Between resistance and negotiation: indigenous organisations and the Bolivian State in the case of TIPNIS. Issue 4 (7th June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hirsch, Cecilie
• Is Part Of: Journal of peasant studies. Volume 46:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 811
• Page End: 830
• Publication Date: 2019-06-07
• Subjects: political ecology -- indigenous peoples -- social movements -- state-society relations -- resource conflicts; Peasantry -- Periodicals; Sociology, Rural -- Periodicals; Rural development -- Periodicals; 305.563305
• DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2017.1394846
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-6150

Abstract

Abstract : A government-driven road-building project, crossing the national park and demarcated indigenous communitarian native land Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS) in the Bolivian Amazon, has caused considerable debate, divisions and conflict. Based on extensive fieldwork in Bolivia, I examine the conflict between 2011 and 2013, focusing on specific cases of micro-politics with examples of changing strategies, local negotiations and strategic framings in the interactions between the indigenous organisations and the state involved in the conflict. I show that the evolution of the conflict has been affected by these micro-political issues, as well as strategic state projects. Secondly, I focus on how discursive framings have legitimised advanced or marginalised certain solutions, ideas and interests.