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Intimate Enemies

Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

Autor: Aaron Bobrow-Strain

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Editura: Duke University Press

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"Intimate Enemies" is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the lan...

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Autor

Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2007

Pagini

288

EAN

9780822339878

ISBN

0822339870

Enbook ID

04938531

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

544

Dimensiuni

161 x 238 x 23

Descriere completă

"Intimate Enemies" is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, a crucial but almost entirely unexamined actor in the state's violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as 'bad guys' with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes the landowners of Chiapas seriously, asking why coffee planters and cattle ranchers with a long and storied history of violent responses to agrarian conflict reacted to land invasions triggered by the Zapatista Rebellion of 1994 with quiescence and resignation rather than thugs and guns. In the process, he offers a unique ethnographic and historical glimpse into conflicts that have been understood almost exclusively through studies of indigenous people and movements. Weaving together ethnography, archival research, and cultural history, Bobrow-Strain argues that prior to the upheavals of 1994 landowners were already squeezed between increasingly organized indigenous activism and declining political and economic support from the Mexican state. He demonstrates that indigenous mobilizations that began in 1994 challenged not just the economy of estate agriculture but also landowners' understandings of progress, masculinity, whiteness, and indigenous docility. By tracing the elites' responses to land invasions deep into the cultural politics of race, class, and gender, Bobrow-Strain provides timely insights into policy debates surrounding the recent global resurgence of peasant land reform movements. At the same time, he rethinks key theoretical frameworks that have long guided the study of agrarian politics by engaging political economy and critical human geography's insights into the production of space. Describing how a carefully defended world of racial privilege, political dominance, and landed monopoly came unglued, "Intimate Enemies" is a remarkable account of how power works in the countryside.