{"product_id":"kuxlejal-politics-indigenous-autonomy-race-and-decolonizing-research-in-zapatista-communities-hardback-9781477314463","title":"Kuxlejal Politics; Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities (Hardback) 9781477314463","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKuxlejal Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIndigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMariana Mora (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477314463, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eRemarkable…Mora does not limit her analysis to examine Zapatista indigenous autonomy from a de-colonial framework, but also decolonizes her own research methods...\u003ci\u003eKuxlejal Politics\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to expand the discussion on the various autonomous projects underway in Latin America and to challenge the research methodology of the anthropology in contact with indigenous peoples.\u003c\/div\u003e (European Review of Latin American and Carribean Studies) \u003cdiv\u003eA brilliant ethnography of a movement from below that simply refused to accept the prevailing ideological, social, and political structures of oppression.\u003c\/div\u003e (Latin American Perspectives) \u003cdiv\u003e[An] innovative book…decolonial approaches are needed to reframe research and knowledge production in geography; such a reframing should be attentive to multiple and diverse ontologies and epistemologies…\u003ci\u003eKuxlejal Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is exemplary of how the work of reframing might be done. More than that, it is a vision of a life politics that gives me hope.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Latin American Geography) \u003cdiv\u003eMora’s project is a model of collaborative research with the communities she did research in....Mora does not romanticise the Zapatista movement; rather, she allows her research subjects to step out of the background of data collection. In this way, her conceptualisation helps us to understand the historical roots and current practices of Zapatista communities by placing them centre stage.\u003c\/div\u003e (ALMA Reviews)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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 \u003ci\u003elekil kuxlejal\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003ekuxlejal\u003c\/i\u003e (or life) politics unsettle key racialized effects of the Mexican neoliberal state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough detailed narratives, thick descriptions, and testimonies, \u003ci\u003eKuxlejal Politics\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne. A Brief Overview of the First Years of the Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (1996–\u003cbr\u003e2003)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo. The Production of Knowledge on the Terrain of Autonomy: Research as a Topic of Political Debate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree. Social Memories of Struggle and Racialized (E)states\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour. Zapatista Agrarian Reform within the Racialized Fields of Chiapas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive. Women’\u003cbr\u003es Collectives and the Politicized (Re)production of Social Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix. \u003ci\u003eMandar Obedeciendo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e or, Pedagogy and the Art of Governing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Zapatismo as the Struggle to Live within the \u003ci\u003eLekil Kuxlejal\u003c\/i\u003e Tradition of Autonomy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589127106840,"sku":"9781477314463","price":52.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/kuxlejal-politics-indigenous-autonomy-race-and-decolonizing-research-in-zapatista-communities-hardback-9781477314463","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}