Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui visits Umass

The presentation will start with a brief account of popular struggles and mobilizations in modern Bolivia (1952-2005) and draw on concept of “micropolitics” to interpret the ways in which popular organizations express long term grievances, in a cyclical but continuous process of self/creation, and retain their long and short-term memories. The talk will also focus on the mutual and paradoxical relations between micropolitics and memory as well as micropolitics and politics.