Abstract
This paper explores the changes encountered by the course of the Bolivian social imaginary. The case study of Bolivia allows me to construct the politics of place of this plurinational Latin American society: first, the rigid elitist dimension of the civic nation-state; second, a more fluid conversation about how ethnic diversity might be recognized without attributing it solely to the politics of the state. Since my paper moves from the civic nation into the analysis of national ethnicities, so do the metaphors that governed the imaginary of both realities. The confrontation between both types of nation also gave rise to the temporal conflict that takes center stage in my approach to a theory of locality. Consequently, the spatial organization of the nation-state will end up being challenged by the disorderly “noncontemporaneous” temporal nature of present-day ethnic movements.
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