• ISBN13: 9780857423344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books
• Publication Date: December 10, 2023
• Pages: 456
• Original Price: INR 799.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 730 grams

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the work of Bolivian political thinker Rene Zavaleta (1939 84), whose ideas were a key influence on many of the indigenous activists and ideologues who have transformed Bolivian politics and economics in recent years. Luis Tapia, a political analyst who has worked closely with many of the central figures in today's Bolivian government, presents a detailed panorama of Bolivian history that sets Zavaleta's analyses in context and helps readers and activists alike understand the history and ideological currents that underpinned the rise of the neo-indigenous movement in the twenty-first century. "Tapia is the greatest scholar of the work of his countryman." Jaime Ortega Reyna, SciELO Mexico

Luis Tapia Mealla is a philosopher, teacher, and researcher. He is the director of the Multidisciplinary Doctoral Program in Developmental Sciences at the Universidad Mayor de San Andr s and National Autonomous University of Mexico. Alison Spedding is a British anthropologist and novelist who has lived in Bolivia since 1986.