The "Guardians of the Earth": Indigenous Bolivia and Global Activism Concerning Climate Change in the Twenty First Century

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2011-06

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The Ohio State University

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This article discusses the indigenous perspectives on ecology, Mother Earth and environmental activism in Bolivia. By analyzing eco-socialism and Andean cosmology this thesis seeks to explain how and why Bolivia's environmental proposals on the international level are intended to end the current economic model of global capitalism.

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Bolivia, Indigenous, Climate Change, Cosmology, Eco-socialism, neo-liberalism, Mother Earth

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