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Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas

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ISBN-10: 0935028978

ISBN-13: 9780935028973

Edition: 3rd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: George A. Collier, Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello

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List price: $16.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Institute for Food & Development Policy/Food First Books
Publication date: 5/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 281
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Foreword
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Spanish Edition
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chiapas and Mexico
The Legacy of Conquest
Export Enclaves and National Consolidation
Mexico's Revolution
Agrarian Reform
Eastern Chiapas: Land
Colonizing Eastern Chiapas
Agrarian Reform and Conflict
Eastern Chiapas: The Building of Social Movements
Protestant Evangelization
Catholic Responses
Peasant Organizations
Challenges to the Government
Disillusionment and Disagreement
The Growth of the Guerrilla Movement
Oil and the Crisis in Mexican Agriculture
Crisis in Agriculture
Energy Development in Chiapas
Restructuring Peasant Agriculture
The Toll of Restructuring on Lives and Communities
Land and the Changing Economy
Gender and Generation Gaps
The Widening Gap between Rich and Poor
Leaders Who No Longer Need Followers
Exclusion: The New Politics
"New Law,""New Politics"
Control of Money
Tradition versus Literacy and Law
Divided Solidarity
Transitions
Lessons from the Past
The New Indigenous Movement
The New Zapatismo
The Double-Edged Sword of Neoliberalism
Militarization and Containment
Legal Concessions and Co-optation
Chiapas at an Impasse
Connecting the Local to the National and the Global
Networking for Survival
Antimonies of Solidarity
Neoliberalism and Anti-neoliberalism
Launching the Global Anti-neoliberal Cause
Networking for Autonomy in Chiapas
Agroecology and Resistance
The Mut Vitz Organic Coffee Cooperative
The Social Inequities of Agricultural Free Trade
Challenges for Global Resistance Movements
Notes
Bibliographical Note to the Revised Edition
References
Index
About the Authors
Figures
Chiapas and the Area of Zapatista Rebellion
"A Rich Land, a Poor People"
Export and Development in Nineteenth-Century Chiapas
Agrarian Reform in Chiapas
Eastern Chiapas Land Tenure, 1953 and 1991
Colonization and Landscape Changes in Eastern Chiapas
The Spread of Protestantism
Independent Organizations in Chiapas
Trends in Mexican Energy Development
Sites of Energy Development
Declines in Agriculture, 1960-1980
Growth in Construction and Transport, 1960-1980