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In her @AmAnthroJournal review of The Sovereign Street, radical scholar Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar calls it "a seed of hope in these hard times" and "a fresh perspective, contributing important, generalizable lessons from those complex events that occurred in Bolivia."Permalink On twitter.com
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"The book returns, with a fresh look and in English, to a time charged with energetic possibilities of transforming economic and political power in Bolivia, precisely through what thousands and thousands of men and women did in the streets."Permalink On twitter.com
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"Bjork-James focuses his successful work on examining organizational forms through which the inhabitants of those cities, linked together in heterogeneous ways, managed to produce dissident common sense and mobilize with enough force to alter history."On twitter.com
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"The first contribution is his call to 'look with two eyes,' perceiving questions of both race and class together, in order to comprehend the mobilization and uprisings."Permalink On twitter.com
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"Bjork-James’s call to open a dialogue with the extensive knowledge that exists, especially in some regions of the United States, on the fight against racism and its horrible results of social and economic inequality is more than suggestive."Permalink On twitter.com
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"The 2nd contribution in The Sovereign Street is a sustained mode of thinking about the meaning of revolution. This is immensely stimulating, especially after 2 decades of progressive governments that have exposed their inability to subvert extractivist political regimes in LatAmPermalink On twitter.com
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"By presenting the revolution as an enormous cultural phenomenon … the book reopens an important debate that had remained partially closed due to the limited political strategy on the left of 'occupation'—by any means—of government institutions."Permalink On twitter.com
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"The author's urgency to return to the theme of revolution now as an 'object of anthropological study,' through careful ethnographic approaches, is refreshing both in theoretical debates and in the much broader public political discussion."Permalink On twitter.com