Moral Force of Indigenous Politics - Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas

Informationen zum Autor Courtney Jung is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition (2000) which was the winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2001. Klappentext This book traces the transformation of indigenous politics in Mexico, linking indigenous identity directly to state formation. Zusammenfassung Courtney Jung traces the development of indigenous movements in Mexico! linking indigenous identity directly to the project of Mexican state formation. She argues that the moral force of indigenous claims rests on the history of oppression that has constituted the indigenous as a political group! and not on cultural difference. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Stepping behind the claims of culture: constructing identities, constituting politics; 2. Internal colonialism in Mexican state formation; 3. 'The politics of small things'; 4. From peasant to indigenous: shifting the parameters of politics; 5. The politics of indigenous rights; 6. Critical liberalism; Appendix.

Product details

• Authors: Courtney Jung, Courtney (New School for Social Research Jung, Jung Courtney
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521703475
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70347-5
• No. of pages: 366
• Series: Contemporary Political Theory; Contemporary Political Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Mexico, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Indigenous Peoples, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Relating to indigenous peoples, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Social and cultural history, Sociology & anthropology, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions