Tag: Indigenous Social Movements
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The communal and The Decolonial [09.06.09]
Published in Turbulence and in Analyse und Kritik I Imagine the world around 1500. It was a polycentric and non-capitalist world. There were many civilizations from China to Sub-Saharan Africa, but none of them dominated the other. There was a radical change in global history that we can summarize in two points: the emergence of…
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Bolivian New President is Something Altogether Different / 11.19.2006
The recent election of Evo Morales as president of Bolivia is unprecedented. It marks the first time in world history that an indigenous candidate (Aymara Indian in this case) was elected president by an overwhelming majority. His election has been described as a turn to the left, but that is not exactly correct. Morales, who…