Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Local Communities and Global Resistance

   1. Local Communities and Global Resistance

      • Kara Z. Dellacioppa

      Pages 1-19

3. Cultural Resistance and Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. New Political Actors in Rural Mexico

      • Aída Hernández Castillo, Gisela Espinosa Damian

      Pages 23-48

   3. The Rebel Girls of the Other Campaign

      • Jessica K. Taft

      Pages 49-60

   4. Zapatismo and Community-Based Social Change

      • Melissa N. Govea

      Pages 61-77

   5. La Otra Educación

      • Oscar Marquez

      Pages 79-98

4. Political Resistance and Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. Maíz y País

      • Jennifer Rogers

      Pages 101-116

   3. Generating Hope, Creating Change, Searching for Community

      • Michelle Téllez

      Pages 117-126

   4. Struggles for Social Movement Autonomy in a Global Port City

      • Clare Weber

      Pages 127-143

   5. Present in the World Economy

      • André C. Drainville

      Pages 145-176

   6. Local Movements? Global Movements?

      • Clare Weber

      Pages 177-180

5. Back Matter

   Pages 181-195

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By analyzing the cases present in this volume, the editors develop important steps towards a theory of social change that can adequately address the complex realities and intersectionality of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality) within and among these new movements.

• autonomy
• community
• economy
• feminism
• gender
• globalization
• identity
• Nation
• nationality
• politics
• social change
• women

'Zapatismo lives! That is the message brought to us from the authors and subjects of this book, who in a variety of inventive ways, on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border, live life with dignity, joy, and confidence in the future. Here we find hip-hop artists, do-it-yourself communities, radical single moms, organized tomato pickers, Chicano student activists, outspoken teenage girls, undocumented immigrants, feminist peasants, striking teachers, indigenous corn farmers, and others lots of others - who walk with the Zapatistas, building community and sometimes winning victories but always creating love. Here we find voices speaking from the heart, from their real selves, about a world in which many worlds fit. We should all listen, and with care.' -John Foran

'This valuable compilation of fresh narratives offers an inside look at Mexican/US grassroots movements formed by women, peasants, indigenous people, and others inspired by zapatismo as a cultural and political practice creating autonomous spaces as part of a movement of 'globalization from below.' In an era when the logic of the global market is presented as inexorable, this book is an important reminder of the power and agency of community-based organizing.' - Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor, Department of Political Science, Eastern Michigan University

KARA DELLACIOPPA Professor of Sociology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, USA.
CLARE WEBER Chair of the Department of Sociology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, USA. 

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