By Lynn Stephen

This richly certain examine chronicles fresh political occasions in southern Mexico, as much as and together with the July 2000 election of Vicente Fox. Lynn Stephen makes a speciality of the that means that Emiliano Zapata, the nice image of land reform and human rights, has had and now has for rural Mexicans. Stephen records the increase of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas and indicates how this uprising used to be understood in different elements of Mexico, quite in Oaxaca, giving a shiny feel of rural lifestyles in southern Mexico. Illuminating the cultural dimensions of those political occasions, she indicates how indigenous Mexicans and others shaped their very own responses to neoliberal financial coverage, which ended land reform, inspired privatization, and has ended in expanding socioeconomic stratification in Mexico.

Mixing unique ethnographic fabric drawn from years of fieldwork in Mexico with ancient fabric from numerous assets, Stephen indicates how activists have appropriated symbols of the revolution to construct the modern political circulate. Her wide-ranging narrative touches at the historical past of land tenure, racism, gender concerns within the Zapatista stream, neighborhood political tradition, the Zapatista rebellion of the Nineteen Nineties and its aftermath, and extra. an important addition to our wisdom of social swap in modern Mexico, Zapata Lives! additionally deals readers a version for engaged, activist anthropology.