Indigenous Political Voice and the Struggle for Recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia

Over the last three decades, indigenous movements in Ecuador and Bolivia have grown increasingly powerful and made great gains in political voice. Different structures of opportunity in each country, however, made Ecuadorian indigenous movements more unified than Bolivian ones. This background paper...

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Main Author:	Lucero, Jose Antonio
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2006
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9139

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spelling	okr-10986-91392021-04-23T14:02:44Z Indigenous Political Voice and the Struggle for Recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia Lucero, Jose Antonio World Development Report 2006 Over the last three decades, indigenous movements in Ecuador and Bolivia have grown increasingly powerful and made great gains in political voice. Different structures of opportunity in each country, however, made Ecuadorian indigenous movements more unified than Bolivian ones. This background paper briefly explores the common conditions that enabled indigenous people to challenge the terms of recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia as well as the contrasting contexts which have produced different patterns of indigenous political action. It suggests that indigenous organizations in Ecuador have been more central actors in the politics of �development encounters� while Bolivian movements remained more regionally fragmented and politically divided. 2012-06-26T15:39:27Z 2012-06-26T15:39:27Z 2004 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9139 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Latin America & Caribbean
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description	Over the last three decades, indigenous movements in Ecuador and Bolivia have grown increasingly powerful and made great gains in political voice. Different structures of opportunity in each country, however, made Ecuadorian indigenous movements more unified than Bolivian ones. This background paper briefly explores the common conditions that enabled indigenous people to challenge the terms of recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia as well as the contrasting contexts which have produced different patterns of indigenous political action. It suggests that indigenous organizations in Ecuador have been more central actors in the politics of �development encounters� while Bolivian movements remained more regionally fragmented and politically divided.
author	Lucero, Jose Antonio
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title	Indigenous Political Voice and the Struggle for Recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia
title_short	Indigenous Political Voice and the Struggle for Recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia
title_full	Indigenous Political Voice and the Struggle for Recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia
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Indigenous Political Voice and the Struggle for Recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia

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