{"product_id":"lessons-from-the-zapatistas-from-armed-insurgency-to-people-s-autonomy","title":"Lessons from the Zapatistas: From Armed Insurgency to People’s Autonomy by Lia Pinheiro Barbosa and Peter M. Rosset \u0026 translated by Henry Veltmeyer and Peter M. Rosset","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLessons from the Zapatistas\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLia Pinheiro Barbosa\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter M. Rosset\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Translator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenry Veltmeyer\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus in International Development Studies at Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a prolific author on matters of Development and Globalization. He is also the editor of a series of books on critical development studies at Fernwood and Routledge UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Booktique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45932893503548,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/4879\/8012\/files\/9781773637532.jpg?v=1785277190","url":"https:\/\/www.booktique.ca\/products\/lessons-from-the-zapatistas-from-armed-insurgency-to-people-s-autonomy","provider":"Booktique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}