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Guerrillas --- Guérillas --- History --- Histoire --- Chiapas (Mexico) --- Mexico --- Chiapas (Mexique) --- Mexique --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Guérillas --- Guerrilla --- Chiapas (México: Estado) --- Narraciones. --- Chiapas (México) --- Movimientos sociales. --- Chiapas (Mexico) - History - Peasant Uprising, 1994 --- -Chiapas (Mexico) - History - Peasant Uprising, 1994 --- -Guerrillas --- -Chiapas (Mexico)

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"In the early hours of January 1, 1994 a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants emerged from the highlands and jungle in the far southeast of Mexico and declared "Ya basta!" -- "Enough!" -- to 500 years of colonialism, racism, exploitation, oppression, and genocide. As elites in Canada, the United States, and Mexico celebrated the coming into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional, EZLN) declared war against this 500 year old trajectory toward oblivion, one that they said was most recently reincarnated in the form of neoliberal capitalist globalization that NAFTA represented. While the Zapatista uprising would have a profound impact upon the socio-political fabric of Chiapas its effects would be felt far beyond the borders of Mexico. At a moment when state-sponsored socialism had all but vanished from the global political landscape and other familiar elements of the left appeared utterly demoralized and defeated in the face of neoliberal capitalism's global ascendance, the Zapatista uprising would spark an unexpected and powerful new wave of radical socio-political action transnationally. Through an exploration of the Zapatista movement's origins, history, structure, aims, political philosophy and practice, and future directions this book provides a critical, comprehensive, and accessible overview of one of the most important rebel groups in recent history." -- Publisher description.

Socialism --- Anti-globalization movement. --- Socialisme --- Antimondialisation --- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico) --- History. --- Influence. --- 855.5 Gewapende groeperingen --- 882.3 --- Chiapas (Mexico) -- History -- Peasant Uprising, 1994-. --- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico) -- History. --- Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Social conditions -- 20th century. --- Social movements -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History -- 20th century. --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Conditions --- National movements --- Chiapas --- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico) --- 882.3 Midden-Amerika

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Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana Mora’s more than ten years of extended research and solidarity work in Chiapas, with Tseltal and Tojolabal community members helping to design and evaluate her fieldwork. The result of that collaboration—a work of activist anthropology—reveals how Zapatista kuxlejal (or life) politics unsettle key racialized effects of the Mexican neoliberal state. Through detailed narratives, thick descriptions, and testimonies, Kuxlejal Politics focuses on central spheres of Zapatista indigenous autonomy, particularly governing practices, agrarian reform, women’s collective work, and the implementation of justice, as well as health and education projects. Mora situates the proposals, possibilities, and challenges associated with these decolonializing cultural politics in relation to the racialized restructuring that has characterized the Mexican state over the past twenty years. She demonstrates how, despite official multicultural policies designed to offset the historical exclusion of indigenous people, the Mexican state actually refueled racialized subordination through ostensibly color-blind policies, including neoliberal land reform and poverty alleviation programs. Mora’s findings allow her to critically analyze the deeply complex and often contradictory ways in which the Zapatistas have reconceptualized the political and contested the ordering of Mexican society along lines of gender, race, ethnicity, and class.

Indians of Mexico --- Social movements --- Government relations. --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Chiapas (Mexico) --- History --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Chiapas - Government relations --- Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Chiapas - Social conditions --- Social movements - Mexico - Chiapas - History --- Indians of Mexico - Political activity - Mexico - Chiapas - History --- Peasants - Political activity - Mexico - Chiapas - History --- Representative government and representation - Mexico - History --- Chiapas (Mexico) - History - Peasant Uprising, 1994 --- -Chiapas (Mexico) - Politics and government - 20th century --- Chiapas (Mexico) - Politics and government - 21st century --- Peasants --- Representative government and representation --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of minorities --- Political sociology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Chiapas