"Never again a Mexico without us": Education and indigenous autonomy struggles in Mexico
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2019
Department/School
Political Science
Publication Title
Educational Alternatives in Latin America: New Modes of Counter-Hegemonic Learning
Abstract
Baronnet and Stahler-Sholk examine Zapatista practices of constructing de facto autonomy. They highlight the pedagogical politics of a movement in which the community is a kind of school, with indigenous peasants developing “militant capital” through the experience of decision making by assembly, rotating tasks of education and health promotion, and building anticapitalist solidarity economies. Zapatista prefigurative politics extend beyond their immediate communities with outreach such as the “Other Campaign” and grassroots consultations coordinated with the National Indigenous Congress. They also show how Zapatista autonomous schools embody a political pedagogy around the project of education for autonomy, based on decolonial validation of indigenous knowledge that challenges neoliberal multiculturalism.
Recommended Citation
Baronnet, B., & Stahler-Sholk, R. (2019). “Never again a Mexico without us”: Education and indigenous autonomy struggles in Mexico. In R. Aman & T. Ireland (Eds.), Educational alternatives in Latin America (pp. 63–87). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53450-3_4
Comments
R. Stahler-Sholk is a faculty member in EMU's Department of Political Science.