This book develops the main political lessons that the Mexican
Neozapatismo movement brings us, in its almost 30 years of public
life. Thus, beginning by defining the singular concept of Autonomy
that the Neozapatista movement proposes, different from legal,
anthropological or political definitions, and conceived as real global
autonomy. Then the content of the Neozapatista oxymoron ‘Mandar
Obedeciendo’, ‘To Lead by Obeying’ is explained as identical to
the idea of popular self-government. A new concept of autonomy is
linked necessarily with the idea of ‘Other Politics’ and ‘Other
Democracy’. The book also presents how Neozapatismo embodies a
project of modernity that, having been constructed as a modernity of
resistance for five centuries to the dominant modernity imposed by the
Spaniards in Mexico, has now been transformed into a project of a real
alternative modernity to capitalism.
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The Political Lessons of Mexican Neo-Zapatismo
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ISBN
9781433196744
Publisert
2024
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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