Full List
of publications
Journal Articles
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. “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).
2019
- Bjork-James, Carwil. “Race and the Right to Speak for the City: Political Violence in Bolivia’s 2006–2009 Stalemate.” UAS: Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 48, no. 3-4 (2019): 263–305.
2018
- Bjork‐James, Carwil. “Binding Leaders to the Community: The Ethics of Bolivia’s Organic Grassroots.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 23, no. 2 (2018): 363–382. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12325
2016
- Bjork-James, Carwil. “Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena (review).” Anthropological Quarterly 89, no. 1 (2016): 283–294. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2016.0018
2015
- Bjork-James, Carwil. “Hunting Indians: Globally Circulating Ideas and Frontier Practices in the Colombian Llanos.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 57, no. 01 (2015): 98–129. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417514000619
Book Chapters
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. “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.
2020
- 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. “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.
Books
2020
- Bjork-James, Carwil. The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020.