by Luis Tapia
Translated by Nate Freiburger

Paperback | 104 pp. | 4.5 x 7 in | August 2020
ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-9951551-8-3

Wild Politics is the first in a series that challenges North to South knowledge flows. In this exciting new translation we share the work of Luis Tapia, a Bolivian philosopher and militant intellectual, who presents a systematic challenge to the modernist, Western anthropological assumptions used to justify the imposition of neoliberal political and economic models and policies in Bolivia. The book is a critique, rooted in the historical and current context of Bolivia, of neoliberal reason and liberal political models that masquerade as “democracy,” “modernization,” and “development.” It forcefully illustrates the anti-democratic and authoritarian character of neoliberal reason, as well as demonstrating the centrality of the state to both liberal politics and its current manifestation in neoliberal order. The book provides a concise history of rebellion in Bolivia, but it is not orthodox historiography: there is no single mention of a “great historical figure” in Bolivian history, as the history is told from the perspective of the collective subjects of rebellion.