This work discusses keys concepts for the understanding of an Aymara epistemology as part of a decolonization process that equally affects the culture, politics, economy and the history of Bolivia. The frame in which the discussion of these matters is…

On 18th December 2012, Evo Morales celebrated his seventh anniversary as president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. In 2005, this Aymara coca growers’ union leader was elected for the first time, with the support of social movements and, in…

This brief reflection on the work of Mario Conde starts paying attention to the special relationship the artist has with the watercolor technique, deploying from that relationship a copy-based ethics. From that materiality Conde builds his response to the postmodern…

Referring to a time of a reconfiguration of one’s own horizon, this paper aims to show in methodological terms the limitations of modern politics in understanding indigenous knowledge and theorizations that bring into the language of politics the notion of…

This article explores the legacy of Jorge Sanjinés’ cinema in current Latin American cinematography, specifically in Bolivia. The central idea argues that despite the favourable political situation Bolivia is at the present experiencing, with the arrival of Evo Morales to…

Two were the main concerns in Latin America during the first half of the twentieth century: the consolidation of the nation-State and the incipient development of capitalism. In the Andes the “Indian problem” added complexity to these concerns. This article…

The urban chronicle is probably one of the least cultivated genres in Bolivia, not because the country lacks a repertoire of urban stories, but rather that those stories are neither produced nor consumed as a literary "genre". They are, instead,…

This article presents and discusses the deep contradictions and paradoxes that indigenous social movements face in their struggles to reverse the republican colonial order in Bolivia and to share the exercise of political power with the two hundred year old…

The aim of this article is to provide an interpretation of key issues in Martha Cajías’ work, such as the multifaceted dialectics of fertility and maternity, life and death, memory and dreams, ethics of the ancestors, collective myths and family…

In 2003 Martha Cajías worked on a series of drawings entitled Flor de papa. This article focuses on one of these drawings (Flor de Papa 2) and from it, offers an interpretation of the “textile poetics” that gives shape and…