Kuxlejal Politics INDIGENOUS AUTONOMY, RACE, AND DECOLONIZING RESEARCH IN ZAPATISTA COMMUNITIES MARIANA MORA: Kuxlejal Politics MARIANA ; MorRA : Indigenous Autonomy, Race, : and Decolonizing Research in : Zapatista Communities | “yp | University of Texas Press Austin |Copyright © 2017 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2017 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 utpress.utexas.edu/rp-form © ‘The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/N1SO 239.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Mora Bayo, Mariana, author. Title: Kuxlejal politics : indigenous autonomy, race, and decolonizing research in Zapatista communities / Mariana Mora. Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017. \ Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017017819 | ISBN 978-1-4773-1446-3 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-4773-1447-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-4773-1448-7 (ibrary e-book) | 1SBN 978-1-4773-1449-4 (nonlibrary e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Indians of Mexico—Mexico—Chiapas— Government relations. | Indians of Mexico—Mexico—Chiapas —Social conditions. | Social movements —Mexico—Chiapas—History. | Chiapas (Mexico) — History—Peasant Uprising, 1994~ | Indians of Mexico—Political activity —Mexico—Chiapas —History. | Peasants —Political activity— Mexico—Chiapas— History. | Representative government and representation— Mexico—History. | Chiapas (Mexico) — Politics and government —2oth century. | Chiapas (Mexico) —Politics and government —2:st century. Classification: LCC F1256 .M718 2017 | DDC 972/.75—de23 Lc record available at https: //lccn.loc.gov/2027017819 doi:10.7560/314463 To the future generations of Zapatista community members, in honor of the paths their parents and grandparents have walked and to Luis Felipe and our son, Camilo, whose presence is the horizon on which these pages are written