meanings and mechanisms of self-identification.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Fontana, Dr Lorenza |
| Authors: | Fontana, L. B. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences |
| Journal Name: | Social Identities |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| ISSN: | 1350-4630 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1363-0296 |
| Published Online: | 10 June 2015 |
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