Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class

✍ Scribed by Miriam Shakow

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book narrates the unexpected dilemmas middle-class Bolivians have faced following the coming to power of a left-wing, indigenous movement. Shakow argues that new middle classes in Bolivia, as elsewhere in the Third World, constitute a significant force that profoundly shapes politics and social life.

This book narrates the unexpected dilemmas middle-class Bolivians have faced following the coming to power of a left-wing, indigenous movement. Shakow argues that new middle classes in Bolivia, as elsewhere in the Third World, constitute a significant force that profoundly shapes politics and social life.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Note on Language
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Formation of a New Middle Class
Chapter 2. The Intimate Politics of New Middle Classes in Sacaba
Chapter 3. Middling Sacabans Respond to Evo and MAS
Chapter 4. Condemning Clientelism
Chapter 5. Laments of Betrayal
Chapter 6. Middle Classes and Debates over the Definition of Community
Conclusion
Notes
Family Tree of Doña Saturnina Ramírez
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments