The Rise of Evo Morales and the MAS

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* Preface: A Journey * PART I * 1. Bolivia's Political History * - Crisis of Representation in Bolivia * - From Revolution to Dictatorship to Transition: 1952 - 1978 * - Bolivian nationalism - a brief history * - Origins of Bolivian nationalism * - The 1952 Revolution and the Nacionalismo Revolucionario * - Assimilationist Nation * - Democratic Institutions sine Democratic Politics * - Coca: A brief sketch of a damned holy plant * - War on Drugs * 2. Evo's youth and upbringing * - Evo * - Evo's University: Looking for another form of democracy * - School of Democracy * - Relative structurality of signifiers: origins of Evo Morales's notion of the nation * 3. Rise of Coca Growers (mid 1980s to early 1990s) * - History of the Coca Growers' Movement * - Structuring Force of Society * - Internal functioning * - Formalized Organizational Structure * -The Assemblies * - Type and Sequence of Meetings * - Leadership * - Coca Discourse: Defending the sacred leaf * - Uniting heterogeneity in a chain of equivalence * - From stigmatized plant to symbol of sovereignty * PART II * 4. Morales's Political Instrument? The creation of MAS (early 1990s) * - Brief history of the 'Instrumento Politico' MAS * - MAS: a bottom-up perspective of the party * - Movement-Cum-Party * - Old wine in new bottles or really something new? * - President Morales: a product of the reforms of his adversaries? * - Long-term Grievances * 5. Outside challengers rise amidst waves of protests (1995-2002) * - Second Generation Reforms * - Party Politics - Where is the 'silent revolution'? * - Waves of Conflicts * - War on drugs * - The Year 2000: a turning point? * - Guerra del Agua in 2000 * - Guerra del Gas or Octubre Negro 2003 * - Conclusion * 6. MAS rises to political dominance (2002-2005) * - Reaching out to other social movements * - Lack of clear structures: A new form of doing politics? * - Institutionalizing party structures * - Opening the party lists * - Leadership * - Characteristics of leaders * - Election of candidates * - Organizational problems * 7. Companero Evo: The Symbol of the Pluricultural People * - The People * - Who are The People? * - Mobilizing people to become 'The People' * - The People and the Exercise of Power * - Construction of Identity * - 'The people' in Morales's discourse * - Somos MAS, Somos el Pueblo * - Who constitute 'the people' in Bolivia? * - Implications of the new articulation of 'the people' * - Conclusion * PART III * 8. Bolivia's first indigenous President (2005-2010) * - Bolivia under President Morales * - Morales: Nationalist and Populist? * - The Imagining of the Nation as 'Nation of Nations' * - The 'Plurinational' Nation * - Filling the 'Plurinational' Nation with Meaning * - What holds the diversity together * - Imagining the nation: recovering its sovereignty * - Imagining a 'productive' nation: re-thinking development * - Dignity * - A new imaginary of the nation: challenging existing power relations * 9. Refounding the State - The Foundational Promise of Populism * - Introduction * - Building a New State - What had to change? * - Recover and Refound the State * - The Target of Change: Defining the StateError! Bookmark not defined. * - Refounding the New State - Alternative Form of Modernity * - Principles of a New State * - Relationship between culture and the state * - The Path to Change: Asamblea Constituyente * - Great Expectations: Constituent Assembly as collective ritual * - Bolivia's New ConstitutionError! Bookmark not defined. * - Analyzing the Role of the State * - Conclusion * 10. Conclusion: The difficult road ahead President Morales and the MAS * -The dangerous path towards re-institutionalization