Publications

• Bolivia in the Age of Gas (Duke 2020).
• New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia (Duke 2009)
• Ya disponible en La Paz (Plural Editores): Nuevas Lenguas del Estado: El Pueblo Guaraní y la Educación Indígena en Bolivia (con Plural Editores).

• Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory, and Indigeneity in a Plurinational State (with Nicole Fabricant, SAR Press, 2011)
• Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America (with Mabel Moraña, Iberoamericana/Vervuert 2010)

Extractivism, Energy, and Bolivian Politics 

2021

• “Bolivia’s Double Pandemic: A Coup and COVID-19.” Current History 120(823):50-56.

• “Continuity and Change in Bolivian Land Politics and Policy, 2005-2020.” In Continuity and Change in Bolivia, edited by Soledad Rivera.  Routledge.
• “Bolivia’s Gas Boom and the Guarani: Remediation and Erasure.” In Remediating Cartographies of Erasure, edited by Bernard Perley.  U. Nebraska Press, in press.

2020

• “Bolivia’s Amazon: Power and Politics Stoking the Flames.” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (April 2020). https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/bolivia%E2%80%99s-amazon
• “The End of Gas and What’s Next for Eastern Bolivia.” Duke University Press Blog, November. https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/what-is-the-future-of-bolivia-after-the-2020-mas-victory/    
• “Bolivia’s 2020 Election: Winning is Only the Beginning for Luis Arce and the MAS.”  London School of Economics Latin America and Caribbean Blog.  October 21. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2020/10/20/bolivias-2020-election-winning-is-only-the-beginning-for-luis-arce-and-the-mas/.
• “La política del gas natural y los límites de la autonomía guaraní en Bolivia: Reflexiones sobre la época de Evo Morales.” Etnografías Contemporáneas 6(11):114-132.
• “The Political Economy of Gas, Soy, and Lithium in Morales’s Bolivia.” Bolivian Studies Journal 25:45-59. (with N. Fabricant)
• “The Fall of Evo Morales.” Catalyst 4(1):105-131. (with N. Fabricant)

2018

• “Extractivism: A Review Essay.” Latin American Perspectives 45(3):222-228.

2017

• The New Energy Imperialism in the Caribbean. NACLA Report on the Americas 49(4):421-428.

2016

• With Natalia Guzmán Solano. Mining Movements and Political Horizons in the Andes: Articulation, Democratization, and Worlds Otherwise. In Mining in Latin America: Critical Approaches to the “New Extraction”. Kalowatie Deonandan and Michael Dougherty, eds. New York: Routledge. In press.

2015

• Moving Beyond the Extractivism Debate: Imagining New Social Economies. with Nicole Fabricant. NACLA Report on the Americas. Mapping the Moment

2013

• “Amid Gas, Where is the Revolution?” NACLA Report on the Americas. Issue on Climate Debt. 46(1): 61-66.

2012

• Fossil Knowledge Networks: Industry Strategy, Public Culture, and the Challenge for Critical Research (PDF). In Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas. Edited by J.A. McNeish and O. Logan. London: Pluto.

2011

• Bolivian Resource Politics. Revista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Fall 2011.

2010

• Autonomía e articulação: o gás natural e as transformações das regiões e do poder na Bolívia e Brasil. In Izabella Missagio, ed. Regiões e Poder na América Latina. UFG: Goiania Brasil.
• When States Act Like Movements: Dismantling Local Power and ‘Seating’ Sovereignty in Bolivia. Latin American Perspectives 37(4).
• La soberanía en los tiempos del gas: territorialidades y tácticas en el sureste boliviano. Umbrales (La Paz)2009. Manipulating Cartographies: Plurinationalism, Autonomy, and Gas in Bolivia. Anthropological Quarterly 82(4):985-1016.

