Owning modernity: Indigenous architecture, fashion, and the aesthetics of modernity in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia
Urban Studies: An International Journal of Research in Urban Studies
Published online on June 24, 2026
Abstract
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This article explores how popular markets and cultural aesthetics challenge colonial binaries of tradition versus modernity, focusing on La Paz and El Alto during a period of Indigenous political power and economic expansion (2006–2019). Drawing on ...
This article explores how popular markets and cultural aesthetics challenge colonial binaries of tradition versus modernity, focusing on La Paz and El Alto during a period of Indigenous political power and economic expansion (2006–2019). Drawing on ...