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Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

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Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

Mariana Mora, "Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities"
English | ISBN: 1477314474 | 2017 | 288 pages | PDF | 15 MB

Over 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 lekil kuxlejal, 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
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