Zapatista Self-Government Experiences: Outline of an Analytical Grid
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https://doi.org/10.15517/hdgkgb63Keywords:
Governmentality, Criticism, Self-government, Experience, StateAbstract
Introduction: This article addresses zapatismo through its experiences of self-governance, as historical correlations between knowledge, power, and subjectivity (1994-2023). It encourages a critical exercise of thought that allows for the analysis of the processes of collective organization and zapatista struggle from a perspective of governmentality suggested by Foucault, intertwined with the ethnological references of Clastres, as well as the receptions of this by Viveiros de Castro, allowing us to think of power as technology, in a collective exercise of criticism.
Objective: Framed in contemporary political philosophy, this article aims to outline an analytical framework that, from a strategic conception of power, allows for addressing the heterogeneous experiences and self-governance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army from a critical perspective of governmentality.
Method: The method intertwines qualitative elements of analysis through a genealogical tracing of the effective history of the EZLN. From this, it is possible to identify the origins, the marks of history, and the multiple beginnings that configure the collective organization amidst continuous discontinuities. For this, historical archives and practical texts of the organization are retrieved, primarily using the official website and the written documents that reflect the reflections of the so-called Zapatista spokespeople as sources.
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