Lessons from the Zapatistas

Name: Lessons from the Zapatistas
Brand: Fernwood Publishing
SKU: 9781773637556
Price: 17.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-773-63755-6

From Armed Insurgency to People’s Autonomy

de Lia Pinheiro Barbosa (auteur), Peter M. Rosset (auteur), Henry Veltmeyer (traduction), Peter M. Rosset (traduction)

Maison d'édition : Fernwood Publishing

septembre 2025

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Résumé

Lessons from the Zapatistas is essential reading for anyone interested in liberation, democracy and radical social transformation. It tells the story of the Zapatista insurgency, including the contemporary breadth and depth of their territorial autonomy, tracing how an Indigenous uprising burst forth from southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle to stage the 21st century’s first and most electrifying example of autonomy in action. The book provides a succinct history of the Zapatistas while analyzing their unique political thought as an amalgam of influences from Mayan cosmovision and languages, the Mexican Revolution, Latin American revolutionary thought, Marxism and anarchism. The authors trace the movement from its clandestine origins to the 1994 uprising and failed negotiations with the Mexican government, through the development of their unique form of grassroots autonomy and self-government — all the while fending off the violence of the state. The book offers an original analysis of Zapatista political theory, attending to the prominent role of women, their practice of social autonomy and experiments in education, self-government and alternative economic development.

Auteur

Lia Pinheiro Barbosa (auteur)

Lia Pinheiro Barbosa is an activist and professor of sociology at the State University of Ceará (UECE) based in Fortaleza, Brazil. She has written extensively on the Zapatistas in Mexico and the MST (Landless Workers Movement) in Brazil, including her book Educación, resistencia y movimientos sociales: la praxis educativo-política de los Sin Tierra y de los Zapatistas (Education, Resistance, and Social Movements: The Educational-Political Praxis of the MST and the Zapatistas) published in 2015 by the UNAM Press in Mexico.
Peter M. Rosset (auteur, Traduit par)

Peter M. Rosset is an academic, author and activist who resides in Chiapas, Mexico. He is a university professor at the Ecosur Advanced Studies Institute in Mexico, as well as at universities in Brazil and Thailand, and the author of more than 10 books and more than 100 academic papers. He is a former secretariat staff member of the global peasant movement, La Via Campesina.
Henry Veltmeyer (Traduit par)

Henry Veltmeyer est professeur de sociologie et des études en développement international à l’Université Saint-Mary’s et est titulaire d’une nomination professorale au programme de doctorat en études du développement à la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Mexique).