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Zapatista autonomy and the making of alter-native politics

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Since 1994, the Zapatista political autonomy project has been claiming that "another world is possible". Th is experience has infl uenced many intellectuals of contemporary radical social movements who see in the indigenous organization a new political alternative. I will fi rst explore some of the current theories on Zapatism and the crossing of some of authors into anarchist thought. Th e second part of the article draws on an ethnography conducted in the municipality of Chenalhó, in the highlands of Chiapas, to emphasize some of the everyday practices inside the self-proclaimed "autonomous municipality" of Polhó. As opposed to irenic theories on Zapatism, this article describes a peculiar process of autonomy and brings out some contradictions between the political discourse and the day-today practices of the autonomous power, focusing on three specifi c points linked to economic and political constraints in a context of political violence: the economic dependency on humanitarian aid and the "bureaucratic habitus"; the new "autonomous" leadership it involved, between "good government" and "good management"; and the internal divisions due to the return of some displaced members and the exit of international aid.
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hal-02567377 , version 1 (20-05-2020)

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Sabrina Melenotte. Zapatista autonomy and the making of alter-native politics. Focaal — Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2015, 2015 (72), pp.51-63. ⟨10.3167/fcl.2015.720105⟩. ⟨hal-02567377⟩
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