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ImageJune 28, 2015July 13, 2015 Carwil Bjork-James

I’m in Bolivia on a three-week trip to this country where political engagement, creativity, and reclaiming respect are watchwords of recent life.

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Book cover of The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia by Carwil Bjork-James

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A La Paz municipal government funded street mural expresses gratitude to the portion of public that pays their taxes. #lapaz #bolivia #mural #governance
Man walks with a placard reading, "ALBA: International Anti-Imperialist Solidarity," in a march welcoming visiting Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to Cochabamba in March 2011. ALBA is an economic alliance of leftist Latin American governments. #ALBA #boliviarian #antiimperialismo #antiimperialism #protest #march #marcha #Bolivia #Cochabamba #Venezuela #lacallesoberana #sovereignstreet
Militant and festive street art mural on the streets of Cochabamba, 2010. #artecallejero #graffiti #streetart #sovereignstreet #lacallesoberana
Union leaders stand alert during the national athem at the anniversary celebration of the MAS-IPSP party in Sacaba, Bolivia, 2011. The flag in the party's blue, white, and black colors has the face of President Evo Morales, and the text, "One country, One leader." It alternates with the checkered rainbow wiphala, an Andean indigenous flag.
_The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia_ is out in the world! And as its author, it's a pleasure to have it in hand. This book tells the story of Bolivia’s twenty-first century revolution based on the year I spent in the country interviewing protest participants and gathering information of all kinds about how hundreds of thousands of people acted together to turn back neoliberal policies, overthrow two presidents, and reclaim spaces of the city and parts of the state for Bolivia’s indigenous majority. I also narrate the emerging tensions between parts of the left grassroots coalition and the president they brought to power, Evo Morales. The Sovereign Street is at once an event-driven history of revolution in Bolivia, an insider’s how-to guide for the ways those events came together, and an analytical exploration of why these kinds of actions had the political impact they did. This book is for scholars who study social change and people who desire to bring it about, people who feel connected to Bolivia and its indigenous majority, and people who simply want to learn how racial and political power structures can be changed by everyday people acting together. You can get it too! Links in bio, use discount code AZFLR for30% off at University of Arizona Press.
Mural on the Cochabamba Central Post Office Building by Mona Caron (@mona.caron) celebrates Andean heritage, letters, and the city of Cochabamba. #ecobol #correos #postoffice #mural #artecallejero #andeancondor #textiles #streetart #lacallesoberana #sovereignstreet
Anarchist graffiti in Potosí: "Hope is Utopia's girlfriend and Freedom's lover." Graffiti anarquista en Potosí: "La Esperanza es novia de la Utopia y amante de la Libertad." #potosi #anarquismo #anarquista #anarchism #Bolivia #Potosí #graffiti #streetart #artecallejero #grafiteadas #lacallesoberana #sovereignstreet
The view up Perez Velasco, the central transport artery of La Paz, Bolivia where the El Alto–La Paz highway merges into downtown. #LaPaz #Bolivia #sovereignstreet #lacallesoberana
Mountains rise in the distance behind Cochabamba's Avenida Blanco Galindo, the main thoroughfare connecting the city to the Altiplano cities of Oruro and La Paz. #cochabamba #sunset #mountains #bolivia #sovereignstreet #lacallesoberana
A multi-story public market under construction in 2008 adjacent to the Plaza San Francisco in La Paz, Bolivia. #LaPaz #Bolivia #publicspace #lacallesoberana #sovereignstreet

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The Sovereign Street, out in March 2020 from University of Arizona Press.
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