The moral force of indigenous politics
Subtitle: critical liberalism and the Zapatistas
By: Courtney Jung.
Series: Contemporary political theory
Publisher: New School for Social Research, Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521878760; 9780521703475
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Ethnic identity; Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government; Minorities -- Mexico; Multiculturalism -- Mexico; Mexico -- Ethnic relations; Mexico -- Politics and government
Description: "Tracing the political origins of the Mexican indigenous rights movement, from the colonial encounter to the Zapatista uprising, and from Chiapas to Geneva, Courtney Jung locates indigenous identity in the history of Mexican state formation. She argues that the formation of indigenous identity is a political achievement, not an accident of birth. Using this account of the emergence of indigenous identity, Jung argues that the moral force of indigenous claims rest not on the existence of cultural differences, or identity, but on the history of exclusion and selective inclusion that has constituted the indigenous as a political group. This book will appeal to scholars and students of political theory, philosophy, sociology and anthropology studying multiculturalism and politics and culture." -- Publisher's information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stepping behind the claims of culture : constructing identities, constituting politics; title: Internal colonialism in Mexican state formation; title: "The politics of small things"; title: From peasant to indigenous : shifting the parameters of politics; title: The politics of indigenous rights; title: Critical liberalism.