基本説明
A multi-sited ethnography of various groups in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico.
Full Description
Rights in Rebellion examines the global discourse of human rights and its influence on the local culture, identity, and forms of resistance. Through a multi-sited ethnography of various groups in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico—from paramilitaries to a Zapatista community, an indigenous human rights organization, and the Zapatista Good Governance Councils—the book explores how different groups actively engage with the discourse of rights, adapting it to their own individual subjectivities and goals, and develop new forms of resistance to the neoliberal model and its particular configurations of power. Far from being a traditional community study, this book instead follows the discourse of human rights and indigenous rights through their various manifestations. The author offers a compelling argument for the importance of a critical engagement between the anthropologist and her "subjects," passionately making the case for activist research and demonstrating how such an engagement will fortify and enliven academic research.
Contents
Contents List of Figures and Maps Preface: Activist Research in Chiapas xxx Acknowledgments xxx Acronyms and Abbreviations xxx 1 Introduction: Human Rights and Chiapas in the Neoliberal Era 1 2 Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Grounding Human Rights in Chiapas 000 Chapter Three: "Neither Rights nor Humans": the Vicissitudes of Local Appropriation 000 Chapter Four: Dialogisms, or, On Being and Becoming Indigenous in Nicol s Ruiz 000 Chapter Five: Gendered Intersections: Collective and Individual Rights in Indigenous Women's Experience 000 Chapter Six: Assuming our own Own Defense: Rights, Resistance, and the Law in the Red de Defensores Comunitarios 000 Chapter Seven: "Improving the Paths of Resistance": the Juntas Buen Gobierno and Rights in their Exercise 000 Chapter Eight: Rights in Rebellion: Rethinking Resistance in the Neoliberal Global Order 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
