Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia

Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780803296879
• eBook ISBN: 9781496201706
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: Social Sciences

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún-INAH Award in Mexico for Best Research Work in Anthropology Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal examines the political dimension of indigenous media production and distribution as a means by which indigenous organizations articulate new claims on national politics in Bolivia, a country experiencing one of the most notable cases of social mobilization and indigenous-based constitutional transformation in contemporary Latin America. Based on fieldwork in Bolivia from 2005 to 2007, Zamorano Villarreal details how grassroots indigenous media production has been instrumental to indigenous political demands for a Constituent Assembly and for implementing the new constitution within Evo Morales's controversial administration. On a day-to-day basis, Zamorano Villarreal witnessed the myriad processes by which Bolivia's indigenous peoples craft images of political struggle and enfranchisement to produce films about their role in Bolivian society. Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia contributes a wholly new and original perspective on indigenous media worlds in Bolivia: the collaborative and decolonizing authorship of indigenous media against the neoliberal multicultural state, and its key role in reimagining national politics.Zamorano Villarreal unravels the negotiations among indigenous media makers about how to fairly depict a gender, territorial, or justice conflict in their films to promote grassroots understanding of indigenous peoples in Bolivia's multicultural society.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Past Insurrections, Imagined Futures
• 2. The Plan Nacional, a Process of Indigenous Communication
• 3. Indigenous Media Makers as Political Subjects
• 4. The Political Possibilities of Fiction
• 5. Disputes for Indigeneity
• 6. Narrative and Aesthetics
• 7. Politics of Distribution
• Conclusions
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal