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This article analyses ethnic identity making in contemporary Bolivia by combining insights from constructivist political science, human geography, and other disciplines. It shows how transnational discursive frameworks and spatial imageries shape local ethnic identities through the practices of mixed actor networks that operate at local, national, regional, and international scales. Focusing on indigenous peoples in the Bolivian highlands who mobilise around the Andean ayllu (community), we argue that redefinition of indigenous identities includes the representation and validation of subjects and actors within transnational discourses cohering neoliberalism and multiculturalism. As indigenous movement platforms and concepts are increasingly institutionalised in official agencies and policy frameworks, their demands for culturally appropriate government and development are in practice implemented as governmentally and developmentally appropriate culture. These changes have therefore enabled and constrained the ayllu movement's ability to define its own identity and its access to political and economic resources. This case is emblematic of increasingly common transnational processes where multi-scalar changes in political visions, language, policies, and funding flows converge to reconstruct identities. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Andolina R, Radcliffe S, Laurie N
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Political Geography
Year: 2005
Volume: 24
Issue: 6
Pages: 678-702
Print publication date: 01/08/2005
ISSN (print): 0962-6298
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5096
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.03.001
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.03.001
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