Developing Zapatista Autonomy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Developing Zapatista Autonomy write by Niels Barmeyer. This book was released on 2009. Developing Zapatista Autonomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on his own experience and further research in Chiapas, Barmeyer provides an in-depth analysis of the advances and limitations of the Zapatista autonomy project over the past fourteen years.
Autonomy Is in Our Hearts
Autonomy Is in Our Hearts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Autonomy Is in Our Hearts write by Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater. This book was released on 2019-02-01. Autonomy Is in Our Hearts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the Zapatista uprising on New Year’s Day 1994, the EZLN communities of Chiapas began the slow process of creating a system of autonomous government that would bring their call for freedom, justice, and democracy from word to reality. Autonomy Is in Our Hearts analyzes this long and arduous process on its own terms, using the conceptual language of Tsotsil, a Mayan language indigenous to the highland Zapatista communities of Chiapas. The words “Freedom,” “Justice,” and “Democracy” emblazoned on the Zapatista flags are only approximations of the aspirations articulated in the six indigenous languages spoken by the Zapatista communities. They are rough translations of concepts such as ichbail ta muk’ or “mutual recognition and respect among equal persons or peoples,” a’mtel or “collective work done for the good of a community” and lekil kuxlejal or “the life that is good for everyone.” Autonomy Is in Our Hearts provides a fresh perspective on the Zapatistas and a deep engagement with the daily realities of Zapatista autonomous government. Simultaneously an exposition of Tsotsil philosophy and a detailed account of Zapatista governance structures, this book is an indispensable commentary on the Zapatista movement of today.
Autonomy and Development in Zapatista Territory
Autonomy and Development in Zapatista Territory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Autonomy and Development in Zapatista Territory write by Niels Alexander Barmeyer. This book was released on 2004. Autonomy and Development in Zapatista Territory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Speed of the Snail
The Speed of the Snail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Speed of the Snail write by Ana C. Dinerstein. This book was released on 2013. The Speed of the Snail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The recent re-emergence of autonomy as a central demand in many social movements across the world (which involve claims for self-determination, organisational self-management and independence vis-à-vis the state and capital) has opened a theoretical space to re-think its meanings in novel ways. Particularly interesting are in this regard autonomous practices, which have been presented by movements as offering an alternative to social relations of capitalism. In this paper I offer an illustrative case study of new political and juridical bodies (the 'Snails' and Good Government Council) operated by the Zapatista movement in the Chiapas region, Mexico. I use this case to illustrate the Zapatista's struggle for autonomy with, against and beyond the Mexican State, and the role of the law and policy making in disciplining the rebel communities of Chiapas. By exploring the Zapatistas' critique of civil society and development, I engage with Bloch's 'principle of hope' in order to theorise autonomy as a form of 'organising hope'. I suggest that autonomy delineates spaces where a utopian impulse is articulated, made concrete, realised, experienced, and also disappointed. The data presented comes from the author's research project on social movements and collective autonomy in Latin America (RES-155-25-0007) funded by the 'Non-Governmental Public Action' programme of the Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom.
Uprising of Hope
Uprising of Hope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uprising of Hope write by Duncan Earle. This book was released on 2005. Uprising of Hope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico, have often been portrayed in reductive, polarized terms; either as saintly activists or dangerous rebels. Cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli, drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork, attained a collegiality with the Zapatistas that reveals a more complex portrait of a people struggling with self-determination on every level. Seeking a new kind of experimental ethnography, Earle & Simonelli have chronicled a social experiment characterized by resistance, autonomy and communality. Combining their own compelling narrative as participant-observers, and those of their Chiapas compadres, the authors effectively call for an activist approach to research. The result is a unique ethnography that is at once analytical and deeply personal. Uprising of Hope will be compelling reading for scholars and general readers of anthropology, social justice, ethnography, Latin American history and ethnic studies.
