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An autobiographical vision of different modes of activism in the
last half century
Pablo RegalskyCENDACochabamba
• Activism as a personal drama
• Activism is a personal option but
the enabling circumstances
the institutional framework
What are the lessons?
• The 1968 movement: The understanding of collective action vis a vis the nation state as a challenge to the fragmentation of the subject
• 1975-1984: global crisis, the workers defeat and the emergence of ethnic movements.
• Understanding ethnic/class movements
• The challenge to territorial authority
Institutional framework
• NGOs as bridges towards reconstruction of state authority via governmentality (developmentalism, green revolution)
• The possibility to take advantage of governmentality strategies (CENDA) in support of collective subject strategies
Action-Research and the Collective Subject
• Politicisation of cultural difference• The issue of indigenous knowledge• Different forms of governance• Territory as jurisdictional rights of access
to resources
• The attempt at extending the authority of the state via decentralisation (1994). The “Political Instrument”
• The water wars (2000)• The state crisis (2003) and fall of
neoliberal government. • The demand for a sovereign Constituent
Assembly (1989-2000-2007).
Situation of territorial demands in Bolivia
INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES,
OIL Companies, Forestry & Mining
Industry
Concesiones Mineras
11 %
Concesiones Forestales
6 %
Concesiones Petroleras
15 %
AA.PP. 18 %
demandas TCO´s
30,3 %
TCO tituladas
9.9%
Fuente:VMT CPTI CEDIB elab propia
• We don’t recognize the legitimacy of the nation-state, it is not the source of our identity, we are the owners of this place and so we don’t pay taxes.
• We pay taxes so we have citizenship rights, we need to have recognition from the state because we recognize the nation-state as the source of my identity
2005-2010
• The rebuilding of the nation-state authority?
• The decline of western civilization?