Place and the Politics of Knowledge in Rural Bolivia: a Postcoloniality of Development, Ecology, and Well-Being
PLACE AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE IN RURAL BOLIVIA: A POSTCOLONIALITY OF DEVELOPMENT, ECOLOGY, AND WELL-BEING A Dissertation Presented by KAREN MARIE LENNON Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2012 School of Education Educational Policy, Research, and Administration © Copyright by Karen Marie Lennon 2012 All Rights Reserved PLACE AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE IN RURAL BOLIVIA: A POSTCOLONIALITY OF DEVELOPMENT, ECOLOGY, AND WELL-BEING A Dissertation Presented By KAREN MARIE LENNON Approved as to style and content by: _________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kamat, Chair ________________________________________________ Ann Ferguson, Member ________________________________________________ Elena T. Carbone, Member ________________________________________________ Laura A. Valdiviezo, Member ________________________________________ Christine McCormick Dean of the School of Education ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The contributions to this dissertation began long before my actual fieldwork, and involve many people from diverse backgrounds and different continents. At the forefront of it all are my two closest allies and compañeros , my husband, Brian B. Johnson, and our son, Natán. They have given me immeasurable support, collaboration, intellectual stimulation, and comfort. Conducting fieldwork with them opened up so many doors, personally as well as to the homes and places of others. Natán shared with me his youthful lucidity, observations, interpretations and thoughts. As always, he provided a passage to more freely enter the world of children, and of play: in the classrooms, on the streets, in the fields, and alongside the river banks. Brian and I both did our respective fieldwork in the municipality of Rumi Mayu, Bolivia; our focus was different, but our themes crossed over— indigenous issues, politics, and health.
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