Sabemos a lo que vamos y que vale la pena : um estudo sobre a resistência zapatista à globalização (1994-2008)

Abstract

This essay has as theme the resistance of indigenous people self designated Zapatistas to the imposition of a new world order that currently answers by the name of globalization. As the title itself suggests, it deals with an approach interested in understanding the bet of these indigenous people, before a global process that threatens their ways of living and insists on leaving them on the fringes of the wealth that is produced. The main objective of this work is to consider, by means of the analysis of content of narrative texts produced by the Zapatistas, the resistance (here understood as a way of fighting) of this subordinate group and its ways of generalization. We also dedicate ourselves to show that it is not a single criticism to globalization, but a way of fighting constructed by a minority group which reveals itself in the control of spaces, no matter physical, symbolic or discursive ones; in the development of integrative actions, by means of approaching to other groups and of interlocution with the civil society; and, as well, in the construction of spaces of representation that involve the recognition and the reclaim of the identity referential (material and symbolic), in the enlargement of the political participation, in the exercise of autonomy and of autonomous governments according to their own normative codes and in the construction and reworking of representations of themselves and of the world. Lastly, a fight that comes from an issue to the hegemonic globalization, but that marches to a transformation in the power relations, so as a new world can exist.