Zapata lives! : histories and cultural politics in southern Mexico / Lynn Stephen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephen, Lynn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chiapas (Mexico)--History--Peasant Uprising, 1994-.

Chiapas (Mexico).

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico).

Social movements--Mexico--History--20th century.

Social movements.

Mexico.

History.

Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Chiapas--Government relations.

Indians of Mexico.

Mexico--Chiapas.

Indians of Mexico--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xlv, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I. The Political and Historical Contexts of Zapatismo

1. Introduction: The "Fields" of Anthropology, Human Rights, and Contemporary Zapatismo 3

2. Government Construction and Reappropriation of Emiliano Zapata 33

3. Ethnic and Racial Categories in Mexican History 83

Part II. Zapatismo in Eastern Chiapas

4. The Historical Roots of Indigenous Struggle in Chiapas 91

5. The New Zapatismo in the Lacandon Jungle 103

6. Zapata Vive! Lacandon Zapatismo and Its Translation to Larger Mexico 147

7. Conversations with Zapatistas: The Revolutionary Law of Women and Military Occupation 176

Part III. New and Old Zapatismo in Oaxaca

8. The Historical Roots of Land Conflict and Organizing in Oaxaca 219

9. The Story of Santa Maria del Tule: Zapata, Cardenas, and "Good Guy" Officials 240

10. The Formation of the Ejido of Union Zapata 267

11. Contradictions of Zapatismo in Rural Oaxaca 287

Conclusion: Reclaiming the Mexican Nation for the Poor and the Indigenous South 316.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0520222377

0520230523

OCLC:

45639058