The Zapatista Experience

The Zapatista Experience

Author: Jérôme Baschet

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2024-09-24

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1849355711

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An exploration of the Zapatista project, from its conception to the present. On the thirtieth anniversary of the Mayan Indigenous uprising in Chiapas, The Zapatista Experience reconstructs the trajectory of the Zapatista struggle over the last three decades, both in its concrete achievements and in its contributions to the renewal of critical and antisystemic thinking. The Zapatista rebellion has become a reference and source of inspiration for many struggles around the world due to its major contribution in reformulating a credible and desirable path to emancipation, a path that broke with previously dominant conceptions: state-centric, productivist, Eurocentric, modernist, and patriarchal. Baschet demonstrates how the Zapatistas have succeeded in materializing, on a massive scale, the concrete experience of another way of living, a forerunner of possible emerging worlds. The autonomous rebel territories of Chiapas are among the most developed and radical of the "real utopias" that exist in the world today, exceptional in their experiments in self-governance and anti-State political form, argues Jérôme Baschet. The Zapatista Experience orients readers in the profusion of Zapatista writings concerning, for example, the elaboration of a different understanding of politics, the Zapatistas' planetary conjunctural analysis of capitalism as a total war against humanity, their conception of Indigeneity that breaks with both modernist individualism and identity politics, and their notion of time and history. All this in clear opposition to neoliberal capitalism.


Zapatistas

Zapatistas

Author: Mihalis Mentinis

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

Published: 2006-04-20

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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A bold new account of the movement and its contribution to political theory.


Basta!

Basta!

Author: George Allen Collier

Publisher: Food First Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780935028973

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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.


Let the Water Hold Me Down

Let the Water Hold Me Down

Author: Michael Spurgeon

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780986037450

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Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Still reeling from the loss of his family in an accident that he feels responsible for causing, Hank Singer accepts an invitation to move to the isolated and beautiful state of Chiapas. There, in the streets and cafes of a colonial city nestled in the mountain forests, he settles into the semblance of a new life under the watchful eye of his best friend and former college roommate, César, the charismatic heir to one of Mexico's most powerful families. But when an army of impoverished Indians calling themselves Zapatistas emerges from the jungle to seize half the state, Hank finds himself a foreigner trapped in someone else's war. The repercussions of the decisions he makes--and does not make--threaten to shatter both his friendship and the renewed life he has found in the Mexican highlands. In the tradition of Graham Greene's The Quiet American and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, LET THE WATER HOLD ME DOWN weaves real historical events into a riveting personal narrative about a man who finds himself caught up in a political landscape beyond his control.


The Zapatista Reader

The Zapatista Reader

Author: Tom Hayden

Publisher: Nation Books

Published: 2002-01

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 9781560253358

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Presents essays, interviews, articles, and correspondence centering on the revolutionary conflict in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.


Ya Basta!

Ya Basta!

Author: Marcos (subcomandante.)

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 9781904859130

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


Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias

Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias

Author: Jan Rus

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780742511484

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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.


Zapatista Spring

Zapatista Spring

Author: Ramor Ryan

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2011-09-13

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1849350736

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The revolution or revolutionary charity? All is not as it seems deep inside the Zapatista rebellion.


The Chiapas Rebellion

The Chiapas Rebellion

Author: Neil Harvey

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780822322382

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Through a pathbreaking study of the Zapatista rebellion of 1994, looks at the complexities of the political movement for Chiapas's indigenous peoples.