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Intimate Enemies - Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas (Paperback)
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Intimate Enemies - Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas (Paperback)
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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. Weaving together
ethnography, archival research, and cultural history, Bobrow-Strain
argues that prior to the upheavals of 1994 landowners were already
squeezed between increasingly organized indigenous activism and
declining political and economic support from the Mexican state. He
demonstrates that indigenous mobilizations that began in 1994
challenged not just the economy of estate agriculture but also
landowners' understandings of progress, masculinity, ethnicity, and
indigenous docility. By scrutinizing the elites' responses to land
invasions in relation to the cultural politics of race, class, and
gender, Bobrow-Strain provides timely insights into policy debates
surrounding the recent global resurgence of peasant land reform
movements. At the same time, he rethinks key theoretical frameworks
that have long guided the study of agrarian politics by engaging
political economy and critical human geography's insights into the
production of space. Describing how a carefully defended world of
racial privilege, political dominance, and landed monopoly came
unglued, Intimate Enemies is a remarkable account of how power
works in the countryside.
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