ISBN:
9780230340046
,
9781283440585
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 195 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century : Community-Based Social Movements and Global Change in the Americas
DDC:
303.48/4097209051
Keywords:
Political culture
;
Political culture
;
Social change
;
Social movements
;
Social movements
;
Social change
;
Social movements -- United States
;
Social movements -- Mexico
;
Social change -- United States
;
Social change -- Mexico
;
Political culture -- United States
;
Political culture -- Mexico
;
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Abstract:
By analyzing the cases present in this volume, the editors develop important steps towards a theory of social change that can adequately address the complex realities and intersectionality of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality) within and among these new movements.
Abstract:
By analyzing the cases present in this volume, the editors develop important steps towards a theory of social change that can adequately address the complex realities and intersectionality of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality) within and among these new movements
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century: Community-Based Social Movements and Global Change in the Americas; Contents; Chapter 1: Local Communities and Global Resistance: Social Change and Autonomy Struggles in the Americas; Introduction: New Languages of Resistance to Globalization; The Zapatistas, the State, and "Accumulation by Dispossession"; Power, the Nation-State, and the EZLN; The Role of the State and "Expanded Reproduction"; Social Theory, Cultural Politics, and New Social Movements
Description / Table of Contents:
Autonomy: Postliberalism and "Alternative Modernizations": The Politics of Community in the Americas from South to NorthThis Bridge Called Zapatismo; Organization of the Volume; References; Notes; Part I: Cultural Resistance and Identity; Chapter 2: New Political Actors in Rural Mexico: The Challenges and Achievements of Peasant and Indigenous Women; Introduction; Women and Rural Social Struggles; Rural Women Speak Out; Convergences and Conflicts in Gender Identity; Dialogues with Civil and Peasant Feminisms; The New Indigenous Identities and Gendered Demands
Description / Table of Contents:
The National Movement for Indigenous WomenThe Voices of Women in the Legal Debate; New National Situations and Local Struggles in the Twenty-First Century; In Conclusion: Challenges and Achievements of Peasant Women's Movements; References; Notes; Chapter 3: The Rebel Girls of the Other Campaign: The EZLN and Teenage Activism in Mexico City; High Schools and La Otra, Fall 2005; Thinking Zapatismo; Doing Zapatismo; Feeling Zapatista; Zapatismo as a Resource; References; Note; Chapter 4: Zapatismo and Community-Based Social Change: Toward a Feminist Global Praxis?
Description / Table of Contents:
Zapatismo: A New Avenue for ActivismThe Global Resonance of Zapatismo; Zapatismo on the Ground; References; Notes; Chapter 5: La Otra Educación: Hip-Hop, Zapatismo, and Popular Education; Beyond Solidarity; La Otra Educación; Conclusion; References; Notes; Part II: Political Resistance and Identity; Chapter 6: Maíz y País: Indigenous Mexican Struggles against Biotechnology in Agriculture; Outline of the Cases; Biotechnology and Indigenous Communities; Changing Our Relationship to Corn; Fighting for Maíz y País; En la Lucha: APPO; Autonomy and Zapatismo; Conclusion; References; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7: Generating Hope, Creating Change, Searching for Community: Stories of Resistance against Globalization at the U.S.-Mexico BorderReferences; Notes; Chapter 8: Struggles for Social Movement Autonomy in a Global Port City; Framing Social Change Work; Neighborhood Organizing; Methods; The Web of Agencies; Defining Stakeholder; Doing Community; Significance for the TSF Collaborative; References; Notes; Chapter 9: Present in the World Economy: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (1996-2007); Actions; Outcomes; The Dialectics of Everyday Transnationalism; Conclusion; References; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: Local Movements? Global Movements?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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