Rural Chiapas Ten Years After The Zapatista Uprising

Author : Sarah Washbrook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000115390

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Rural Chiapas Ten Years after the Zapatista Uprising by Sarah Washbrook Pdf

Considered the most significant recent agrarian movement in Mexico, the 1994 EZLN uprising by the indigenous peasantry of Chiapas attracted world attention. Timed to coincide with the signing of the NAFTA agreement, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation reasserted the value of indigenous culture and opposed the spread of neo-liberalism associated with globalization. The essays in this collection examine the background to the 1994 uprising, together with the reasons for this, and also the developments in Chiapas and Mexico in the years since. Among the issues covered are the history of land reform in the region, the role of peasant and religious organizations in constructing a new politics of identity, the participation in the rebellion of indigenous women and changing gender relations, plus the impact of the Zapatistas on Mexican democracy. The international group of scholars contributing to the volume include Sarah Washbrook, George and Jane Collier, Antonio García de León, Daniel Villafuerte Solís, Gemma van der Haar, Mercedes Olivera, Marco Estrada Saavedra, Heidi Moksnes, Neil Harvey, and Tom Brass. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Marcos (subcomandante.)
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1904859135

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Ya Basta! by Marcos (subcomandante.) Pdf

For ten years a voice from deep within the Mexican jungle has inspired us to fight back.

Author : Sarah Washbrook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000158199

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Rural Chiapas Ten Years after the Zapatista Uprising by Sarah Washbrook Pdf

Considered the most significant recent agrarian movement in Mexico, the 1994 EZLN uprising by the indigenous peasantry of Chiapas attracted world attention. Timed to coincide with the signing of the NAFTA agreement, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation reasserted the value of indigenous culture and opposed the spread of neo-liberalism associated with globalization. The essays in this collection examine the background to the 1994 uprising, together with the reasons for this, and also the developments in Chiapas and Mexico in the years since. Among the issues covered are the history of land reform in the region, the role of peasant and religious organizations in constructing a new politics of identity, the participation in the rebellion of indigenous women and changing gender relations, plus the impact of the Zapatistas on Mexican democracy. The international group of scholars contributing to the volume include Sarah Washbrook, George and Jane Collier, Antonio García de León, Daniel Villafuerte Solís, Gemma van der Haar, Mercedes Olivera, Marco Estrada Saavedra, Heidi Moksnes, Neil Harvey, and Tom Brass. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Ziga Vodovnik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:725980889

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Ya Basta! Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising by Ziga Vodovnik Pdf

Author : George Allen Collier,Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello
Publisher : Food First Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016309820

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Basta! by George Allen Collier,Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello Pdf

On January 1, 1994, in the impoverished state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, the Zapatista rebellion shot into the international spotlight. In this fully revised third edition of their classic study of the rebellion's roots, George Collier and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello paint a vivid picture of the historical struggle for land faced by the Maya Indians, who are among Mexico's poorest people. Examining the roles played by Catholic and Protestant clergy, revolutionary and peasant movements, the oil boom and the debt crisis, NAFTA and the free trade era, and finally the growing global justice movement, the authors provide a rich context for understanding the uprising and the subsequent history of the Zapatistas and rural Chiapas, up to the present day. Book jacket.

Author : Norbert Ross
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978830332

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A World of Many by Norbert Ross Pdf

A World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas. The research demonstrates children’s agency in creating their worlds, while also investigating the role played by the surrounding social and physical environment. Different experiences with schooling, parenting, goals and values, but also with climate change, water scarcity, as well as racism and settler colonialism form part of the reason children create their emerging worlds. These worlds are not make believe or anything less than the ontological products of their parents. Instead, Norbert Ross argues that by creating different worlds, the children ultimately fashion themselves into different human beings - quite literally being different in the world. A World of Many combines experimental research from the cognitive sciences with critical theory, exploring children’s agency in devising their own ontologies. Rather than treating children as somewhat incomplete humans, it understands children as tinkerers and thinkers, makers of their worlds amidst complex relations. It regards being as a constant ontological production, where life and living constitutes activism. Using experimental paradigms, the book shows that children locate themselves differently in these emerging worlds they create, becoming different human beings in the process.

Author : Margaret Kohn,Keally McBride
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190453350

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Political Theories of Decolonization by Margaret Kohn,Keally McBride Pdf

Political Theories of Decolonization provides an introduction to some of the seminal texts of postcolonial political theory. The difficulty of founding a new regime is an important theme in political theory, and the intellectual history of decolonization provides a rich--albeit overlooked--opportunity to explore it. Many theorists have pointed out that the colonized subject was a divided subject. This book argues that the postcolonial state was a divided state. While postcolonial states were created through the struggle for independence, they drew on both colonial institutions and reinvented pre-colonial traditions. Political Theories of Decolonization illuminates how many of the central themes of political theory such as land, religion, freedom, law, and sovereignty are imaginatively explored by postcolonial thinkers. In doing so, it provides readers access to texts that add to our understanding of contemporary political life and global political dynamics.

