Description: Kuxlejal Politics : Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities, Paperback by Mora, Mariana, ISBN 1477314474, ISBN-13 9781477314470, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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.
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Book Title: Kuxlejal Politics : Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing R
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Kuxlejal Politics : Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Social History, Indigenous Studies, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Author: Mariana Mora
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
