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Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

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Mexican History

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ISBN10: 0822339870
ISBN13: 9780822339878
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jun 27 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state's violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as bad guys with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes the landowners of Chiapas seriously, asking why coffee planters and cattle ranchers with a long and storied history of violent responses to agrarian conflict reacted to land invasions triggered by the Zapatista Rebellion of 1994 with quiescence and resignation rather than thugs and guns. In the process, he offers a unique ethnographic and historical glimpse into conflicts that have been understood almost exclusively through studies of indigenous people and movements.

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