Rhythms of the Pachakuti

<div>In the indigenous Andean language of Aymara <i>pachakuti</i> refers to the subversion and transformation of social relations. Between 2000 and 2005 Bolivia was radically transformed by a series of popular indigenous uprisings against the country's neoliberal and antidemocratic policies. In <i>Rhythms of the Pachakuti</i> Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar documents these mass collective actions tracing the internal dynamics of such disruptions to consider how motivation and execution incite political change.<br><br>In <i>Rhythms of the Pachakuti</i> we can sense the reverberations of an extraordinary historical process that took place in Bolivia at the start of the twenty-first century. The book is the product of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar's political engagement in that historical process. . . . Though of Mexican nationality [she] was intimately involved in Bolivian politics for many years and acquired a quasi-legendary status there as an intense brilliant activist and radical intellectual. . . . [Her account is] . . . itself a revolutionary document. . . . <i>Rhythms of the Pachakuti</i> deserves to stand as a key text in the international literature of radicalism and emancipatory politics in the new century.-Sinclair Thomson from the foreword<br></div>