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or broader temporal and epistemic horizon. Here I want to consider the elements of history and structure in a particular series of moments in the thought of René Zavaleta. Zavaleta focused his thought on the history of Bolivia, but as part of the history of Latin America and the world in modernity
that demonstrate the insufficiency of a scholarly ethos of fidelity. In this article I examine García Linera’s concept of the integral/plurinational state as a misappropriation of Gramsci’s thought and of that of Bolivian sociologist René Zavaleta Mercado. I am, like Bosteels, more interested in the
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In this passage, Zavaleta describes the connections between the moment of real subsumption, social totalisation, the production of social-scientific knowledge that takes the resultant totality as its object, including Marxist theory, and finally, the emergence of a broad intersubjectivity with the capacity to become a revolutionary historical actor.
Three and a half decades since his early death, the brilliance of René Zavaleta’s political theory and historical sociology is finally beginning to be properly registered in Latin American countries outside of his Bolivian homeland, where his intellectual stature has long been monumental. The
Sooner or later, each society learns that to know itself is almost to overcome. René Zavaleta Mercado ∵ On 23 December 1984, at the age of 47, Bolivia’s greatest political theorist René Zavaleta Mercado died of brain cancer in Mexico City. His wife had rushed him from La Paz back to
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Tail autotomy is a common phenomenon in lizards that increases the chances of immediate survival during a predation event or agonistic encounter. However, despite short-term benefits, tail regeneration may also impose costs. Several studies have demonstrated that tail loss compromises other vital functions such as lipid storage, reproduction, and the immune system. Several lizard species are hosts of mites and ticks. Here we evaluated in three lizard species from the genus Sceloporus, whether individuals that have lost their tails and invested energy in tail regeneration are more susceptible to ectoparasites. Using a multimodel inference framework, we examined if tail loss and regeneration, as well as sex, body condition, and season (dry or rainy) predict ectoparasite load. Our results indicate that investing energy and resources in tail regeneration compromises defence against ectoparasites. These costs differed between sexes and among species. Overall, ectoparasite load increases during the rainy season and is on average higher in males. In S. grammicus, during the rainy season, males with regenerated tails and in poor body condition had more ectoparasites than males with intact tails in good body condition. In S. megalepidurus, we observed the same effect during the rainy season but in females rather than males. In S. torquatus, we found no effect of tail loss on ectoparasite load. We discuss the possibility that differences observed among species reflect differences in both species-specific physiological trade-offs and local environmental conditions.
Collective Action and Indigenous, Working-Class and Popular Identities in Bolivia
In addition to his role as Evo Morales’s vice-president, Álvaro García Linera is one of Bolivia’s foremost intellectuals. With a theoretical trajectory beginning in efforts to combine Marxism and Indianism, then developed in reaction to the neoliberal turn of the 1980s and in contact with the mass social movements of recent years, García Linera's Plebeian Power can be read as both an evolving analysis of Bolivian reality through periods of great social change, and as an intellectual biography of the author himself. Informed by such thinkers as Marx, Bourdieu and René Zavaleta, García Linera reflects on the nature of the state, class and indigenous identity and their relevance to social struggles in Bolivia.
English translation of La potencia plebeya: Acción colectiva e identidades indígenas, obreras y populares en Bolivia published by Siglo del Hombre Editores and CLASCO in 2007.
English translation of La potencia plebeya: Acción colectiva e identidades indígenas, obreras y populares en Bolivia published by Siglo del Hombre Editores and CLASCO in 2007.
Collective Action and Indigenous, Working-Class and Popular Identities in Bolivia
In addition to his role as Evo Morales’s vice-president, Álvaro García Linera is one of Bolivia’s foremost intellectuals. With a theoretical trajectory beginning in efforts to combine Marxism and Indianism, then developed in reaction to the neoliberal turn of the 1980s and in contact with the mass social movements of recent years, García Linera's Plebeian Power can be read as both an evolving analysis of Bolivian reality through periods of great social change, and as an intellectual biography of the author himself. Informed by such thinkers as Marx, Bourdieu and René Zavaleta, García Linera reflects on the nature of the state, class and indigenous identity and their relevance to social struggles in Bolivia.
English translation of La potencia plebeya: Acción colectiva e identidades indígenas, obreras y populares en Bolivia published by Siglo del Hombre Editores and CLASCO in 2007.
English translation of La potencia plebeya: Acción colectiva e identidades indígenas, obreras y populares en Bolivia published by Siglo del Hombre Editores and CLASCO in 2007.
. Regulated chlorophyll degradation in Spinach leaves during storage. J. Am. Soc. Hortic. Sci.116: 58-62. Zavaleta-Mancera, H.A., Thomas, B.J., Thomas, H., Scott, I.M. 1999a. Regreening of senescent Nicotiana leaves II. Redifferentiation of plastids. J. Exp. Bot.50: 1683-1689. Zavaleta
). [ Neil.Davidson@glasgow.ac.uk ] Anne Freeland teaches at the City University of New York. She is the translator of René Zavaleta Mercado’s Towards a History of the National-Popular in Bolivia (Seagull Books, 2018), and her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Latin
effective against nematode s and, when grown as an intercrop, may also generate extra cash as flowers which can be sold for pigment, or cut for sale as ornamentals (Castro et aI., 1990; Gomez-Rodriguez & Zavaleta-Mejia, 200 I). The campesinos have noticed that cabbage and lettuce do not develop 'jicarnilla