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Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization (Paperback)

by J Shultz (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press (16 Dec 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0520256999
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520256996
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,073,215 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"For those interested in social justice, the book is well worth a read."--Law Society Journal


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"Dignity and Defiance" is a powerful, eyewitness account of Bolivia's decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. Based on extensive interviews, this story comes alive with first-person accounts of a massive Enron/Shell oil spill from an elderly woman whose livelihood it threatens, of the young people who stood down a former dictator to take back control of their water, and of Bolivia's dramatic and successful challenge to the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Featuring a substantial introduction, a conclusion, and introductions to each of the chapters, this well-crafted mix of storytelling and analysis is a rich portrait of people calling for global integration to be different than it has been: more fair and more just.
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5.0 out of 5 stars More heroic than Bond's Quantum of Solace! This is Real Life!, 20 Nov 2008
This review is from: Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization (Paperback)
This book came highly recommended to me by an indigenous Bolivian friend.

Although based on real life undercurrents in the region, the 2008 James Bond 'Quantum of Solace' is fictional, with our highly trained, state of the art technology equipped hero, eventually, after many spectacular visual-effects-enhanced exploits, gets the better of the bad guys.
"Dignity and Defiance" is more heroic than Bond, because it is real life, with real people fighting against the giants of industry and finance, fighting against corrupt government. It is an account of ordinary Bolivian people, their courage even more extraordinary because of their humble roots, and their decade-long struggle against globalization imposed by foreign companies and foreign governments.

Quoting from the book's publisher's, Merlin Press Ltd.:

DIGNITY AND DEFIANCE
Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization - Edited by Jim Shultz and Melissa Crane Draper
An introduction to contemporary conflicts and popular struggles.
How can people in Bolivia improve their lives if they do not control resources around them?
How should they relate to the force of capital and of far away international financial institutions?
The book presents experiences and voices of Bolivians:
* the voices of people left without water,
* the voices of workers,
* women and
* indigenous peoples.
It portrays the impact of water, oil and gas companies, considers economic change and the role of the IMF, looks at the lives of people in town and country, and explores the causes of emigration. It provokes questions about the role of multinational capital and whose interests it serves?

"In documenting Bolivia's epic struggle to free itself, this very fine book puts paid to insidious propaganda that ordinary people cannot overcome extraordinary obstacles and change their lives for the better. A vital, inspiring read." John Pilger

"If Bolivia seems to have been in permanent crisis over the last decade, this book shows vividly why and how that has been the case. The clear, authoritative chapters derive from first-hand knowledge as well as personal engagement. They explain why control of the government is just part of the story, and that Bolivia is in no way isolated from the rest of the world, but painfully part of the global economy. Perhaps most tellingly, the book shows how some of the poorest people in the western hemisphere have challenged seemingly insuperable economic forces and the supposed "common sense" upholding them." James Dunkerley

"Dignity and Defiance forces the abstract and sanitized theory of globalization to get down and dirty in the real world: in the oil spills, the coca fields, the border crossings, the political massacres. This is the little known story of a people that has dared to fight back against the most powerful economic forces on the planet, told by writers with the courage to dig relentlessly for the truth and the humility to stand back and let their subjects speak for themselves. Enraging, unsparing, inspiring." Naomi Klein, author The Shock Doctrine
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