Basta!: Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in ChiapasOn January 1, 1994, in the impoverished state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, the Zapatista rebellion shot into the international spotlight. In this fully revised third edition of their classic study of the rebellion's roots, George Collier and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello paint a vivid picture of the historical struggle for land faced by the Maya Indians, who are among Mexico's poorest people. Examining the roles played by Catholic and Protestant clergy, revolutionary and peasant movements, the oil boom and the debt crisis, NAFTA and the free trade era, and finally the growing global justice movement, the authors provide a rich context for understanding the uprising and the subsequent history of the Zapatistas and rural Chiapas, up to the present day. |
Contents
CHIAPAS AND MEXICO | 13 |
THE LEGACY OF CONQUEST | 16 |
EXPORT ENCLAVES AND NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION | 21 |
MEXICOS REVOLUTION | 26 |
AGRARIAN REFORM | 29 |
EASTERN CHIAPAS LAND | 35 |
AGRARIAN REFORM AND CONFLICT | 43 |
EASTERN CHIAPAS THE BUILDING OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS | 51 |
TRADITION VERSUS LITERACY AND LAW | 133 |
DIVIDED SOLIDARITY | 137 |
TRANSITIONS | 145 |
LESSONS FROM THE PAST | 149 |
THE NEW INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT | 157 |
THE NEW ZAPATISMO | 159 |
THE DOUBLEEDGED SWORD OF NEOLIBERALISM | 165 |
MILITARIZATION AND CONTAINMENT | 168 |
PROTESTANT EVANGELIZATION | 53 |
CATHOLIC RESPONSES | 59 |
PEASANT ORGANIZATIONS | 64 |
CHALLENGES TO THE GOVERNMENT | 68 |
DISILLUSIONMENT AND DISAGREEMENT | 76 |
THE GROWTH OF THE GUERRILLA MOVEMENT | 81 |
OIL AND THE CRISIS IN MEXICAN AGRICULTURE | 89 |
CRISIS IN AGRICULTURE | 91 |
ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN CHIAPAS | 94 |
RESTRUCTURING PEASANT AGRICULTURE | 99 |
THE TOLL OF RESTRUCTURING ON LIVES AND COMMUNITIES | 105 |
LAND AND THE CHANGING ECONOMY | 108 |
GENDER AND GENERATION GAPS | 111 |
THE WIDENING GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR | 114 |
LEADERS WHO NO LONGER NEED FOLLOWERS | 117 |
EXCLUSION THE NEW POLITICS | 123 |
NEW LAW NEW POLITICS | 124 |
CONTROL OF MONEY | 128 |
LEGAL CONCESSIONS AND COOPTATION | 175 |
CHIAPAS AT AN IMPASSE | 179 |
CONNECTING THE LOCAL TO THE NATIONAL AND THE GLOBAL | 181 |
ANTIMONIES OF SOLIDARITY | 183 |
NEOLIBERALISM AND ANTINEOLIBERALISM | 185 |
LAUNCHING THE GLOBAL ANTINEOLIBERAL CAUSE | 188 |
NETWORKING FOR AUTONOMY IN CHIAPAS | 192 |
AGROECOLOGY AND RESISTANCE | 195 |
THE MUT VITZ ORGANIC COFFEE COOPERATIVE | 198 |
THE SOCIAL INEQUITIES OF AGRICULTURAL FREE TRADE | 204 |
CHALLENGES FOR GLOBAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS | 208 |
NOTES | 215 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO THE REVISED EDITION | 237 |
REFERENCES | 241 |
INDEX | 267 |
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