Uprising of hope : sharing the Zapatista journey to alternative development / Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Earle, Duncan, 1952-

Contributor:

Simonelli, Jeanne M.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Crossroads in qualitative inquiry.

Crossroads in qualitative inquiry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico).

Indians of Mexico--Government relations.

Politics and government.

Mayas--Government relations.

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

Indians of Mexico.

Mayas--Mexico--Chiapas--Government relations.

Mayas.

Mexico.

Mexico--Chiapas.

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

Chiapas (Mexico).

Mexico--Politics and government--1988-2000.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2005.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork with the Zapatistas of south-eastern Mexico, cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli reveal a complex portrait of a people struggling with self-determination on every level. Combining their own compelling narrative as participant-observers, and those of their Chaipas compadres, the authors effectively call for an activist approach to research, resulting in an ethnography that is at once analytical and deeply personal. Uprising of Hope is compelling reading for scholars and general readers of anthropology, social justice, et

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword by June Nash; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Lenses and Visions; PART 1: ARRIVALS; 1 Antonio Sanchez Cruz: The Road to the Edge of the Jungle; 2 Miguel Santiz: A History of a Person; 3 Duncan Earle: Heading for Hell; 4 Jeanne Simonelli: Invited to Abandon Mexico; PART 2: SEEKING A PATH; 5 Roads to Rebellion; 6 Construction, Destruction, and Reconstruction; 7 Millennium Dreams; 8 Analyzing Community Development with the Help of the Community; 9 The Expulsion: Legalizing Autonomy in Cerro Verde

10 Informed Permission and Invigorated AutonomyPART 3: DEFINING THE DREAM; 11 Alternative Constructions; 12 Whirling Silence; PART 4: HORIZONS OF HOPE; 13 Acompañar Obediciendo; 14 Caracoles; 15 Waking Up in Reality; 16 The Sea of Our Dreams; Glossary of Spanish and Maya Terms; References; Index; About the Authors

Notes:

Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-316) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-41777-4

0-7591-0540-5

0-7591-1500-1

OCLC:

855970077