Dignity and Defiance Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization

How can people in Bolivia improve their lives if they do not control resources around them? How should they relate to the force of capital and of far away international financial institutions? The book presents experiences and voices of Bolivians:
the voices of people left without water, the voices of workers, women and indigenous peoples.

It portrays the impact of water, oil and gas companies, considers economic change and the role of the IMF, looks at the lives of people in town and country, and explores the causes of emigration. It provokes questions about the role of multinational capital and whose interests it serves?

Contents: Introduction; The Cochabamba Water Revolt and its Aftermath, Jim Shultz; A River Turns Black: Enron and Shell Spread Destruction across Bolivia's Highlands, Christina Haglund; Oil and Gas: The Illusive Wealth Beneath Their Feet, Gretchen Gordon and Aaron Luoma; Lessons in Blood and Fire: The Deadly Consequences of IMF Economics, Jim Shultz; Economic Strings: The Politics of Foreign Debt, Nick Buxton; Coca: The Leaf at the Centre of the War on Drugs, Caroline S. Conzelman, Coletta A. Youngers, Jim Shultz, Caitlin Esch, Leny Olivera, Linda Farthing; Workers, Leaders, and Mothers: Bolivian Women in a Globalizing World, Melissa Crane Draper; And those who Left: Portraits of a Bolivian Exodus, Lily Whitesell; Conclusion; Index.