... Cochabamba was founded as a market town. The chapter describes the history of the city’s growth, highlighting the emergence of the Cancha as the principal locus of commercial activity in the city. urbanization markets urban planning ...

... The valley of Cochabamba was perhaps the richest agricultural region in the highland Andes before the Spanish conquest. One of the most revealing sources for understanding Inka systems of territorial control and demographic relocation comes from a legal dispute in 1556 between the caciques...

... was directed primarily to Argentina and, by the 1980s, mainly to the capital city Buenos Aires. The United States also received a growing immigrant influx in the 1970s and 1980s, especially from rural Cochabamba and urban Santa Cruz. Brazil, and São Paulo in particular, began to attract immigrants in the 1980s...

... fieldwork markets Cochabamba ...

... A detailed description of the layout and organization of the market introduces the reader to the ethnographic field site. fieldwork markets Cochabamba ...

... In early 2000, a broad cross-section of civil society in Cochabamba rose up to protest the privatization of water and corresponding rate hikes for water service. The Coalition for Defense of Water and Life brought together rural and urban sectors into a common force, including members...

... was elected secretary-general of the organization to resolve the conflict. In early 2000, the Water War in Cochabamba and massive community mobilizations on the altiplano led by Quispe and the csutcb initiated a five-year cycle of rebellion that brought an end to the era of neoliberal hegemony. Quispe...

... Many accounts of the Spanish invasion of the Americas suggest that the contest between “conquerors” and “conquered” was decided quickly due to the natural superiority of Spanish arms or ingenuity. The chronicler Pedro Cieza de León, for example, described the conquest in the valley of Cochabamba...

... includes specific examples of lowland frontier colonization taken from the territory of Qollasuyu. The valley of Cochabamba was perhaps the richest agricultural region in the highland Andes before the Spanish conquest. One of the most revealing sources for understanding Inka systems of territorial...

... Oscar Olivera (1955–) was a representative of the trade-union federation of factory workers in Cochabamba when the outbreak of the Water War in 2000 catapulted him into the leadership of the grassroots Coalition for the Defense of Water and Life. In the cycle of insurgencies from 2000 to 2005...

...” and “relocation,” but the massive layoffs from the mines in the late 1980s had very human effects. The adversity faced by mineworkers included concrete challenges such as the effectively forced migration of families to La Paz or Cochabamba and the diffculties in finding new work in times of economic contraction...

... Cochabamba has no official memory, but it has a computerized system in which all legal vendors are inscribed, and from which others are excluded. archive legibility policing exclusion social control ...

... A fire in Cochabamba’s Cancha marketplace reveals the deep interconnections between formality and informality, and legality and illegality, that characterize political and economic life in the contemporary city. informal economy the state law urban studies ...