Zapatista Spring
Author: Ramor Ryan
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1849350728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The revolution or revolutionary charity? All is not as it seems deep inside the Zapatista rebellion.
Author: Ramor Ryan
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1849350728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The revolution or revolutionary charity? All is not as it seems deep inside the Zapatista rebellion.
Author: Andrej Grubacic
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-04-19
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0520287304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the earliest development of states, groups of people escaped or were exiled. As capitalism developed, people tried to escape capitalist constraints connected with state control. This powerful book gives voice to three communities living at the edges of capitalism: Cossacks on the Don River in Russia; Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico; and prisoners in long-term isolation since the 1970s. Inspired by their experiences visiting Cossacks, living with the Zapatistas, and developing connections and relationships with prisoners and ex-prisoners, Andrej Grubacic and Denis O’Hearn present a uniquely sweeping, historical, and systematic study of exilic communities engaged in mutual aid. Following the tradition of Peter Kropotkin, Pierre Clastres, James Scott, Fernand Braudel and Imanuel Wallerstein, this study examines the full historical and contemporary possibilities for establishing self-governing communities at the edges of the capitalist world-system, considering the historical forces that often militate against those who try to practice mutual aid in the face of state power and capitalist incursion.
Author: Doctor Alex Khasnabish
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-04-04
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1848138067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the early hours of January 1, 1994 a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants emerged from the highlands and jungle in the far southeast of Mexico and declared "¡Ya basta!" - "Enough!" - to 500 years of colonialism, racism, exploitation, oppression, and genocide. As elites in Canada, the United States, and Mexico celebrated the coming into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) declared war against this 500 year old trajectory toward oblivion, one that they said was most recently reincarnated in the form of neoliberal capitalist globalization that NAFTA represented. While the Zapatista uprising would have a profound impact upon the socio-political fabric of Chiapas its effects would be felt far beyond the borders of Mexico. At a moment when state-sponsored socialism had all but vanished from the global political landscape and other familiar elements of the left appeared utterly demoralized and defeated in the face of neoliberal capitalism's global ascendance, the Zapatista uprising would spark an unexpected and powerful new wave of radical socio-political action transnationally. Through an exploration of the Zapatista movement's origins, history, structure, aims, political philosophy and practice, and future directions this book provides a critical, comprehensive, and accessible overview of one of the most important rebel groups in recent history.
Author: John Holloway
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Baghdad Bulletin takes us where mainstream news accounts do not go. Disrupting the easy cliches that dominate US journalism, Enders blows away the media fog of war.' Norman Soloman
Author: Gloria Muñoz Ramírez
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2008-02-15
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated history of the Zapatistas based on interviews with the movement's original organizers.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-11-04
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9004408703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Negotiating Space in Latin America, edited by Patricia Vilches, contributors approach spatial practices from multidisciplinary angles. The volume advances innovative conceptualizations on spatiality and treats subjects that range from nineteenth century-nation formation to twenty-first century social movements.
Author: Jeanne Simonelli
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2005-01-28
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0759115001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico, have often been portrayed in reductive, polarized terms; either as saintly activists or dangerous rebels. Cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli, drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork, attained a collegiality with the Zapatistas that reveals a more complex portrait of a people struggling with self-determination on every level. Seeking a new kind of experimental ethnography, Earle & Simonelli have chronicled a social experiment characterized by resistance, autonomy and communality. Combining their own compelling narrative as participant-observers, and those of their Chiapas compadres, the authors effectively call for an activist approach to research. The result is a unique ethnography that is at once analytical and deeply personal. Uprising of Hope will be compelling reading for scholars and general readers of anthropology, social justice, ethnography, Latin American history and ethnic studies.
Author: Hilary Klein
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2015-02-24
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1609805887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compañeras is the untold story of women's involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion that has inspired grassroots activists around the world for over two decades. Gathered here are the stories of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters who became guerilla insurgents and political leaders, educators and healers—who worked collectively to construct a new society of dignity and justice. Compañeras shows us how, after centuries of oppression, a few voices of dissent became a force of thousands, how a woman once confined to her kitchen rose to conduct peace negotiations with the Mexican government, and how hundreds of women overcame ingrained hardships to strengthen their communities from within.
Author: Javier Sethness
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2012-06-26
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1849351066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster. Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought as a means of changing our historical trajectory. Javier Sethness-Castro is a libertarian socialist and a rights advocate. Imperiled Life is his first book.
Author: María de la Luz Inclán
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0190869461
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Transitions from authoritarian to democratic governments can provide ripe scenarios for the emergence of new, insurgent political actors and causes. During peaceful transitions, such movements may become influential political players and gain representation for previously neglected interests and sectors of the population. But for this to happen, insurgent social movements need opportunities for mobilization, success, and survival. This book looks at Mexico'sZapatista movement, and why the movement was able to mobilize sympathy and support for the indigenous agenda inside and outside of the country, yet failed to achieve their goals vis-à-vis the Mexican state.