1st Edition
Las Abejas Pacifist Resistance and Syncretic Identities in a Globalizing Chiapas
By Marco Tavanti
Copyright 2003
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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Las Abejas came to be known by the international community as the civil counterpart to the neozapatista movements and as a Christian pacifist movement. This book presents the voices of Las Abejas and of numerous collaborators alongside an innovative theoretical analysis of the dynamics of identity construction. The uniqueness of this study is the analysis of the role of international human rights... Read more
List of Illustrations Series Editors' Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Acronyms and Abbreviations Chapter 1: Las Abejas and the Acteal Massacre Chapter 2: Methodological and Theoretical Frameworks Chapter 3: The Struggle for Land and Dignity in Chiapas Chapter 4: The Juxtaposed Meanings of Acteal Chapter 5: The Cultural and Religious Frameworks of Las Abejas Chapter 6: The Political and Human Rights Frameworks of Las Abejas Chapter 7: Las Abejas' Construction of Nonviolent Resistance Chapter 8: A Syncretic Identity of Resistance Conclusion: Never Again a World without Us Glossary Notes References Index
Biography
Marco Tavanti is a sociologist at Loyola University Chicago. He has worked in Chiapas with the International Service for Peace and collaborated with numerous international nongovernmental organizations and Christian pacifist organizations in Italy, Brazil, Mozambique and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
