The investigation was realized in order to analyze central aspects in the ongoing discussion on Indigenous Autonomy. The material presented is from the indigenous regions of Altamirano and Huixtan in Chiapas, Mexico. By examining the formation and strategies of two regional organizations that work towards autonomy, I discuss issues of social participation, power, authority, culture and territory, elements that are crucial in this debate. I argue that the struggle for autonomy, as it is concretized in these two regions, has contributed to an empowerment of the population. Through the establishment of a range of locally operated social services, the population is regaining control over their own situation and possibilities to affect decisions...
This paper analyses the role that federal and local elites played in the transformation of a non-vio...
Se explora el caso de la comunidad indígena de Cherán (México) con el objetivo de analizar el proces...
Over the past two decades, indigenous groups across Latin America have been demanding and obtaining ...
In recent decades, the demand for autonomy has become a banner of struggle for the indigenous people...
The indigenous autonomy movement in Mexico challenges indigenous peoples\u27 second-class status by ...
Over the past century, the Mexican government has continued to reproduce dominant, colonial relation...
Most exogenous developmental models have not provided satisfactory results in indigenous settings. T...
A partir des pratiques éducatives des paysans zapatistes du Chiapas, l’autonomie se conceptualise co...
textGrounded in the geographies of Chiapas, Mexico, the dissertation maps a cartography of Zapatista...
January 2004 marked the tenth anniversary of the uprising of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Na...
Indigenous communities in Mexico have not achieved the desired response in meeting their demands and...
In the following contribution I analyze the emergence of a new indigenous self-government model at a...
Wolfesberger P. Processes of Territorialization in Mexico. Conflict and Society. 2019;5(1):41-54.Cur...
Observa-se nas últimas três décadas a emergência política de diversas organizações indígenas nos paí...
Since the constitutional reform of 1992, which allows the privatization of ejidal lands, investment ...
This paper analyses the role that federal and local elites played in the transformation of a non-vio...
Se explora el caso de la comunidad indígena de Cherán (México) con el objetivo de analizar el proces...
Over the past two decades, indigenous groups across Latin America have been demanding and obtaining ...
In recent decades, the demand for autonomy has become a banner of struggle for the indigenous people...
The indigenous autonomy movement in Mexico challenges indigenous peoples\u27 second-class status by ...
Over the past century, the Mexican government has continued to reproduce dominant, colonial relation...
Most exogenous developmental models have not provided satisfactory results in indigenous settings. T...
A partir des pratiques éducatives des paysans zapatistes du Chiapas, l’autonomie se conceptualise co...
textGrounded in the geographies of Chiapas, Mexico, the dissertation maps a cartography of Zapatista...
January 2004 marked the tenth anniversary of the uprising of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Na...
Indigenous communities in Mexico have not achieved the desired response in meeting their demands and...
In the following contribution I analyze the emergence of a new indigenous self-government model at a...
Wolfesberger P. Processes of Territorialization in Mexico. Conflict and Society. 2019;5(1):41-54.Cur...
Observa-se nas últimas três décadas a emergência política de diversas organizações indígenas nos paí...
Since the constitutional reform of 1992, which allows the privatization of ejidal lands, investment ...
This paper analyses the role that federal and local elites played in the transformation of a non-vio...
Se explora el caso de la comunidad indígena de Cherán (México) con el objetivo de analizar el proces...
Over the past two decades, indigenous groups across Latin America have been demanding and obtaining ...