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Lynn Stephen is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon and Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca, both also published by Duke University Press.
List of contents
Maps, Illustrations, and Videoclips vii
Acronyms and Abbreviations xi
About the Website xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1. Testimony: Human Rights, and Social Movements 1
2. Histories and Movements: Antecedents to the Social Movement of 2006 36
3. The Emergence of the APPO and the 2006 Oaxaca Social Movement 66
4. Testimony and Human Rights Violations in Oaxaca 95
5. Community and Indigenous Radio in Oaxaca: Testimony and Participatory Democracy 121
6. The Women's Takeover of Media in Oaxaca: Gendered Rights "to Speak" and "to Be Heard" 145
7. The Economics and Politics of Conflict: Perspectives from Oaxacan Artisans, Merchants, and Business Owners 178
8. In Indigenous Activism: The Triqui Autonomous Municipality, APPO Juxtlahuaca, and Transborder Organizing in AAPO-L.A. 209
9. From Barricades to Autonomy and Art: Youth Organizing in Oaxaca 245
Conclusions 276
Notes 289
Bibliography 303
Index 323
About the author
Lynn Stephen
Summary
Lynn Stephen uses the Oaxaca social movement of 2006 to illustrate how oral testimony is central to rights-claiming, participatory democracy, knowledge creation, and the production of new political subjects in contemporary social movements.
