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In Juchitán, Mexico, a poor people's movement has challenged the local and national authorities of the Mexican government, withstood violent repression and military occupation, and succeeded in winning municipal elections and becoming a permanent leftist force in regional politics. This movement, the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI), is one of the strongest and most militant grassroots movements in Mexico, in large part because Zapotec Indians in Juchitán transformed their courtyards and fiestas into fora for intense political discussion, gathered in the streets in massive demonstrations, and, in the course of the past two decades, redefined the activites, meanings and alliancesof therie culture.

Traces origins and development of the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI), regrouping Zapotec Indians in Oaxaca state, Mexico.

In the early 1970s, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) explored the possibility of establishing a regional history studies section within the Institute for Historical Research (IHR), which was founded in 1969. At the helm as director was a military historian, Commandant C.M. Bakkes. After the institute had been founded, a few young upcoming historians were appointed under his leadership. One of the early appointments was Mr (later Dr) Arie Oberholster. He was expected to be the driving force behind the IHR's planned regional studies section. Because the initiative was only a proposal (although passionately driven) in a still empty vessel, the IHR tasked Oberholster to explore, observe and learn from the international community in Europe and the USA. He did so for three months in 1974. Oberholster's insights, and the efforts of his counterpart Dr C.C. (Callie) Eloff, formed the cornerstone upon which the IHR's Section for Urban and Regional History was based shortly after July 1974. This discussion is in essence a recapitulation of this first formal initiative in South Africa to pioneer research in the field of regional history studies. It reveals how international thinking and doing helped to shape the early leadership's thinking about research in this comprehensive and challenging but exciting field of regional history. It is unfortunate that the IHR and all its activities were closed down in the early 1990s. This action brought constructive regional history studies to a standstill, and ended an initiative which could have flourished in the modern social history of South Africa. It has been suggested that the firm foundation from which regional history studies departed in the former IHR of the HSRC (ideas, planning, research capacity, networking, publication, education and methodology) should be re-instated and continued in a newly created historical institute or regional institute with a much broader and deeper scope of regional history studies than any effort that has been made since the IHR was closed. If this is not done, South Africa will continue to lose valuable historical memory daily among black, white, coloured, Indian and other communities in all the provincial regions of the country. ; http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/hist/hist_v59_n1_a7.pdf

El trabajo aporta algunas cuestiones que hacen al quehacer y a la construcción de la Historia Regional asumiendo que, como a toda historia crítica, se le abren múltiples posibilidades analíticas, metodológicas y de aplicación. Una de las cuestiones que interesa está referida a espacio y poder como sugerente supuesto básico de la Historia Regional. Se entiende que para ello conviene situarse en el presente para posicionarse en los tiempos históricos que transcurren. A partir de este posicionamiento preguntarse sobre ¿cómo pensar la conformación histórica de una región?, ¿cómo definirla teniendo en cuenta los componentes internos?, ¿qué núcleos la constituyen?, ¿cómo se articulan en el tiempo y el espacio? ¿coincide el espacio geográfico con el espacio social? Finalmente, entre las propuestas para una Historia Regional crítica se plantea tener en cuenta el concepto de tiempo interno, las renovaciones en la historia política y en la social y el abordaje de los enfoques comparativo e interdisciplinario. ; This paper presents some issues relative to the work and construction of Regional History assuming that, as with every critical history, multiple application, methodological and analytical possibilities unfold. One of the issues of interest refers to space and power as a suggestive basic assumption of Regional History. We consider that for that matter it is convenient to situate oneself in the present in order to position oneself in the current historical times. And from this positioning ask oneself: How to think the historical conformation of a region? How to define it bearing in mind its internal components? What nuclei constitute it? How do they articulate in time and space? Does the geographical space coincide with the social space? Finally, among the proposals for a critical Regional History, we postulate to take into account the concept of internal time, the changes in social and in political history, and the perspective of the comparative and interdisciplinary approaches. ; Fil: Areces, Nidia. ...