The Indigenous Movement in Mexico: Between Electoral Politics and Local Resistance

In: Latin American perspectives, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 115-131

Abstract

Taking as its starting point the response of indigenous organizations to the Zapatistas' so-called Otra Campaña (Other Campaign), this article reflects on the cultural politics of Mexico's indigenous movement and the tensions between local forms of resistance and the national strategies proposed by the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional.