Understanding the Chiapas rebellion
Subtitle: modernist visions and the invisible Indian
By: Nicholas P. Higgins.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Austin, Tx
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Marcos, subcomandante; 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 -- Peasant Uprising, 1994-; Chiapas (Mexico) -- Politics and government; Chiapas (Mexico) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : approaching the Indian in world politics; title: Maps of the mind : Spanish conquest and the Indian soul; title: Enlightenment legacies : colonial reform, independence, and the invisible Indian of the liberal state; title: The governmental state : Indian labor, liberal-authoritarianism, and revolt; title: Institutionalizing the Indian : corporatismo, indigenismo, and the creation of an authoritarian regime; title: Neoliberal governmentality : social change, contested identities, and rebellion; title: Visible Indians : Subcomandante Marcos and the "indianization" of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation; title: Conclusion : modernist visions and the invisible Indian.