Understanding the Chiapas rebellion

Higgins, Nicholas P. 1971-

Understanding the Chiapas rebellion modernist visions and the invisible Indian / [electronic resource] : Nicholas P. Higgins. - Austin, Tx. : University of Texas Press, 2004. - xiii, 259 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : approaching the Indian in world politics -- Maps of the mind : Spanish conquest and the Indian soul -- Enlightenment legacies : colonial reform, independence, and the invisible Indian of the liberal state -- The governmental state : Indian labor, liberal-authoritarianism, and revolt -- Institutionalizing the Indian : corporatismo, indigenismo, and the creation of an authoritarian regime -- Neoliberal governmentality : social change, contested identities, and rebellion -- Visible Indians : Subcomandante Marcos and the "indianization" of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation -- Conclusion : modernist visions and the invisible Indian.


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Marcos, subcomandante.


Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)


Mayas--Politics and government.--Mexico--Chiapas
Mayas--Government relations.--Mexico--Chiapas
Mayas--Civil rights--Mexico--Chiapas.


Chiapas (Mexico)--History--Peasant Uprising, 1994-
Chiapas (Mexico)--Politics and government.
Chiapas (Mexico)--Ethnic relations.


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