Kuxlejal politics : indigenous autonomy, race, and decolonizing research in Zapatista communities /

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Author / Creator:	Mora Bayo, Mariana, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:	English
Subject:	Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Government relations. Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Social conditions. Social movements -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History. Indians of Mexico -- Political activity -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History. Peasants -- Political activity -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History. Representative government and representation -- Mexico -- History. Indians of Mexico -- Government relations. Indians of Mexico -- Social conditions. Peasants -- Political activity. Politics and government. Representative government and representation. Social movements. Chiapas (Mexico) -- History -- Peasant Uprising, 1994- Chiapas (Mexico) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Chiapas (Mexico) -- Politics and government -- 21st century. Mexico. Mexico -- Chiapas. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12589593

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ISBN:	9781477314487 1477314482 9781477314494 1477314490 9781477314463 1477314466 9781477314470 1477314474
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (243-267) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Mora Bayo, Mariana. Kuxlejal politics. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017 9781477314463

Table of Contents:

A brief overview of the first years of the Zapatista autonomous municipalities (1996-2003)
The production of knowledge on the terrain of autonomy : research as a topic of political debate
Social memories of struggle and racialized (e)states
Zapatista agrarian reform within the racialized fields of Chiapas
Women's collectives and the politicized (re)production of social life
Mandar obedeciendo; or, pedagogy and the art of governing
Conclusion : Zapatismo as the struggle to live within the lekil kuxlejal tradition of autonomy.

Kuxlejal politics : indigenous autonomy, race, and decolonizing research in Zapatista communities /

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