Colonial Fetishism and Urban Uprooting. Technological Resistances in Bolivia

This article analyses the technological resistance of different social, citizen, and community collectives of young Aymara people in the Bolivian cities of El Alto and La Paz facing structures of the materiality of coloniality. This analysis is based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with lea...

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Published inJournal of poverty Vol. 27; no. 6-7; pp. 549 - 565
Main Authors Ramos-Martín, Juan, Barrientos-Garrido, María Reneé
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Binghamton Routledge 10.11.2023
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Collectives
colonialidad
Colonialism
Coloniality
desarraigo
Fetishism
imaginaries
imaginarios
Resistance
resistencia
technopolitics
tecnopolítica
uprootedness
Youth
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Summary:This article analyses the technological resistance of different social, citizen, and community collectives of young Aymara people in the Bolivian cities of El Alto and La Paz facing structures of the materiality of coloniality. This analysis is based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with leaders of two collectives of technological resistance defending Aymara's indigenous identity. The results show how their forms of political organization and repertoire of contentions, memories of resistance, socio-technical imaginaries, and historical identities achieve technological resistance structures capable of confronting the forms of institutionality that assume the coloniality of power and knowledge in the Andean country.
ISSN:1087-5549
1540-7608
DOI:10.1080/10875549.2023.2214990