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ISBN 10: 1477314494
ISBN 13: 9781477314494
Author: Mariana Mora
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.
Kuxlejal Politics 1st Table of contents:
Introduction
One: A Brief Overview of the First Years of the Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (1996–2003)
Two: The Production of Knowledge on the Terrain of Autonomy: Research as a Topic of Political Debate
Three: Social Memories of Struggle and Racialized (E)states
Four: Zapatista Agrarian Reform within the Racialized Fields of Chiapas
Five: Women’s Collectives and the Politicized (Re)production of Social Life
Six: Mandar Obedeciendo; or, Pedagogy and the Art of Governing
Conclusion: Zapatismo as the Struggle to Live within the Lekil Kuxlejal Tradition of Autonomy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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