An Intersectional Approach to Environmental Political Theory: A Case Study on Modern Andean Bolivian Indigenous Forms of Resistance and Communal Democracy in Relation to Water Rights

• Main Author: Seward, Julia E
• Format: Others
• Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2014
• Subjects: bolivia; intersectionality; environment; political theory; Comparative Politics; International Relations; Political Theory
• Online Access: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/509; http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1527&context=scripps_theses

Considers Bolivian Andean indigenous forms of democracy and resistance to neoliberal water privatization in Cochabamba. Incorporates environmental identity into the intersectional theoretical framework with principles rooted in Indigenous grass roots theory, Marxist critiques on capitalism, Latin American Neomarxist scholars, and Environmental Justice. Focuses on intersections of ethnicity, gender and class identities with environmental identity to understand the extent to which environmental injustices cannot be addressed in isolation from other sources of inequality.