2009

• “Bolivia 9/11: Bodies and Power on a Feudal Frontier.” Caterwaul Quarterly Spring-Summer 2009. (PDF)

2008

• “Reading Bolivia in the US Press.” NACLA Report on the Americas 41(4):49-52.
• “By Means Legal and Otherwise: The Bolivian Right Regroups.” NACLA Report on the Americas 41(1): 20-25.
• Flashpoints of Sovereignty: Natural Gas and Territorial Conflict in Bolivia. In Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil. Andrea Behrends, Stephen Reyna, and Gunther Schlee, eds. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Guarani Language and History

2021

• “Was the Chiriguano a Colonial Fabrication? Linguistic Evidence for Rethinking Guaraní and Chane Histories in the Chaco.” In Reimagining the Gran Chaco: Contemporary Perspectives on Identities, Politics, and the Environment in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Edited by M. Biocca, S. Hirsch, and P. Canova. U. Florida, in press.

2018

• Oppressed No More? Indigenous Language Regimentation in Plurinational Bolivia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.

2016

• (W. F. Jullqa and A. Jiménez) “The Politics and Policy of Language Revitalization in Latin America and the Caribbean.” In Teresa McCarty and Serafin Coronel-Molina, eds. Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas. New York: Routledge.

2015

• Guarani. In Las Lenguas de Bolivia. Tomo III: Oriente.  Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken, eds. La Paz: Plural Editores. Pp. 307-369.

2014

• “Intercultural Bilingual Education in the Andes: Political Change, New Challenges, and Future Directions.” In Regina Cortina, ed. The Education of Indigenous Citizens in Latin America. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

2008

• La educación y el resurgimiento indígena en Bolivia: desafíos al proyecto de descolonización. In Mabel Moraña, ed. Cultura y Cambio Social: Proceedings of the South by Midwest I. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoaméricana/Vervuert.

2006

• Spectacles of Autonomy and Crisis, Or, What Bulls and Beauty Queens Have to do With Regionalism in Eastern Bolivia Journal of Latin American Anthropology 11(2):351-379.
• También disponible en español. Published in Spanish as: Gustafson, B. 2008. “Espectáculos de Autonomia y Crisis: O, lo que los toros y las reinas tienen que ver con el regionalismo en Bolivia” Revista Willka 2(2), Special issue on Racismo y Elites Criollos en Bolivia. Revista Semestral, University of El Alto, Bolivia.

2004

• El concepto de “red” y los conocimientos indígenas en la EIB. Qinasay: Revista de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe (Cochabamba, Bolivia). 2(1):7-22.

2002

• “The Paradoxes of Liberal Indigenism: Indigenous Movements, State Processes, and Intercultural Reformism in Bolivia.” In The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States. Edited by David Maybury-Lewis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pp. 267-306.

2000

• “Guarani.” In Diccionario Histórico de Bolivia. Josep M. Barnadas, ed. Sucre (Bolivia): Grupo de Estudios Históricos.
• Quechua. Quichua. Aymara. Diablada. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. Daniel Balderston, et al. eds. New York: Routledge.

1997

• “Guarani Education Politics and Multicultural State-Making in Bolivia.” Cultural Survival Quarterly 22(1):20-21.

• Galdames, V., A.Walqui, and B. Gustafson. 2005. La Enseñanza de Lenguas Indígenas en la Educación Bilingüe. La Paz: PROEIB Andes/INWENT. (Published in French, 2004. L’école Vivant: Enseigner la langue maternelle dans un programme d’éducation bilingüe. Daouda, Senegal: INWENT.) (143pp).
• Robles, T., B. Gustafson and F. Rojas. 2002. Necesidades Básicas de Aprendizaje: Area Guarani. La Paz (Bolivia): Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes. [Basic Educational Needs: Guarani Area]. (122 pp.)
• Gustafson, B., L. Gutiérrez, and S. Manuel. 1998. Ñeereñii. La Paz: UNICEF. [The Flowering Word, a social history written in the Guarani language]. (132 pp.)
• Gustafson, B. 1996. Ñee: introducción al estudio lingüístico del idioma guaraní, para guaraní hablantes. La Paz: APG/UNICEF/TEKO-Guaraní. [Language: An Introduction to the Linguistic Study of the Guarani Language, for Guarani Speakers]. (170 pp.)
• Gustafson, B. 1996. Guía para el estudio de nuestras lenguas y nuestras culturas. La Paz: UNICEF. (123 pp.)