Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century: Community-Based Social Movements and Global Change in the Americas PDF
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Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century Community-Based Social Movements and Global Change in the Americas Edited by Kara Z. Dellacioppa and Clare Weber cultural politics and resistance in the 21st century Copyright © Kara Z. Dellacioppa and Clare Weber, 2012. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-0-230-34004-6 All rights reserved. First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-34260-0 ISBN 978-1-137-01296-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137012968 Chapter 7 was previously published in Re-inventing Critical Pedagogy: Widening the Circle of Anti-Oppression Education, eds. César Augusto Rossatto, Ricky Lee Allen, and Marc Pruyn (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 225–34, and is reprinted with permission. Chapter 9 was previously published in Globalizations 5, no. 3 (September 2008): 357–77, and is also reprinted with permission. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Cultural politics and resistance in the 21st century : community based social movements and global change in the Americas / edited by Kara Z. Dellacioppa and Clare Weber. p. cm. 1. Social movements— United States. 2. Social movements— Mexico. 3. Social change— United States. 4. Social change— Mexico. 5. Political culture— United States. 6. Political culture— Mexico. I. Dellacioppa, Kara Zugman, 1969– II. Weber, Clare, 1963– HN65.C833 2011 303.48’4097209051— dc23 2011025825 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: January 2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Felix Aguilar, René Aguilar- Weber, Joey Dellacioppa, and Sofia Alexis Dellacioppa Contents 1 Local Communities and Global Resistance: Social Change and Autonomy Struggles in the Americas 1 Kara Z. Dellacioppa Part I Cultural Resistance and Identity 21 2 New Political Actors in Rural Mexico: The Challenges and Achievements of Peasant and Indigenous Women 23 Aída Hernández Castillo and Gisela Espinosa Damian 3 The Rebel Girls of the Other Campaign: The EZLN and Teenage Activism in Mexico City 49 Jessica K. Taft 4 Zapatismo and Community- Based Social Change: Toward a Feminist Global Praxis? 61 Melissa N. Govea 5 La Otra Educación: Hip- Hop, Zapatismo, and Popular Education 79 Oscar Marquez Part II Political Resistance and Identity 99 6 Maíz y País: Indigenous Mexican Struggles against Biotechnology in Agriculture 101 Jennifer Rogers 7 Generating Hope, Creating Change, Searching for Community: Stories of Resistance against Globalization at the U.S.– Mexico Border 117 Michelle Téllez 8 Struggles for Social Movement Autonomy in a Global Port City 127 Clare Weber 9 Present in the World Economy: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (1996– 2007) 145 André C. Drainville viii CONTENTS Conclusion: Local Movements? Global Movements? 177 Clare Weber Notes on Contributors 181 Index 185 1 Local Communities and Global Resistance Social Change and Autonomy Struggles in the Americas Kara Z. Dellacioppa Introduction: New Languages of Resistance to Globalization Over the last twenty years, we have witnessed an abundant growth of research on globalization.Within this vast body of work, studies have analyzed regional economic integration and debated the shifting role of the nation-s tate (Robinson 2001; Wade 2003), the globalization of produc- tion (Gereffi and Korzeniewicz 1994), and global citizenship (Sassen 2005). By the late 1990s, social movements had emerged as a central research topic of globalization (Keck and Sikkink 1998; Smith and Bandy 2005; Della Porta and Tarrow 2005) that included a prolific body of scholarship on the impact of neoliberalism on Latin American social movements (Esco- bar and Alvarez 1992). However, it wasn’t until the Battle of Seattle in 1999 that a global (but diverse) “movement of movements” (Mertes 2004) emerged, working to understand, combat, and possibly transform the “glo- balization project” (McMichael 2000; Epstein 2001). Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s “Empire” (2000) was widely read in leftist academic and activist circles and was considered the most “optimistic” reading of global- ization.Their descriptions of the cacophonous revolts of the “multitude” included all movements from the Hamas of the Gaza Strip to the Land- less Movement of Brazil (without making much distinction between the two). However, their reading of the current global climate, while innova- tive, lacked an empirical analysis of social movements and of the structure
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