Journal Article
| 2006
Stones on the Road: The Politics of Participation and the Generation of Crisis in Bolivia
This paper demonstrates that recent protests in Bolivia must be linked to
the failure of efforts to improve democratic participation in the country.
It argues that such failures can be traced to a history of prejudices in
national development and society and persistent biases and contradictions
within international development policy and institutions. Despite
these obstacles, the paper concludes that ideas for appropriate development
and realistic alternatives for change to government and democracy
are visible in recent critical development thinking and amongst the
different social and cultural groupings involved in the demonstrations.