*London Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series, Autumn Term 2016*
*Thursday 1 December* – *Miranda Shield Johansson, UCL*
*Taxing the Indigenous: A History of Barriers to Fiscal Inclusion in the
Bolivian Highlands*
Following the electoral success of left wing and pro-indigenous President
Evo Morales, the indigenous poor in Bolivia find themselves at the centre
of a new vision of the state, echoed by a fervent citizenship project to
include them as contributing participants in this new Bolivia. The state is
working to initiate these hitherto informally employed subjects into an
individualised fiscal regime: to make them into “taxpayers.” While the
highland indigenous population is firmly loyal to Morales, they resist the
inclusion into a state sponsored project. This is not simply about avoiding
financial obligations but their resistance is instead firmly rooted in the
historical experience of fiscal exploitation, as well as suspicion of state
sponsored projects. I argue that in order to overcome these barriers the
state has to succeed in separating fiscal expansion from association with
the state and instead link it to Morales and his project of indigenous
inclusion.
The seminar will take place *at 17:30 at the Senate House* (Room 234, South
Block, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).
This seminar series is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American
Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths and UCL.
For more information about the seminar, you can visit our blog:
http://anthropologyseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk
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*Dr Ainhoa Montoya*Lecturer in Latin American Studies
ESRC Future Research Leader
Institute of Latin American Studies
School of Advanced Study – University of London
https://sas.academia.edu/AinhoaMontoya
<https://ulondon.academia.edu/AinhoaMontoya>
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