Author : Ana Paula Ambrosi,Silvia D. Zárate,Alex M. Saragoza
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313349492

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Mexico Today [2 volumes] by Ana Paula Ambrosi,Silvia D. Zárate,Alex M. Saragoza Pdf

Providing over 200 entries on politics, government, economics, society, culture, and much more, this two-volume work brings modern Mexico to life. Viva Mexico! Border sharer. Major trade partner. Exporter of culture and citizens. Tourist destination. Mexico has always been of the utmost significance to the United States, with the shared 2,000-mile border, historical ties in mutual territory, and history of Mexican labor coming north and American tourists heading south. Fresh, current information on Mexico, the North American hotspot and gateway to Latin America, is always in demand by students and general readers and travelers. This is the best ready-reference on the crucial topics that define Mexico today. More than 200 essay entries provide quick, authoritative insight into the Mexican politics and government, society, institutions, events, culture, economy, people, issues, environment, and states and places. Written mostly by Mexicans and Mexican Americans, this set gives an accurate and wide view of the United States's dynamic southern neighbor. Each entry has further reading suggestions; a chronology, selected bibliography, and photographs complement the text.

Author : Jan Rus,Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo,Shannan L. Mattiace
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Chiapas (Mexico)
ISBN : 0742511480

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Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias by Jan Rus,Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo,Shannan L. Mattiace Pdf

The Maya Indian peoples of Chiapas had been mobilizing politically for years before the Zapatista rebellion that brought them to international attention. This authoritative volume explores the different ways that Indians across Chiapas have carved out autonomous cultural and political spaces in their diverse communities and regions. Offering a consistent and cohesive vision of the complex evolution of a region and its many cultures and histories, this work is a fundamental source for understanding key issues in nation building. In a unique collaboration, the book brings together recognized authorities who have worked in Chiapas for decades, many linking scholarship with social and political activism. Their combined perspectives, many previously unavailable in English, make this volume the most authoritative, richly detailed, and authentic work available on the people behind the Zapatista movement.

Author : Christian Schmid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351876438

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Urban Revolution Now by Christian Schmid Pdf

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become reality, Lefebvre’s ideas on everyday life, production of space, rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are indispensable for the understanding of urbanization processes at every scale of social practice. This volume is the first to develop Lefebvre’s concepts in social research and architecture by focusing on urban conjunctures in Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dhaka, Hong Kong, London, New Orleans, Nowa Huta, Paris, Toronto, São Paulo, Sarajevo, as well as in Mexico and Switzerland. With contributions by historians and theorists of architecture and urbanism, geographers, sociologists, political and cultural scientists, Urban Revolution Now reveals the multiplicity of processes of urbanization and the variety of their patterns and actors around the globe.

Author : Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195377385

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The Oxford Handbook of Mexican Politics by Roderic Ai Camp Pdf

A comprehensive view of the remarkable transformation of Mexico's political system to a democratic model. The contributors to this volume assess the most influential institutions, actors, policies and issues in the country's current evolution toward democratic consolidation.

Author : Leonidas Oikonomakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319902036

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Political Strategies and Social Movements in Latin America by Leonidas Oikonomakis Pdf

This book investigates how social movements form their political strategies in their quest for social change and -when they shift from one strategy to another- why and how that happens. The author creates a model which distinguishes between two different roads to social change: one that passes through the seizure of state power and one that avoids any relationship with the state. Comparing the cases of two Latin American social movements, the Zapatistas in Mexico and the Bolivian Cocaleros, the volume argues that strategic choices are often decided upon through similar mechanisms. Ideal for a scholarly and non-specialist audience interested in Mexican and Bolivian politics, revolutions, and Latin American and social movement studies.

Author : Dorothea Hilhorst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136179426

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Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises by Dorothea Hilhorst Pdf

Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? This book examines this question from a sociological perspective. This book provides a qualitative inquiry into the social and political dynamics of local institutional response, international policy and aid interventions in crises caused by conflict or natural disaster. Emphasising the importance of everyday practices, this book qualitatively unravels the social and political working of policies, aid programmes and local institutions. The first part of the book deals with the social life of politics in crisis. Some of the questions raised are: What is the meaning of human security in practice? How do governments and other actors use crises to securitize – and hence depoliticize - their strategies? The second part of the book deals with the question how local institutions fare under and transform in response to crises. Conflicts and disasters are breakpoints of social order, with a considerable degree of chaos and disruption, but they are also marked by processes of continuity and re-ordering, or the creation of new institutions and linkages. This part of the book focuses on institutions varying from inter-ethnic marriage patterns in Sri Lanka to situation of institutional multiplicity in Angola. The final part of the book concerns the social and political realities of different domains of interventions in crisis, including humanitarian aid, peace-building, disaster risk reduction and safety nets to address chronic food crises. This book gives students and researchers in humanitarian studies, disaster studies, conflict and peace studies as well as humanitarian and military practitioners an invaluable wealth of case studies and unique political science analysis of the humanitarian studies field.

Author : Marcos,Žiga Vodovnik,Noam Chomsky,Naomi Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Chiapas (Mexico)
ISBN : 9616446371

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¡Ya basta! by Marcos,Žiga Vodovnik,Noam Chomsky,Naomi Klein Pdf

Author : Tom Brass
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004337091

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Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies by Tom Brass Pdf

Debates about labour markets and the identity of those who, in an economic sense, circulate within them, together with the controversies such issues generate, have in the past been confined by development studies to the Third World. Now these same concerns have shifted, as the study of development has turned its attention to how these same phenomena affect metropolitan capitalist nations. For this reason, the book does not restrict the analysis of issues such as the free/unfree labour distinction and non-class identity to Third World contexts. The reviews, review essays and essays collected here also examine similar issues now evident in metropolitan capitalism, together with their political and ideological effects and implications.