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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781119103321

Autore

Khasnabish Alex <1976->

Titolo

Zapatismo beyond borders : new imaginations of political possibility / / Alex Khasnabish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9282-0

1-4426-8969-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Classificazione

15.85

Disciplina

322.4

Soggetti

Social movements - Mexico - Chiapas - History

Social movements - North America - History

History

Electronic books.

Chiapas (Mexico) History Peasant Uprising, 1994-

Chiapas (Mexique) Histoire 1994 (Révolte paysanne)

Mexico

Chiapas (provincie)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : bridges of imagination, spaces of possibility -- 1. Power, democracy, and (re)shaping the terrain of political struggle -- 2. Northern struggles, northern histories -- 3. Dreams of revolution, myths of power : Mexican revolutionary histories -- 4. Echoes and openings : resonance -- 5. Imagining struggle/struggling to imagine : imagination and political action -- 6. New horizons : resonance and political action -- 7. New terrains : mapping emerging possibilities in a transnational field of action -- Conclusion : globalizing hope.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines how Zapatismo, the political philosophy of the Zapatistas, crossed the regional and national boundaries of the isolated indigenous communities of Chiapas to influence diverse communities of North American activists.