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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455360903321

Autore

Stephen Lynn

Titolo

Zapata lives! [[electronic resource] ] : histories and cultural politics in southern Mexico / / Lynn Stephen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-75897-7

9786612758973

0-520-92764-8

1-59875-018-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Disciplina

972/.740836

Soggetti

Social movements - Mexico - History - 20th century

Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Chiapas - Government relations

Indians of Mexico - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Chiapas (Mexico) History Peasant Uprising, 1994-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-377) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Preface -- Part I. The Political and Historical Contexts of Zapatismo -- Part II. Zapatismo in Eastern Chiapas -- Part III. New and Old Zapatismo in Oaxaca -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This richly detailed study chronicles recent political events in southern Mexico, up to and including the July 2000 election of Vicente Fox. Lynn Stephen focuses on the meaning that Emiliano Zapata, the great symbol of land reform and human rights, has had and now has for rural Mexicans. Stephen documents the rise of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas and shows how this rebellion was understood in other parts of Mexico, particularly in Oaxaca, giving a vivid sense of rural life in southern Mexico. Illuminating the cultural dimensions of these political events, she shows how indigenous Mexicans and others fashioned their own responses to neoliberal economic policy, which ended land reform, encouraged privatization, and has resulted in increasing socioeconomic



stratification in Mexico. Mixing original ethnographic material drawn from years of fieldwork in Mexico with historical material from a variety of sources, Stephen shows how activists have appropriated symbols of the revolution to build the contemporary political movement. Her wide-ranging narrative touches on the history of land tenure, racism, gender issues in the Zapatista movement, local political culture, the Zapatista uprising of the 1990's and its aftermath, and more. A significant addition to our knowledge of social change in contemporary Mexico, Zapata Lives! also offers readers a model for engaged, activist anthropology.