Las Abejas: Pacifist Resistance and Syncretic Identities in a Globalizing Chiapas

ISBN-13: 9780415942157 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 302 str.

Marco Tavanti; Morco Tavanti; Tavanti Tavanti

Opis

Las Abejas (the Bees) is a Christian pacifist indigenous organization. Sociedad Civil Las Abejas gained the attention of the international community in 1997, when Mexican paramilitary forces brutally massacred 45 organization members during mass at a Catholic church.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Series Editors' Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Acronyms and Abbreviations Chapter 1: Las Abejas and the Acteal Massacre Chapter 2: Methodological and Theoretical Frameworks Chapter 3: The Struggle for Land and Dignity in Chiapas Chapter 4: The Juxtaposed Meanings of Acteal Chapter 5: The Cultural and Religious Frameworks of Las Abejas Chapter 6: The Political and Human Rights Frameworks of Las Abejas Chapter 7: Las Abejas' Construction of Nonviolent Resistance Chapter 8: A Syncretic Identity of Resistance Conclusion: Never Again a World without Us Glossary Notes References Index

O autorze

Marco Tavanti is a sociologist at Loyola University Chicago. He has worked in Chiapas with the International Service for Peace and collaborated with numerous international nongovernmental organizations and Christian pacifist organizations in Italy, Brazil, Mozambique and Bosnia-Herzegovina.