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Rights in rebellion : indigenous struggle and human rights in Chiapas
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- Creator
- Shannon Speed
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780804757331, 080475733X, 9780804757348, 0804757348
- OCLC
- ocn128237176
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-232) and index.
- Introduction: human rights and Chiapas in the neoliberal era -- Global discourses on the local terrain : grounding human rights in Chiapas -- "Neither rights nor humans" : the vicissitudes of local appropriation -- Dialogisms, or, On being and becoming indigenous in Nicolás Ruiz -- Gendered intersections : collective and individual rights in indigenous women's experience -- "Assuming our own own defense" : rights, resistance, and the law in the Red de defensores comunitarios -- "Improving the paths of resistance" : the Juntas de Buen Gobierno and rights in their exercise -- Rights in rebellion : rethinking resistance in the neoliberal global order
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.