Resistance in zapatista discourse: classifications of “humanity”
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2009v14n2p267Keywords:
Zapatista discourses, Resistance, Humanity, DominationAbstract
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”.References
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SCOTT, James C. Weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
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LIMA, Júnia Marúsia Trigueiro de. Resistance in zapatista discourse: classifications of “humanity”. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 14, n. 2, p. 267–284, 2009. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2009v14n2p267. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/4530. Acesso em: 24 aug. 2024.
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