For Whom the Nation? Internationalization, Zapatismo, and the Struggle Over Mexican Modernity

Hilbert, Sarah

doi:10.1111/1467-8330.00039

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“…The uprising was motivated by the neoliberal reforms implemented by carlos salinas de Gortari as president of Mexico (1988Mexico ( -1994, including the abolition of land reform and the signing of the north American Free Trade Agreement (nAFTA), which exacerbated the marginalization and impoverishment of the nation's peasant and indigenous population. The stark social contradictions of this project had been depoliticized through a technocratic discourse that emphasized the need for national unity in response to conditions of economic necessity (Hilbert, 1997). The Zapatistas challenged this discourse by demonstrating the radical nonconformity of the indigenous peoples that it silenced and presumed to speak for.…”

Section: The Postpolitical Modality Of Depoliticizationmentioning

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The Urbanization of the Countryside

Wilson¹

2012

Latin American Perspectives

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The Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP) is a development program for the modernization of southern Mexico and Central America through the construction of transnational urban networks. The implementation of the PPP in Chiapas provides a significant example of the relationship between depoliticization and planned urbanization in the context of contemporary neoliberal governance. The production of space embodied in the PPP advances the consolidation of capitalist social relations and the extension of state power while representing this process as a pragmatic response to economic necessity in the interest of the common good. This project, however, is undermined by the constitutive antagonisms of neoliberal urbanization, as demonstrated by multiple place-based resistances and the ongoing development of the Zapatista autonomous territories. El Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP) es un programa de desarrollo para la modernización de la región sureña de México y Centro América por medio de la construcción de redes urbanas trasnacionales. La implementación del PPP en Chiapas proporciona un ejemplo significante en la relación entre la despolitización y planificación urbana en el contexto de la gobernabilidad neoliberal contemporánea. La producción del espacio personificado en la PPP avanza la consolidación de relaciones sociales capitalistas y la extensión del poder del estado, mientras se representa este proceso como respuesta pragmática a la necesidad económica y el interés del bien común. Sin embargo, este proyecto se socava por los antagonismos constitutivos de la urbanización neoliberal, demostrado por la resistencia localizada y el desarrollo actual de territorios autónomos zapatistas.

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Section: The Postpolitical Modality Of Depoliticizationmentioning

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The Urbanization of the Countryside

Wilson¹

2012

Latin American Perspectives

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“…For instance, Cecena (2004) examines the role of historical memory in the construction of knowledge and territory in the Zapatista movement, contextualizing the Zapatista struggle in geographical terms. The Zapatistas’ normative constructions of nationalism and the nation are examined in comparative perspective by Gallaher and Froehling (2002; see also Hilbert 1997), who contrast the Zapatistas’ agonistic, inclusive construction of the Mexican nation with the antagonistic, exclusionary brand of nationalism embraced by the US Patriot movement. The Zapatistas have found political and cultural resonance throughout the Americas (Olesen 2004; Zibechi 2004), in part because of their early use of the internet as a way to communicate with and build a national and international community of support (Froehling 1997).…”

Section: Latin American Social Movements Trends and Timingmentioning

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Latin American Social Movements: A Review and Critique of the Geographical Literature

Perreault

2008

Geography Compass

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Drawing on a survey of the academic literature from 1975 to the present, this article examines research by geographers on Latin American social movements. The survey identified over 100 works, distributed in a temporally, spatially, and thematically uneven fashion. Work by geographers on Latin American social movements has increased dramatically since 1990. The article reviews the geographical literature on Latin American social movements, discusses reasons for the increase in social movement activity since 1990 (and the increased attention by geographers to social movements during this period), and outlines an agenda for further research. Of the categories of social movements studied, indigenous movements garnered the most attention, followed by transnational solidarity/Left political movements. Agrarian, environmental, and women's movements have also received considerable attention. Greater geographical attention needs to be paid to movements of the elite and the political Right; gay, lesbian, and transgender movements; and the entry of social movements into formal (electoral) politics.

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“…In Trinidad and Tobago the voices of the disciples and the damned are also reinforced by certain additional factors. First, the loud voices of the street (protest, riot, or coup) provided an air of authenticity to the press (Auvinen, 1996;Hilbert, 1997;Walton, 1989;Walton and Seddon, 1994). The most dramatic examples of this in Trinidad and Tobago were the attempted coup d'e¨tat of 27 July 1990 by the Jamaat al Muslimeen, in which fire, destruction, twenty-five deaths, hundreds injured, and looting replaced mere words (Ragoonath, 1993;Ryan, 1991b;Searle, 1991), and the wave of labour strikes that took place in 1991, including workers as diverse as teachers, sugar farmers, and medical personnel.…”

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A Tale of Contestation, Disciples, and Damned: The Lessons of the Spread of Globalization into Trinidad and Tobago

Riddell

2003

Environ Plan A

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Globalization has spread throughout the world, reaching into its remotest corners. At a world scale, the recent phase of this diffusion has been enhanced and enforced by a neoliberal global financial architecture. However, within many Third World countries, especially during recent decades when an integral component of their integration has been an agreement with the international financial institutions, the local acceptance of globalization has led to an intense contestation between those who win during incorporation and those who lose. In many Southern nations, the discord is muted, obstructed, or is masked; in others, though, the conflict is open and public. The author employs the voices of the winners and losers in an open and public conflict where the contestation was in fact published in the national press. His focus is the debate over the costs and benefits of international incorporation which occurred in Trinidad and Tobago with structural adjustment programmes. The country, with its democratic government and free expression, serves as a window into an otherwise murky process, for elsewhere this contest has often been unrecoverable and subterranean. Integral to the understanding of the spread of globalization into the Third World is the operation of the winners in a compradorial fashion—here, we learn how such disciples establish a national mindset which assists the international spread of globalization.

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For Whom the Nation? Internationalization, Zapatismo, and the Struggle Over Mexican Modernity

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

The Urbanization of the Countryside

The Urbanization of the Countryside

Latin American Social Movements: A Review and Critique of the Geographical Literature

A Tale of Contestation, Disciples, and Damned: The Lessons of the Spread of Globalization into Trinidad and Tobago

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