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Indians of Mexico --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Chiapas (Mexico) --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Estado de Chiapas (Mexico) --- Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Chiapas - Economic conditions --- Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Chiapas - Social conditions --- Chiapas (Mexico) - Economic conditions --- Chiapas (Mexico) - Social conditions

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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