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By Maria Tapias

ISBN-10: 0252039173

ISBN-13: 9780252039171

ISBN-10: 0252080742

ISBN-13: 9780252080746

Embodied Protests examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested within the visceral and emotional ailments that stricken many Bolivian ladies. Drawing on case reports carried out between marketplace- and working-class girls within the provincial city of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how complications and debilidad, so-called common bouts of baby diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing complete groups have been symptomatic of profound social anguish. She ways the narratives of misery brought on by poverty, family violence, and the failure of social networks as constituting the data that formed their understandings of future health. on the crux of Tapias's definitive research is the concept person well-being perceptions, activities, and practices can't be separated from neighborhood cultural narratives or from international and financial forces.

 

Evocative and compassionate, Embodied Protests offers voice to the human expenses of the continued neoliberal experiment.

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