We Are The Face Of Oaxaca

Author : Lynn Stephen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822377504

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We Are the Face of Oaxaca by Lynn Stephen Pdf

A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television stations appropriated by APPO, shared at public demonstrations, debated in homes and in the streets, and disseminated around the world via the Internet. The movement was met with violent repression. Participants were imprisoned, tortured, and even killed. Lynn Stephen emphasizes the crucial role of testimony in human rights work, indigenous cultural history, community and indigenous radio, and women's articulation of their rights to speak and be heard. She also explores transborder support for APPO, particularly among Oaxacan immigrants in Los Angeles. The book is supplemented by a website featuring video testimonials, pictures, documents, and a timeline of key events.

Author : Dorothy L. Hodgson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812204612

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Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights by Dorothy L. Hodgson Pdf

An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights examines the potential and limitations of the "women's rights as human rights" framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice. Drawing on detailed case studies from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere, contributors to the volume explore the specific social histories, political struggles, cultural assumptions, and gender ideologies that have produced certain rights or reframed long-standing debates in the language of rights. The essays address the gender-specific ways in which rights-based protocols have been analyzed, deployed, and legislated in the past and the present and the implications for women and men, adults and children in various social and geographical locations. Questions addressed include: What are the gendered assumptions and effects of the dominance of rights-based discourses for claims to social justice? What kinds of opportunities and limitations does such a "culture of rights" provide to seekers of justice, whether individuals or collectives, and how are these gendered? How and why do female bodies often become the site of contention in contexts pitting cultural against juridical perspectives? The contributors speak to central issues in current scholarly and policy debates about gender, culture, and human rights from comparative disciplinary, historical, and geographical perspectives. By taking "gender," rather than just "women," seriously as a category of analysis, the chapters suggest that the very sources of the power of human rights discourses, specifically "women's rights as human rights" discourses, to produce social change are also the sources of its limitations.

Author : Freya Schiwy
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986676

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The Open Invitation by Freya Schiwy Pdf

The Open Invitation explores the relationship between prefigurative politics and activist video. Schiwy analyzes activist videos from the 2006 uprising in Oaxaca, the Zapatista’s Other Campaign, as well as collaborative and community video from the Yucatán. Schiwy argues that transnational activist videos and community videos in indigenous languages reveal collaborations and that their political impact cannot be grasped through the concept of the public sphere. Instead, she places these videos in dialogue with recent efforts to understand the political with communality, a mode of governance articulated in indigenous struggles for autonomy, and with cinematic politics of affect.

Author : Paul R. Carr,Brad J. Porfilio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136281983

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Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War by Paul R. Carr,Brad J. Porfilio Pdf

What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international projects/books that examine peace education in conjunction with war and conflict. Within this volume, the authors contend that war/military conflict/violence are not a nebulous, far-away, mysterious venture; rather, they argue that we are all, collectively, involved in perpetrating and perpetuating militarization/conflict/violence inside and outside of our own social circles. Therefore, education about and against war can be as liberating as it is necessary. If war equates killing, can our schools avoid engaging in the examination of what war is all about? If education is not about peace, then is it about war? Can a society have education that willfully avoids considering peace as its central objective? Can a democracy exist if pivotal notions of war and peace are not understood, practiced, advocated and ensconced in public debate? These questions, according to Carr and Porfilio and the contributors they have assembled, merit a critical and extensive reflection. This book seeks to provide a range of epistemological, policy, pedagogical, curriculum and institutional analyses aimed at facilitating meaningful engagement toward a more robust and critical examination of the role that schools play (and can play) in framing war, militarization and armed conflict and, significantly, the connection to peace.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Eamon Dolan Books
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780544866478

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On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux Pdf

Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as their families brave the journey north. From the writer praised for his "curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms" (New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Snakes is an exploration of a region in conflict.

