{"product_id":"the-zapatista-experience-rebellion-resistance-and-autonomy-9781849355704","title":"The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the Zapatista project, from its conception to the present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the thirtieth anniversary of the Mayan Indigenous uprising in Chiapas, \u003ci\u003eThe Zapatista Experience\u003c\/i\u003e reconstructs the trajectory of the Zapatista struggle over the last three decades, both in its concrete achievements and in its contributions to the renewal of critical and antisystemic thinking. The Zapatista rebellion has become a reference and source of inspiration for many struggles around the world due to its major contribution in reformulating a credible and desirable path to emancipation, a path that broke with previously dominant conceptions: state-centric, productivist, Eurocentric, modernist, and patriarchal. Baschet demonstrates how the Zapatistas have succeeded in materializing, on a massive scale, the concrete experience of another way of living, a forerunner of possible emerging worlds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe autonomous rebel territories of Chiapas are among the most developed and radical of the \"real utopias\" that exist in the world today, exceptional in their experiments in self-governance and anti-State political form, argues Jérôme Baschet. \u003ci\u003eThe Zapatista Experience\u003c\/i\u003e orients readers in the profusion of Zapatista writings concerning, for example, the elaboration of a different understanding of politics, the Zapatistas' planetary conjunctural analysis of capitalism as a total war against humanity, their conception of Indigeneity that breaks with both modernist individualism and identity politics, and their notion of time and history. All this in clear opposition to neoliberal capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ?r?me Baschet\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian teaching at the ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas in San Crist?bal de las Casas. In studying the Zapatista struggle he found a tangible example of a real utopia and a powerful source of inspiration both for rethinking his work as a historian and to reopen critical reflections on possible post-capitalist worlds. Baschet is the author of a dozen books. \u003ci\u003eThe Zapatista Experience\u003c\/i\u003e is the first of his books to be translated into English.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTraductores Rebeldes Aut?nomos Cronopios\u003c\/b\u003e (TRAC) is a group of US-based, radical translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878180589842,"sku":"9781849355704","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_80087f76-7673-4e52-bbd5-20dd032065c3.jpg?v=1738179582","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-zapatista-experience-rebellion-resistance-and-autonomy-9781849355704","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}