Publications

Recent Publications

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2025

• Bjork-James, Carwil. “Cuando los estados “plurinacionales” socavan los territorios indígenas: TIPNIS en Bolivia.” In Paisajes de Inequidad La Justicia Ambiental en la Región Andino-Amazónica, edited by Robins, Nicholas A. and Fraser, Barbara J.. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2025. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=32394425

2024

• Bjork-James, Carwil. “When Does Lethal Repression Fail? Unarmed Militancy and Backfire in Bolivia, 1982–2021.” Journal of Latin American Studies 56, no. 1 (2024): 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X24000208
• Bjork-James, Carwil. “Del pluralismo indígena al extractivismo centralizado: Cómo las prerrogativas estatales reformaron el enfoque territorial de Bolivia plurinacional.” In La Amazonía andina en el siglo XXI: Neoextractivismos, fronteras y resistencias, edited by López, María Fernanda and García, Fernando, 113–143. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2024.
• Bjork-James, Carwil. “When Does Lethal Repression Fail? Unarmed Militancy and Backfire in Bolivia, 1982–2021.” Journal of Latin American Studies 56, no. 1 (2024): 1–36. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/when-does-lethal-repression-fail-unarmed-militancy-and-backfire-in-bolivia-19822021/EF57368D13F9C5683EE42BD9025F2B6B
• Bjork-James, Carwil. “Tactics of Political Violence in the 2019 Bolivian Crisis: Return of the Catastrophic Stalemate?.” Bolivian Studies Journal (2024): 188–226. http://bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/bsj/article/view/320

2021

• Bjork-James, Carwil. “New maps for an inclusive Wikipedia: decolonial scholarship and strategies to counter systemic bias.” New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 27, no. 3 (2021): 207–228. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2020.1865463
• Bjork-James, Carwil. ““We Are MAS 2.0”.” NACLA Report on the Americas 53, no. 1 (2021): 7–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2021.1891626

2020

• Bjork-James, Carwil. “Unarmed Militancy: Tactical Victories, Subjectivity, and Legitimacy in Bolivian Street Protest.” American Anthropologist 122, no. 3 (2020).
• Bjork-James, Carwil. “Tick-tock coverage of the overthrow of Evo Morales: An evolving list.” Carwil without Borders (2020). https://woborders.blog/2020/01/08/tick-tock-evo-overthrow/
• Bjork-James, Carwil. “When “Plurinational” States Undermine Indigenous Territories: TIPNIS in Bolivia.” In Landscapes of Inequity: The Quest for Environmental Justice in the Andes/Amazon Region, 127–165. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
• Bjork-James, Carwil. “Mass Protest and State Repression in Bolivian Political Culture: Putting the Gas War and the 2019 Crisis in Perspective.” Research Working Paper Series (2020). https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CBjork-James_20_003.pdf
• Bjork-James, Carwil. The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020.
• Bjork-James, Carwil. “Left Populism in the Heart of South America: From Plurinational Promise to a Renewed Extractive Nationalism.” In Beyond Populism: Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism, edited by Maskovsky, Jeff and Bjork-James, Sophie, 209–236. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2020.