Author : Bricia Lopez,Javier Cabral
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781683356523

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Oaxaca by Bricia Lopez,Javier Cabral Pdf

A colorful celebration of Mexican cuisine from LA’s landmark Oaxacan restaurant—with recipes for moles, salsa, cocktails, family meals and more. Oaxaca is the culinary heart of Mexico, and since opening its doors in 1994, Guelaguetza has been the center of life for the Oaxacan community in Los Angeles. Founded by the Lopez family, Guelaguetza has been offering traditional Oaxacan food for twenty-five years. In this delightful introduction to Oaxacan cuisine, each dish articulates the Lopez family story, from Oaxaca to the streets of Los Angeles and beyond. Showcasing the “soul food” of Mexico, Oaxaca offers 140 authentic, yet accessible recipes using some of the purest pre-Hispanic and indigenous ingredients available. From their signature pink horchata to the formula for the Lopez’s award-winning mole negro, Oaxaca demystifies this essential cuisine.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Business Year
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781912498772

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The Business Year: Mexico 2021 by Anonim Pdf

The Business Year is celebrating its 10th year in Mexico with the release of this special edition publication, which compiles over 100 interviews with business leaders and governmental authorities. With nothing to compare the current environment with, companies have been forced to make their own predictions on what the future will hold and, now that the dust has settled, the true winners and losers of the COVID-19 crisis are being revealed. This 160-page publication aims to provide a platform for the country's decision makers at a time of global uncertainty and act as a guide for investors looking seriously at the North American economy. It covers finance, the green economy, energy, industry, agriculture, IT and telecoms, logistics, security, real estate, health, and tourism.

Author : Maurice Rafael Magaña
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520344624

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Cartographies of Youth Resistance by Maurice Rafael Magaña Pdf

In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life. In the process, young people remake urban space and construct new identities in ways that directly challenge elite visions of their city and essentialist notions of what it means to be indigenous in the contemporary era. Cartographies of Youth Resistance is essential reading for students and scholars interested in youth politics and culture in Mexico, social movements, urban studies, and migration.

Author : R. Aída Hernández Castillo
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816532490

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Multiple InJustices by R. Aída Hernández Castillo Pdf

R. Aída Hernández Castillo synthesizes twenty-four years of research and activism among indigenous women's organizations in Latin America, offering a critical new contribution to the field of activist anthropology and for anyone interested in social justice.

Author : Judith Cooper Haden,Matthew Jaffe
Publisher : Artisan Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173011700825

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Oaxaca by Judith Cooper Haden,Matthew Jaffe Pdf

Explores the culture and customs of the Mexican region of Oaxaca.

Author : Roberto J. González
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520344204

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Connected by Roberto J. González Pdf

This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network—without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collective tribulation, triumph, and tragedy the community experienced in pursuit of getting connected. In doing so, this book captures the challenges and contradictions facing Mexico's indigenous peoples today, as they struggle to wire themselves into the 21st century using mobile technologies, ingenuity, and sheer determination. It also holds a broader lesson about the great paradox of the digital age, by exploring how constant connection through virtual worlds can hinder our ability to communicate with those around us.

Author : William J. Parry
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703104

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Chipped Stone Tools in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico by William J. Parry Pdf

Author : Joyce Marcus
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703487

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Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca by Joyce Marcus Pdf

Author : Charles Kerns
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987677358

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Oaxaca Blockade by Charles Kerns Pdf

Robert Evans, a gringo ex-pat called Santo Gordo by most everyone, is on the crime trail again in Oaxaca and Mexico City, facing down a police strike and then running a Teachers' Union blockade in search of a boy who has information about students murdered by the police. By the author of OAXACA CHOCOLATE, a Kirkus' Indie Book of the Month-"Oaxaca, lively, dark and under threat, plays a starring role in this satisfying mystery."-Kirkus Reviews

Author : Saeed Tiwana
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595422494

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The Prince and the Dancing Girl by Saeed Tiwana Pdf

A dazzling page-turner, this novel depicts some of the great and near-great of history. The locale spans three continents: it is the story of wise men, heroes and fools. Peopled by a sprawling cast of memorable characters-royalty, patriots, heroic men and courageous women. The story moves with a tremendous sweep from one adventure to another, and is a network of intrigue and misunderstandings and missed opportunities, It is a powerful portrait of the great Austrian dynasty of Europe containing scenes of wealth and privilege and dire responsibility. A prince strives to inspire his people with hope and courage, gathering his forces, and stimulating them into action. While he works hard in many ways to rescue his country from the plight into which it had been thrown and all the while searching for an even deeper understanding of life and wise judgment. Politicians, philosopher and pundits lend thoughts to the judgments made by rulers and commoners alike. Princesses and exotic women add their love for the arts and fashion and enticement. All of these qualities combined make a dynamic story line for a magnetic novel. A novel crowded with beauty and incident, the search for wisdom, ambition, and adventure. A living novel which unexpectedly makes you feel you are in a story filled with people you know personally.