Rights in rebellion
Subtitle: indigenous struggle and human rights in Chiapas
By: Shannon Speed
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780804757331; 9780804757348
Subjects: Mayas -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Government relations; Mayas -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Politics and government; Mayas -- Civil rights -- Mexico -- Chiapas; Human rights -- Mexico -- Chiapas; Government, Resistance to -- Mexico -- Chiapas; Chiapas (Mexico) -- Politics and government; Chiapas (Mexico) -- Social conditions; Chiapas (Mexico) -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-232) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: human rights and Chiapas in the neoliberal era; title: Global discourses on the local terrain : grounding human rights in Chiapas; title: "Neither rights nor humans" : the vicissitudes of local appropriation; title: Dialogisms, or, On being and becoming indigenous in Nicolás Ruiz; title: Gendered intersections : collective and individual rights in indigenous women's experience; title: "Assuming our own own defense" : rights, resistance, and the law in the Red de defensores comunitarios; title: "Improving the paths of resistance" : the Juntas de Buen Gobierno and rights in their exercise; title: Rights in rebellion : rethinking resistance in the neoliberal global order