Manipulating cartographies: Plurinationalism, autonomy, and indigenous resurgence in Bolivia

Latin American indigenous movements increasingly speak of "plurinationalism" in demands for state transformation. The concept-as yet solidified in legal or territorial orders-exists in tension with disputed meanings of "autonomy, " raising questions about indigenous territorial rights, citizenship, and natural resources. Bolivia's new constitution elevates both concepts to official status in the context of struggles over natural gas. Following David Maybury-Lewis's call for rethinking the state, I consider how Bolivians are rethinking historicities of space to transform cartographies of a "plurinational state." Though raising fears of ethnic partitioning, the Guaraní case suggests that hybrid plural and indigenous territorialities are emergent.