Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas

Rights in Rebellion examines the global discourse of human rights and its influence on the local culture, identity, and forms of resistance. Through a multi-sited ethnography of various groups in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico--from paramilitaries to a Zapatista community, an indigenous human rights organization, and the Zapatista Good Governance Councils--the book explores how different groups actively engage with the discourse of rights, adapting it to their own individual subjectivities and goals, and develop new forms of resistance to the neoliberal model and its particular configurations of power.

Far from being a traditional community study, this book instead follows the discourse of human rights and indigenous rights through their various manifestations. The author offers a compelling argument for the importance of a critical engagement between the anthropologist and her subjects, passionately making the case for activist research and demonstrating how such an engagement will fortify and enliven academic research.

Author: Shannon Speed
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 11/21/2007
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780804757331

About the Author
Shannon Speed is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is coeditor of Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas (2006).