Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century

KARA DELLACIOPPA Professor of Sociology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, USA. CLARE WEBER Chair of the Department of Sociology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, USA.

'Zapatismo lives! That is the message brought to us from the authors and subjects of this book, who in a variety of inventive ways, on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border, live life with dignity, joy, and confidence in the future. Here we find hip-hop artists, do-it-yourself communities, radical single moms, organized tomato pickers, Chicano student activists, outspoken teenage girls, undocumented immigrants, feminist peasants, striking teachers, indigenous corn farmers, and others lots of others - who walk with the Zapatistas, building community and sometimes winning victories but always creating love. Here we find voices speaking from the heart, from their real selves, about a world in which many worlds fit. We should all listen, and with care.' -John Foran 'This valuable compilation of fresh narratives offers an inside look at Mexican/US grassroots movements formed by women, peasants, indigenous people, and others inspired by zapatismo as a cultural and political practice creating autonomous spaces as part of a movement of 'globalization from below.' In an era when the logic of the global market is presented as inexorable, this book is an important reminder of the power and agency of community-based organizing.' - Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor, Department of Political Science, Eastern Michigan University

• Local Communities and Global Resistance: Social Change and Autonomy Struggles in the Americas; K.Dellacioppa  PART I: CULTURAL RESISTANCE AND IDENTITY  New Political Actors in Rural Mexico: The Challenges and Achievements of Indigeneosu and Peasant Women; A.H.Castillo  & G. E.Damian   The Rebel Girls of the Other Campaign: The EZLN and Teenage Activism in Mexico City; J.Taft  Zapatismo and Community-Based Social Change: Toward a Feminist Global Praxis?; M.Govea   La Otra Educación: Hip Hop, Zapatismo, and Popular Education; O.Marquez   PART II: POLITICAL RESISTANCE AND IDENTITY Maíz y País: Indigenous Mexican Struggles against Biotechnology in Agriculture; J.Rogers  Generating Hope, Creating Change,  Searching for Community: Stories of Resistance against Globalization at the U.S.-Mexico Border; M.Téllez   The Nonprofit Industrial Complex: Struggling for Social Movement Autonomy in a Global Port City; C.Weber   Present in the World Economy: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (2006-2009); A.Drainville   Global Movements? Local Movements? ; C.Weber