Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century : Community-Based Social Movements and Global Change in the Americas

By analyzing the cases present in this volume, the editors develop important steps towards a theory of social change that can adequately address the complex realities and intersectionality of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality) within and among these new movements. Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century demonstrates that twenty-first-century social struggles organize themselves around a distinct set of political discourses and practices. By analyzing the cases present in this volume, the editors develop important steps towards a theory of social change that can adequately address the complex realities and intersectionality of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality) within and among these new movements Front Matter....Pages i-viii Local Communities and Global Resistance....Pages 1-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 New Political Actors in Rural Mexico....Pages 23-48 The Rebel Girls of the Other Campaign....Pages 49-60 Zapatismo and Community-Based Social Change....Pages 61-77 La Otra Educación....Pages 79-98 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 Maíz y País....Pages 101-116 Generating Hope, Creating Change, Searching for Community....Pages 117-126 Struggles for Social Movement Autonomy in a Global Port City....Pages 127-143 Present in the World Economy....Pages 145-176 Local Movements? Global Movements?....Pages 177-180 Back Matter....Pages 181-195