| Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas Contributor(s): Speed, Shannon (Author) |
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ISBN: 080475733X ISBN-13: 9780804757331 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: "Rights in Rebellion" examines the global discourse of human rights and its influence on the local culture, identity, and forms of resistance. Through a multi-sited ethnography of various groups in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico--from paramilitaries to a Zapatista community, an indigenous human rights organization, and the Zapatista Good Governance Councils--the book explores how different groups actively engage with the discourse of rights, adapting it to their own individual subjectivities and goals, and develop new forms of resistance to the neoliberal model and its particular configurations of power. Far from being a traditional community study, this book instead follows the discourse of human rights and indigenous rights through their various manifestations. The author offers a compelling argument for the importance of a critical engagement between the anthropologist and her "subjects," passionately making the case for activist research and demonstrating how such an engagement will fortify and enliven academic research. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | Human Rights |
| Dewey: 323.119 |
| LCCN: 2007019284 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.17 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An anthropological examination of the globalized discourse of human rights and the local production of cultural identities and forms of resistance in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico. |
