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Record Nr.

UNINA9911064729703321

Autore

Aguirre Rojas Carlos Antonio

Titolo

To Lead by Obeying : The Political Lessons of Mexican Neo-Zapatismo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

1-4331-9674-3

1-4331-9673-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 pages)

Collana

Latin America Series ; ; v.40

Disciplina

972/.75

Soggetti

Aguirre

Anticapitalism

Antisystemic Movements

Antonio

Carlos

Crisis of Capitalism

Johanna

Lead

Lessons

Lüder

Mexican

New Social Movements in Latin America

Obeying

Political

Rojas

Zapatismo

Chiapas (Mexico) History Peasant Uprising, 1994-

Chiapas (Mexico) History Autonomy and independence movements

Mexico Politics and government 1810-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page --



Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- By Way of Introduction: When the Imagination Takes Power -- An Ordinary and Extraordinary Experience: The First Gathering of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World -- Resituating the Event in Historical Perspective -- ·1· Leading by Obeying: Popular Self-Government, Political Autonomy, and Integral Global Autonomy -- Defending Autonomy as Integral Global Autonomy -- The Logic of Leading by Obeying -- The Mechanisms and Implications of Leading by Obeying -- The Principles of Excercising a Very Other Government -- ·2· The Death of the Human Activity of Politics: The Other Politics and the Other Democracy -- The Other Politics in the Context of the Death of Politics -- Deconstructing and Unthinking Limited Formal Democracy: The Other Democracy -- ·3· Mexican Neo-Zapatismo, Heir to the World Cultural Revolution of 1968 -- When Being Realistic Means Demanding the Impossible -- Because Even Today, "We want everything, right away!" -- ·4· The Mexican Neo-Zapatista Movement and the Transition from a Modernity of Resistance to an Alternative Modernity -- The Multiple Modernities of "Modernity" -- The Other Economy: Mother Earth, Collective Labor, and Equitable Distribution -- Laying the Foundations for an Other Society: A Truly Anti-capitalist Feminism and a Holistic and Anti-commodifying View of Health -- The Other Culture: The Recuperation and Reappraisal of Deep Popular Knowledge -- A Conclusion That Questions Instead of Concluding -- Appendix 1 Building Counter-Power from Below and to the Left (or, How to Change the World by Revolutionizing Power from Below Power) -- Changing the World by Revolutionizing Power -- Returning to the 'Power' of the Classics.

On the Omnipotent Weakness of the State and Political Power -- From Below and to the Left -- Appendix 2 The Zapatista Gaze: Looking (to and from) Below and to the Left -- The Gaze That Sees Farther -- The Gaze That Illuminates What Is Missing, What Is Incomplete -- Now We Can See the Horizon!15 -- Appendix 3 The New Stage of Mexican Neo-Zapatismo -- Appendix 4 The Little Zapatista School: Living the Struggle for Autonomy from Within -- On the Way to School -- Hurrying to Get There -- With Books Under Their Arm -- The Whole World Goes Out to Struggle -- Appendix 5 The (Symbolic) Death of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos and the Collective Neo-Zapatista 'we' -- The Neo-Zapatista Expectation of an Unexpected Death -- Despairing Over the Extreme Authoritarianism of the "New" PRI -- Hopes and Expectations of the New Stage of Neo-Zapatismo -- Building the Collective Neo-Zapatista 'We' -- Appendix 6 Mexican Neo-Zapatismo and Its Impact within Contemporary Social Sciences: Six Theses to Develop -- Appendix 7 Mexican Neo-Zapatismo's Contribution to the Development of Contemporary Critical Thought -- Appendix 8 Neo-Zapatista Discoveries: Birthing the New World from Below, Knowing Arts, Creating Sciences -- Introduction -- Revolutionizing the Forms of Making the Revolution -- Art and Science for Birthing the New Non-capitalist World from Below -- Appendix 9 Mexico and Mexican Neo-Zapatismo in Times of COVID-19 -- Works Cited -- Glossary -- Translator's Note.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the main political lessons of the Mexican movement of Neozapatismo. The book presents also how the Neozapatismo embodies a real project of an alternative modernity, in front of the decadent and destructive capitalist modernity, still dominant all over the world.