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Without History - Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History (Paperback)
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Without History - Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History (Paperback)
Series: Illuminations
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On December 22, 1997, forty-five unarmed members of the indigenous
organization Las Abejas (The Bees) were massacred during a prayer
meeting in the village of Acteal, Mexico. The members of Las
Abejas, who are pacifists, pledged their support to the Zapatista
Army of National Liberation, a primarily indigenous group that has
declared war on the state of Mexico. The massacre has been
attributed to a paramilitary group composed of ordinary citizens
acting on their own, although eyewitnesses claim the attack was
planned ahead of time and that the Mexican government was
complicit. In Without History, Jos\u00e9 Rabasa contrasts
indigenous accounts of the Acteal massacre and other events with
state attempts to frame the past, control subaltern populations,
and legitimatize its own authority. Rabasa offers new
interpretations of the meaning of history from indigenous
perspectives and develops the concept of a communal temporality
that is not limited by time, but rather exists within the
individual, community, and culture as a living knowledge that links
both past and present. Due to a disconnection between indigenous
and state accounts as well as the lack of archival materials (many
of which were destroyed by missionaries), the indigenous remain
outside of, or without, history, according to most of Western
discourse. The continued practice of redefining native history
perpetuates the subalternization of that history, and maintains the
specter of fabrication over reality. Rabasa recalls the works of
Marx, Lenin, and Gramsci, as well as contemporary south Asian
subalternists Ranajit Guha and Dipesh Chakrabarty, among others. He
incorporates their conceptions of communality, insurgency,
resistance to hegemonic governments, and the creation of autonomous
spaces as strategies employed by indigenous groups around the
globe, but goes further in defining these strategies as millennial
and deeply rooted in Mesoamerican antiquity. For Rabasa, these
methods and the continuum of ancient indigenous consciousness are
evidenced in present day events such as the Zapatista insurrection.
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