The social march and the irruption of the indigenous dody in Bolivia during the neoliberal era

Abstract

This article reflects upon the importance of the irruption of the indigenous body into the Bo-livian national imaginary in the neoliberal era. It is an irruption that breaks the rigid way in which the nation had been conceived since the National Revolution in 1952, and that opens up real possibilities of social inclusion to subjects not taken into account in the national con-figuration as valid political agents. One of the most effective practices of resistance and con-sequently social irruption is the social march. The current article reflects upon such practice and the importance of the indigenous body for its success. I argue that the social march is fundamental for the constitution and reformulation of subjects in the last twenty five years in Bolivia, and consequently their decolonization. It is a way to seek social validation through an intense use of the body.

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