{"id":551,"date":"2020-10-08T08:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T07:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/coca-cocaine-bolivia-peru\/?p=551"},"modified":"2020-10-08T08:15:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T07:15:04","slug":"bolivia-on-the-brink-natural-resources-the-war-on-drugs-and-the-future-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/coca-cocaine-bolivia-peru\/bolivia-on-the-brink-natural-resources-the-war-on-drugs-and-the-future-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia On the Brink: Natural Resources, the War on Drugs, and the Future of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team member Kathryn Ledebur joins Bret Gustafson and Les Robinson to discuss the future of Bolivian Democracy in a webinar organised by the Watson Institute at Brown University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">Tuesday, October 13, 2020.\u00a01 p.m. \u2013 2:30 p.m (US Eastern Time). <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/brown.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_f3JOyZANS42qGNttkx9mDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Register here<\/a> to join the webinar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bret Gustafson<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Gustafson\u2019s work focuses on the anthropology of politics and the political, with a particular interest in Latin American social movements, state transformation, and the politics of development. His research has engaged Indigenous movements in both Bolivia and Guatemala. He is the author of,\u00a0<em>Bolivia in the Age of Gas<\/em>,\u00a0recently published by Duke University Press (September, 2020). In this new book, Gustafson explores how the struggle over natural gas has reshaped Bolivia, along with the rise, and ultimate fall, of the country\u2019s first Indigenous-led government. Though grounded in the unique complexities of Bolivia, the volume argues that fossil-fuel political economies worldwide are central to the reproduction of militarism and racial capitalism. His first book, <em>New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia<\/em> (2009) was also published by Duke University Press. He is the co-editor of, <em>Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory and Indigeneity in a Plurinational State<\/em> (SAR Press, 2011), and <em>Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America<\/em> (Vervuert, 2010). He has published in Latin American Perspectives, Anthropological Quarterly, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology among other peer review scholarly journals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathryn Ledebur<\/strong> is the director of Cochabamba-based policy think-tank, the Andean Information Network (AIN), and a visiting fellow at the University of Reading, UK. She is an expert on international drug policy, human rights, alternative coca and drug control strategies. Ledebur has written extensively for the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), and published in Stability: International Journal of Security &amp; Development. AIN provides information and analysis to NGO colleagues, the media, and international policymakers on developments in Bolivia and the impact of U.S. government and European policies. Working closely with civil society organizations in Latin America and in the United States, AIN promotes policy dialogue and the development of pragmatic alternatives that address the underlying economic, social, political and cultural needs of Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/academics\/history\/leslie-william-robinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Les Robinson<\/strong><\/a> is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, and Co-President of Brown War Watch.<\/p>\n<p>See more &amp; Register: <a href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/events\/2020\/bolivia-brink-natural-resources-war-drugs-and-future-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/events\/2020\/bolivia-brink-natural-resources-war-drugs-and-future-democracy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team member Kathryn Ledebur joins Bret Gustafson and Les Robinson to discuss the future of Bolivian Democracy in a webinar organised by the Watson Institute at Brown University. 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