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

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations, map 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (243-267) and index Notes Print version record 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 HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Indians of Mexico -- Government relations Indians of Mexico -- Social conditions Peasants -- Political activity Politics and government Representative government and representation Social movements SUBJECT Chiapas (Mexico) -- History -- Peasant Uprising, 1994- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005637 Chiapas (Mexico) -- Politics and government -- 20th century Chiapas (Mexico) -- Politics and government -- 21st century Subject Mexico Mexico -- Chiapas Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477314487 1477314482 9781477314494 1477314490

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