A Revolution in Fragments: Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia.

• Author: Sierra, Luis M.

Goodale, Mark. A Revolution in Fragments: Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

Evo Morales, Bolivia's first self-identifying indigenous president, brought forth what has been described as a process of change, a revolution--or less generously as the continuation of neoliberalism with a veneer of nationalism and autonomy--for Bolivia's indigenous nations. Mark Goodale's A Revolution in Fragments: Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia assesses that process from varied sources and perspectives. It is an ethnography and--this reviewer would argue--a history of the present in Bolivia from 2006-2015. A Revolution in Fragments analyzes the meaning and role of law and ideology in the development of the pluri-national Bolivian state. Goodale explores how the law is integral to making identities real, how the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) oversaw the process of change, and how it dealt with challenges to its rule and its vision of the nation and state. A turning point for the analysis is the 2008...