When the roots start moving : first mouvement : to navigate backward : resonating with Zapatismo / eds: Alessandra Pomarico, Nikolay Oleynikov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pomarico, Alessandra, editor.

Oleynikov, Nikolay, editor.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chto Delat? (Collective).

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)--Influence.

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico).

Art--Political aspects.

History.

Social movements.

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

Chiapas (Mexico).

Social movements--Mexico--Chiapas--History.

Art--Political aspects--History--21st century.

Art.

Mexico--Chiapas.

Physical Description:

259 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

To navigate backward : resonating with Zapatismo

Place of Publication:

Salento, Italy : Free Home University ; Berlin : Archive Books, 2021.

Summary:

To Navigate Backward: Resonating with Zapatismo' a book-within-a-book, the first of three mouvements (as in a musical composition) is a collection of essays titled When the 'Roots Start Moving: Chto Delat and Free Home University' - investigating predicaments of rootedness and rootlessness and notions of belonging and of displacement across different geographical and epistemological coordinates. Zapatismo--the insurgent movement of Indigenous peoples from Mexico--emerges as a form of belonging, a home (or a homecoming) for our hopes and political imaginaries, providing a praxis to learn from and with. The contributors of this book, without romanticizing or objectifying the Zapatista struggle toward Autonomy, offer their understanding of the Zapatistas movement, of their poetics and politics within an Indigenous cosmovision and cosmopolitics, but also in relation with the current global ecological and social crises. The book extend the research and practice of artistic collective Chto Delat, long since adopting Zapatismo as a lens to self-reflect and emblematically reminding of how the Zapatista imaginary continues to inspire those who are looking for emancipatory tools: through art, language, radical pedagogy and conviviality, as a practice of commoning and collectively reimagining an otherwise.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9783948212704

3948212708

OCLC:

1286311385