Conceptualizing the Bolivian Modern Experience: Liberalism as Pattern of Intention. A Review of Mark Goodale's <em>Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism</em> (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2009)
Keywords
neo-liberalism, dilemma, modernity
Keywords
neo-liberalism, dilemma, modernity
Abstract
In Dilemmas of Modernity, Mark Goodale offers a historically detailed and theoretically rich treatment of the impact of human rights discourses on daily life and legal practices in a rural Bolivian province. The centerpiece of Goodale’s argument is that liberalism, in both its local vernacular forms and as a broader dialectic struggle, has been the organizing principle of virtually every significant social or legal reform in the history of the Bolivian republic.
Published
2010-04-01
Section
Reviews: Racism in the Andean Region and Mesoamerica