Filiberto Penados
Biographic Data
| ID | 238147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Filiberto Penados |
| GIVEN NAMES | Filiberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Penados |
| SIGNATURE | PENADOS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Galen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6677-5595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Snapshots of Maya Self-determination in Southern Belize: For Q’eqchi’ and Mopan communities of Toledo District, resisting land grabs and stewarding the commons are central to struggles to protect terr…
The lands of San Jose village, one of 41 Maya villages in southern Belize. (ALL PHOTOS BY ROBERTO KUS)MOPAN: Ulu’um San Jose, hump’eel tuyaam ah 41 peet tika’ ichiloo uyamil ahMaaya.Q’EQCHI’: Lix c
Class processes and agrarian change in southern Belize, 1981–2020
Environmental and agrarian changes are proceeding rapidly in southern Belize. Despite common recognition of these changes, little research has attempted to examine the class processes involved in social and environmental change. We trace how capitalism has transformed household reproduction over the past four decades, focusing on two key pathways by which these changes unfold: the commercialization of land use and the education of the labour forc…
Introduction: From liberal bystanding to emancipatory praxis
Critical consciousness and praxis
Gender justice and social reproduction
Chapter 8 focuses on how the domain of social reproduction is a necessary political terrain on which to organise for widespread change and just social relations. More expressly, the chapter demonstrates how social reproduction, which includes care work, community building, provisioning and all the work that perpetuates life, can be intentionally foregrounded as a strategic site of anti-capitalist, anti-colonial and anti-heteropatriarchal struggle…
A world where many worlds fit
Chapter 2 offers readers a detailed introduction to the Zapatistas and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN). It provides a genealogy of the Zapatista uprising in 1994, as well as expanding on how the movement continues to engage in resistance and is practising self-determination in the face of neoliberalism and authoritarian state power. The chapter also discusses some of the principles that …
Modernity-coloniality and Indigenous realities
Political education and radical pedagogy
Chapter 7 illustrates how Zapatista communities are placing dignity, collectivity, defiance and selflessness at the heart of their social relations, economy and autonomous education system. The chapter offers an insight into the genesis of the Zapatista rebellion along with a detailed overview of how grassroots political education operates in Zapatista communities. After historicising the EZLN’s uprising in 1994, the chapter demonstrates how Indi…
A battle for the soul of education
The coloniser’s model/neoliberal state of the world
Index
Health, food sovereignty, solidarity economies
Dispossession, extractivism and violence
A Beginner’s Guide to Building Better Worlds: Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas
This ambitious book offers radical alternatives to conventional ways of thinking about the planet’s most pressing challenges, ranging from alienation and exploitation to state violence and environmental injustice. Bridging real-world examples of resistance and mutual aid in Zapatista territory with big-picture concepts like critical consciousness, social reproduction and decolonisation, the authors encourage readers to view themselves as co-creat…
Land, race, and (slow) violence: Indigenous resistance to racial capitalism and the coloniality of development in the Caribbean
This article, which has been informed by sustained engagement with an autonomous social movement and long-term participatory action research, offers a critical structural analysis of the Maya land struggle in Toledo District, Belize. We contend that state-sanctioned violations of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) reveal both the coloniality and misanthropic skepticism inherent in conventional ‘development’ agendas and the Westminster-model…
The violence of disavowing Indigenous governance: Exposing the colonial politics of "development" and FPIC in the Caribbean
After decades of community mobilizing and a protracted legal battle, Maya villages in southern Belize won a watershed Indigenous land rights victory in the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2015. Since then, the state has criminalized environmental defenders, violated communal land rights, and is argued by Maya activists and alcaldes (village leaders) to be operating in discriminatory bad faith. Accordingly, this Grassroots article casts critical lig…
Desire over damage: Epistemological shifts and anticolonial praxis from an indigenous-led community health project
This article offers an overview of an Indigenous-led participatory research project, The Future We Dream, co-developed by rural land defenders in Central America and the Caribbean. To engage in recent dialectics concerning complicity and decolonising methodologies, we centre Indigenous Maya conceptions of health, wellbeing and what 'living well' means to community members. For context, The Future We Dream responds to the 2015 landmark ruling made…
Joy Against the Machine, Building Better Futures
These flowers bring me joy. When I see them I remember how my parents and family and others treat me. It made me feel glad about my future in the world as a young girl. It looks bright––like how I
Indigenous resurgence, decolonial praxis, alternative futures: The Maya Leaders Alliance of Southern Belize
While most scholars working on resistance and decolonisation in Latin America and the Caribbean are familiar with the Zapatistas, far fewer have afforded committed attention to the parallel Maya land rights struggle and autonomous social movement in the region. Notably, a movement that is currently advancing in both Central America and the Caribbean, namely, Belize—a former colony of the British Crown. Accordingly, this piece offers a summary of …
Indigenous resurgence, decolonial praxis, alternative futures: The Maya Leaders Alliance of Southern Belize
While most scholars working on resistance and decolonisation in Latin America and the Caribbean are familiar with the Zapatistas, far fewer have afforded committed attention to the parallel Maya land rights struggle and autonomous social movement in the region. Notably, a movement that is currently advancing in both Central America and the Caribbean, namely, Belize—a former colony of the British Crown. Accordingly, this piece offers a summary of …
