Politics, identity, and Mexico's indigenous rights movements

Drawing on an original survey of more than 5,000 respondents, this book argues that, contrary to claims by the 1994 Zapatista insurgency, indigenous and non-indigenous respondents in southern Mexico have been united by socioeconomic conditions and land tenure institutions as well as by ethnic identi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eisenstadt, Todd A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
Series:Cambridge studies in contentious politics
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Surveying the silence : traditional societies, indigenous rights, and the state in southern Mexico
  • A tale of two movements : comparing mobilizations in Chiapas 1994 and Oaxaca 2006
  • Individual and communitarian identities in indigenous southern Mexico : a theoretical and statistical framework
  • Agrarian conflict, armed rebellion, and the struggle for rights in Chiapas' Lacandon jungle
  • Customary practices, women's rights, and multicultural elections in Oaxaca
  • From balaclavas to baseball caps : the many hats of "real world" indigenous identities
  • Reconciling individual rights, communal rights, and autonomy institutions : lessons from Chiapas and Oaxaca