Paper short abstract:

This paper considers those on the fringes of national development frameworks in Bolivia, who contest the forms of socially and environmentally sustainable development being promoted by the government.

Paper long abstract:

This paper considers those on the fringes of national development frameworks in Bolivia, who contest the forms of socially and environmentally sustainable development being promoted by the government. It examines government treatment of oppositional social movements, using theories of contentious politics, the political and development, firstly to analyse the changing role for social movements within the formation of development policy and practice. Secondly, it will question what changing relationships between social movements and the government means for Vivir bien. The paper will use fieldwork data from a recent conflict over road building in the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park, TIPNIS.