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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Cochabamba"”.
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In-between Music: The Musical Creation of Cholo Identity in Cochabamba, Bolivia
… music to create a hybrid identity in and around Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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Debating sustainable development in global climate change policy: The “Cancún agreements” v. the “People’s agreement of Cochabamba”
… resulting in the 2010 “People’s Agreement of Cochabamba”). In this paper I will juxtapose these two climate conferences, and the political maneuvering of various political actors that led to them, to demonstrate how various national, regional, and international power configurations led to two …
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The Social Life of Teen Attention: Navigating Citizenship, Schooling and the World Wide Web in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Warsaw, Poland
… ethnographic fieldwork at two urban schools in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Warsaw, Poland. It proposes a socio-cognitive framework for an analysis of attention as a nexus comprised of ideological, bureaucratic, somatic, and affective elements as well as a form of practice that acts upon the world. …
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Effects of access to information on farmer's market channel choice: The Case of Potato in Tiraque Sub-watershed (Cochabamba - Bolivia)
In Bolivia, potato production and marketing is important for farmers' livelihoods and anecdotal information shows that cell phones and women are extremely important in the potato marketing chain. Efforts to improve incomes of poor highland potato producers should recognize roles of different actors …
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Staple Crop Diversity and Risk Mitigation - Potatoes in Bolivia
… slower than more advantaged areas elsewhere. Cochabamba Department, in central Bolivia, is home to some of these LFAs. Most Cochabamban producers are located in the "high climatic risk" (CIP-WPA) Andean highlands. Farmers in LFAs surrounding Cochabamba city produce (among other things) …
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Por las propias manos/In our own hands: Resistance and representation on the margins of urban Bolivia
… self-identifying community on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia and the larger systems of institutional power and authority to which that community is subordinated. It examines the practices of representation that are ongoing in the barrio of Villa Sebastian Pagador, the ways in which …
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Gender issues, indigenous peoples and popular partication in Bolivia
… phases. Phase I was undertaken in La Paz and Cochabamba between December 1995 and February 1996 by myself, Professor David Booth, then working at the University of Hull, and Charlotta Widmark representing the University of Stockholm. Phase II was conducted between May and September 1996 and …
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Gender at the Margins: Contradictions of Masculinity and Femininity in a Bolivian Barrio Marginal
… and women in two working-class neighborhoods of Cochabamba, Bolivia. I find that understandings of masculinity and femininity consist of multiple, often contradictory, models. The fundamental contradiction of masculinity lies in the competing models of ""the macho"" (who in this ethnographic …
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Green Expectations: Politics of the Environment in Pink Tide Bolivia
… fieldwork carried out between 2014 and 2020 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, during which I immersed myself in environmentalist networks at multiple core sites. The study I present is a multi-perspectival investigation of meaning making around environmental issues at a core inflection point in Bolivian …
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Functioning Industrial Symbiosis Model Application to Organic Waste: A Case Study of a Paper Mill Company in Cochambamba, Bolivia
… a model specific to a paper mill company in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Copelme S.A., to investigate if its waste streams can be converted into a value stream and if its organic sludge waste can be transformed into energy. The model included an analysis of the application of an Up-Flow Anaerobic …
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New Bolivians, New Bolivia: Pentecostal Conversion and Neoliberal Transformation in Contemporary Bolivia
"Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Cochabamba, Bolivia, this dissertation analyzes discourses of transformation among Pentecostal Christians within the context of recent neoliberal social and economic reforms that have drastically altered Bolivian society. These reforms have caused immense …
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Viimeinen pisara : Tie Cochabamban vesihuollon yksityistämisestä väkivaltaiseen konfliktiin
Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan Bolivian Cochabamban kunnallisen vesihuoltoyhtiön yksityistämisestä seurannutta väkivaltaista konfliktia vuosina 1999-2000. Tarkoituksena on selvittää ennen kaikkea konfliktiin ja sen väkivaltaistumiseen johtanut mutta myös siitä laajemmin seurannut yhteiskunnallinen …
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Claiming Space, Redefining Politics: Urban Protest and Grassroots Power in Bolivia
… of meaning-laden spaces in cities like Cochabamba and Sucre. Social movements used spatial meanings, protest symbols and rhetoric to build an imagined community of interest and sovereignty, which claims the right to direct the political course of the state. The presence of indigenous …
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Marketing indigeneity: identity negotiations of two generations of informal vending women in neoliberal Bolivia
… as savvy businesswomen and traders. In fact, Cochabamba’s cholas have consciously fed this dual identity through the centuries, thus blurring the boundaries between indigeneity and entrepreneurship. In the dissertation, I argue that cholas position themselves outside the social continuum that …