Land, race, and (slow) violence: Indigenous resistance to racial capitalism and the coloniality of development in the Caribbean
This article, which has been informed by sustained engagement with an autonomous social movement and long-term participatory action research, offers a critical structural analysis of the Maya land struggle in Toledo District, Belize. We contend that state-sanctioned violations of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) reveal both the coloniality and misanthropic skepticism inherent in conventional ‘development’ agendas and the Westminster-model…
Indigenous resurgence, decolonial praxis, alternative futures: The Maya Leaders Alliance of Southern Belize
While most scholars working on resistance and decolonisation in Latin America and the Caribbean are familiar with the Zapatistas, far fewer have afforded committed attention to the parallel Maya land rights struggle and autonomous social movement in the region. Notably, a movement that is currently advancing in both Central America and the Caribbean, namely, Belize—a former colony of the British Crown. Accordingly, this piece offers a summary of …
Joy Against the Machine, Building Better Futures
These flowers bring me joy. When I see them I remember how my parents and family and others treat me. It made me feel glad about my future in the world as a young girl. It looks bright––like how I
Introduction: From liberal bystanding to emancipatory praxis
Critical consciousness and praxis
Gender justice and social reproduction
Chapter 8 focuses on how the domain of social reproduction is a necessary political terrain on which to organise for widespread change and just social relations. More expressly, the chapter demonstrates how social reproduction, which includes care work, community building, provisioning and all the work that perpetuates life, can be intentionally foregrounded as a strategic site of anti-capitalist, anti-colonial and anti-heteropatriarchal struggle…
A world where many worlds fit
Chapter 2 offers readers a detailed introduction to the Zapatistas and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN). It provides a genealogy of the Zapatista uprising in 1994, as well as expanding on how the movement continues to engage in resistance and is practising self-determination in the face of neoliberalism and authoritarian state power. The chapter also discusses some of the principles that …
Modernity-coloniality and Indigenous realities
Political education and radical pedagogy
Chapter 7 illustrates how Zapatista communities are placing dignity, collectivity, defiance and selflessness at the heart of their social relations, economy and autonomous education system. The chapter offers an insight into the genesis of the Zapatista rebellion along with a detailed overview of how grassroots political education operates in Zapatista communities. After historicising the EZLN’s uprising in 1994, the chapter demonstrates how Indi…
A battle for the soul of education
The coloniser’s model/neoliberal state of the world
Index
Health, food sovereignty, solidarity economies
Dispossession, extractivism and violence
A Beginner’s Guide to Building Better Worlds: Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas
This ambitious book offers radical alternatives to conventional ways of thinking about the planet’s most pressing challenges, ranging from alienation and exploitation to state violence and environmental injustice. Bridging real-world examples of resistance and mutual aid in Zapatista territory with big-picture concepts like critical consciousness, social reproduction and decolonisation, the authors encourage readers to view themselves as co-creat…
Land, race, and (slow) violence: Indigenous resistance to racial capitalism and the coloniality of development in the Caribbean
This article, which has been informed by sustained engagement with an autonomous social movement and long-term participatory action research, offers a critical structural analysis of the Maya land struggle in Toledo District, Belize. We contend that state-sanctioned violations of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) reveal both the coloniality and misanthropic skepticism inherent in conventional ‘development’ agendas and the Westminster-model…
The violence of disavowing Indigenous governance: Exposing the colonial politics of "development" and FPIC in the Caribbean
After decades of community mobilizing and a protracted legal battle, Maya villages in southern Belize won a watershed Indigenous land rights victory in the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2015. Since then, the state has criminalized environmental defenders, violated communal land rights, and is argued by Maya activists and alcaldes (village leaders) to be operating in discriminatory bad faith. Accordingly, this Grassroots article casts critical lig…
Desire over damage: Epistemological shifts and anticolonial praxis from an indigenous-led community health project
This article offers an overview of an Indigenous-led participatory research project, The Future We Dream, co-developed by rural land defenders in Central America and the Caribbean. To engage in recent dialectics concerning complicity and decolonising methodologies, we centre Indigenous Maya conceptions of health, wellbeing and what 'living well' means to community members. For context, The Future We Dream responds to the 2015 landmark ruling made…
Snapshots of Maya Self-determination in Southern Belize: For Q’eqchi’ and Mopan communities of Toledo District, resisting land grabs and stewarding the commons are central to struggles to protect terr…
The lands of San Jose village, one of 41 Maya villages in southern Belize. (ALL PHOTOS BY ROBERTO KUS)MOPAN: Ulu’um San Jose, hump’eel tuyaam ah 41 peet tika’ ichiloo uyamil ahMaaya.Q’EQCHI’: Lix c
Class processes and agrarian change in southern Belize, 1981–2020
Environmental and agrarian changes are proceeding rapidly in southern Belize. Despite common recognition of these changes, little research has attempted to examine the class processes involved in social and environmental change. We trace how capitalism has transformed household reproduction over the past four decades, focusing on two key pathways by which these changes unfold: the commercialization of land use and the education of the labour forc…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Maya (5 works)