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Rights in rebellion : indigenous struggle and human rights in Chiapas / Shannon Speed.

Author/creator Speed, Shannon, 1964-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxvii, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Subject(s)
Mayas--Mexico --Chiapas --Government relations.
Mayas--Mexico --Chiapas --Politics and government.
Mayas--Civil rights --Mexico --Chiapas.
Human rights--Mexico --Chiapas.
Government, Resistance to--Mexico --Chiapas.
Chiapas (Mexico)--Politics and government.
Chiapas (Mexico)--Social conditions.
Chiapas (Mexico)--Race relations.
Contents Introduction: human rights and Chiapas in the neoliberal era -- Global discourses on the local terrain : grounding human rights in Chiapas -- "Neither rights nor humans" : the vicissitudes of local appropriation -- Dialogisms, or, On being and becoming indigenous in Nicolás Ruiz -- Gendered intersections : collective and individual rights in indigenous women's experience -- "Assuming our own own defense" : rights, resistance, and the law in the Red de defensores comunitarios -- "Improving the paths of resistance" : the Juntas de Buen Gobierno and rights in their exercise -- Rights in rebellion : rethinking resistance in the neoliberal global order.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-232) and index.
LCCN 2007019284
ISBN9780804757331 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080475733X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780804757348 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0804757348 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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