Title: Understanding the Chiapas rebellion : modernist visions and the invisible Indian /
Authors: Higgins, Nicholas P. 1971-
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Marcos,; Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico); Mayas Mexico Chiapas Politics and government.; Mayas Mexico Chiapas Government relations.; Mayas Civil rights Mexico Chiapas.; Chiapas (Mexico) History; Chiapas (Mexico) Politics and government.; Chiapas (Mexico) Ethnic relations.
Contents: 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.