Trials of Nation Making
April 12, 2013
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1748339.Trials_of_Nation_Making Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910 by Brooke Larson …
Brooke Larson
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research interests in Latin America revolve around the historic struggles of Andean indigenous peoples for land, community, identity, and rights under Spanish colonial rule and the postcolonial republics. More recently, I have concentrated on the resurgence of modern ethnic movements under the modernizing Bolivian state in the early 20th century. I am currently researching a book-length manuscript, tentatively entitled: Aymara Indians and the Lettered City. Struggles over power, knowledge, and identity in the Bolivian Andes. This book probes the ideological battles, cultural politics, and grassroots social practices of rural Indian school reform and popular literacy in the Andean countryside. On a larger plane, it uses the case of Aymara cultural struggles to raise larger postcolonial dilemmas of pluriethnic nation making in the context of stark racial, ethnic, and class inequality. As a teacher, my interests are broad and interdisciplinary. They range from topics on colonialism and comparative frontiers to the problems of race and nation making in the 19th and 20th centuries. SCHOLARLY WORKS: Trials of Nation Making. Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. (An earlier, Spanish-language version the above book was published as, Indígenas, élites, y estado en la formación de las repúblicas andinas, 1850-1910. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Andinos/Universidad Católica del Perú, 2002).
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