Subaltern Geographies in the Plurinational State of Bolivia: The TIPNIS Conflict

Following this speech by the Mojeño leader, around eight hundred indigenous peoples departed from Trinidad in the Amazonian region of Bolivia on the Eighth Indigenous March named “for the Defence of the tipnis, for Life, for Dignity and for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”¹ The marchers were resisting the government’s plans to build a road through the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory (tipnis; Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure), which carries the dual status of a national park and legally recognized territory communally titled to the Mojeño-Trinitario, Yuracaré, and Chimane peoples. Significantly, this infrastructure would open up