Resistance in zapatista discourse: classifications of “humanity”

This article is based on research examining the discourses of the Zapatista Movement. Initially characterized as an armed insurgency composed of Mayan Indians, this movement owes a part of its visibility to its writings, which have circulated globally via the Internet. The objective of this analysis...

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Main Author: Júnia Marúsia Trigueiro de Lima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2009-12-01
Series:Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais
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Online Access:http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/4530
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Summary:This article is based on research examining the discourses of the Zapatista Movement. Initially characterized as an armed insurgency composed of Mayan Indians, this movement owes a part of its visibility to its writings, which have circulated globally via the Internet. The objective of this analysis involves clarifying the relationship between domination and resistance in these writings. It is based on an attempt to consider ways in which the discourse synthesizes an emic classification in a duality that speaks to the human condition itself. In this sense, the classification of those who exert “domination” is not focused on institutional powers, but on their processes of disseminating the “inhumane.” Moreover, “resisters” are classified by the ultimate value of being human, “to have dignity”.
ISSN:2176-6665