Politics, Identity, and Mexico's Indigenous Rights Movements

by Todd A. Eisenstadt

Book Overview

Drawing on an original survey of more than 5,000 respondents, this book argues that, contrary to claims by the 1994 Zapatista insurgency, indigenous and non-indigenous respondents in southern Mexico have been united by socioeconomic conditions and land tenure institutions as well as by ethnic identity. It concludes that - contrary to many analyses of Chiapas's 1994 indigenous rebellion - external influences can trump ideology in framing social movements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107696763
• ISBN13: 9781107696761
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"