Shannan Mattiace
Biographic Data
| ID | 814047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannan Mattiace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattiace |
| SIGNATURE | MATTIACE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Allegheny College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4653-9664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Indigenous autonomy and Latin American state security in contexts of criminal violence: The cases of Cauca in Colombia and Guerrero in Mexico
Scholars writing on Indigenous autonomy in the Americas have focused mainly on social movement demands and on the implementation of laws that enshrine autonomy rights. The motives of state officials in enacting de jure legislation on autonomy have received less scholarly attention. In this research note, we examine the Cauca region of southwestern Colombia and the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. Both regions have similar percentages of In…
State Responses to Autonomy Demands: Indigenous Movements and Regional Threats in Bolivia and Ecuador
In this paper, we examine the political factors that explain state responses to demands for indigenous territorial autonomy in Ecuador and Bolivia. Specifically, we aim to explain why the 2009 Bolivian constitution limited indigenous territorial autonomy to the departmental level, not allowing indigenous peoples to establish autonomous regions that lay beyond a single departmental jurisdiction, whereas the 2008 Ecuadorian constitution allows indi…
Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico
This article explains why some indigenous communities in Mexico have been able to resist drug cartels’ attempts to take over their local governments, populations, and territories while others have not. While indigenous customary laws and traditions provide communal accountability mechanisms that make it harder for narcos to take control, they are insufficient. Using a paired comparison of two indigenous regions in the highlands of Guerrero and Ch…
Internal Migration to Yucatán, Mexico: Moving for Security
Between 2000 and 2020, over one-third of the population increase of Yucatán’s capital city, Mérida, was due to the increase in the population born in another state in Mexico. Compared to the rest of Mexico and to Yucatán’s historical patterns, the growth in the out-of-state population during this time period has been unusual and dramatic. We focus on one explanation for this growth: the increase in criminal violence and insecurity in the rest of …
Yucatán as an Exception to Rising Criminal Violence in México
Yucatán state’s homicide level has remained low and steady for decades and criminal violence activity is low, even while crime rates in much of the rest of the country have increased since 2006. In this research note, we examine five main theoretical explanations for Yucatán's relative containment of violence: criminal competition, protection networks and party alternation, vertical partisan fragmentation, interagency coordination, and social coh…
Mexico 2018: Amlo's hour
In July 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was elected President of Mexico in the largest electoral landslide in Mexico's democratic history. As a self-proclaimed transformational candidate, AMLO made big promises in areas of great concern for Mexican citizens: anti-corruption, criminal violence and security, and the economy. Support for AMLO remained extremely strong in 2018; however, to retain that support he will need to make concrete pr…
Yucatec Maya Organizations in San Francisco, California: Ethnic Identity Formation Across Migrant Generations
Using results of field research among Yucatec Maya in San Francisco, we compare two types of migrant associations: hometown associations (HTAs) and social service agencies, specifically in terms of the use and expression of ethnic identity. We argue that HTA leaders rely on a regional identity based largely on a sense of shared culture, which reproduces the dominant and widespread view of ethnic identity in Yucatán, namely that the Maya are not a…
Reformas multiculturales para los mayas de Yucatán
En 2011 el Congreso yucateco aprobó la ley sobre derechos indígenas. En este trabajo argumentamos que las reformas multiculturales promulgadas en Yucatán hasta la fecha son el resultado de fuerzas de arriba hacia abajo, a nivel nacional, quehan presionado a los legisladores del estado a moverse en el área de los derechos indígenas. Las reformas multiculturales en Yucatán no son el resultado de la presión de bases. A pesar de la existencia de algu…
Willibald Sonnleitner Elecciones chiapanecas: Del Régimen Posrevolucionario Al Desorden Democrático
Elecciones Chiapanecas es un libro obligatorio para estudiantes y estudiosos interesados en la transicion democratica mexicana. Aunque el estado de Chiapas no figura entre los mas importantes a nivel nacional, tiene una de las poblaciones indigenas mas grandes del pais y es alli donde surgio el Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN), una de las organizaciones sociales mas significativas en la historia moderna mexicana, cosa que no se ti…
The Organization of Hacienda Labor during the Mexican Revolution: Evidence from Yucatán
Beginning in 1914, Yucatecan revolutionary governors promulgated a series of decrees that liberated and regulated labor on henequen haciendas. The first of these decrees banned debt peonage, immediately weakening the pre-revolutionary labor regime, which was based on a mixture of paternalism and coercion. Using census and hacienda data, we show how hacendados and workers adapted to institutional changes and market shocks, allowing output and inve…
Multicultural reforms for Mexico’s “tranquil” Indians in Yucatán
Yucatán was one of the last Mexican states to enact Indian rights legislation in the wake of the 2001 national constitutional changes, and is worthy of examination, as it has one of the largest number of indigenous language speakers in Mexico. Indian rights legislation in Yucatán, titled “The Law for the Protection of the Rights of the Maya Community”, was passed by the state congress in April 2011 and an implementing decree was approved in Decem…
Indigenous Politics, the State, and Civil Society in the Andes
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Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1915
The henequen boom coincided with the rule of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). During the boom, many Maya in Yucatan lost their rights to land and moved to henequen haciendas. As part of the implicit contract with hacendados , peons accumulated large debts at the time of marriage, most of which were never repaid. We argue that the debts bound workers to the hacienda as part of a system of paternalism and that more productive workers incurred more debt. …
Ethnic Mobilization among the Maya of Yucatán
While the literature on indigenous political mobilization in Latin America is now quite extensive, relatively little has been published on why ethnic mobilization has not occurred in some indigenous regions. In this article, I examine a case where there is very little mobilization and organization around ethnic identity: Yucatán, Mexico. I begin with a political history of Yucatán, comparing it with and contrasting it to Chiapas. I then argue tha…
Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change
Representation and Rights: Recent Scholarship on Social Movements in Latin America
Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America. Edited by Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley. (New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 346. $24.95 paper.) Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador. By Allen Gerlach. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003. Pp. 286. $65.00 cloth, $23.95 paper.) The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States. Edited by David Maybury-Lewis. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univers…
Forthcoming in Volume 40 Number 1
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Regional Renegotiations of Space: Tojolabal Ethnic Identity in Las Margaritas, Chiapas
In recent years, Indians of different ethnicities in Chiapas have come together in regional and national forums around a sense of shared Indian identity. Calls for Indian unity at these forums are based on common experiences of discrimination, lack of representation and power in the national political system, and the absence of government services in indigenous regions, as well as on the shared practice of communal work and similar decision-makin…
Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1915
The henequen boom coincided with the rule of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). During the boom, many Maya in Yucatan lost their rights to land and moved to henequen haciendas. As part of the implicit contract with hacendados , peons accumulated large debts at the time of marriage, most of which were never repaid. We argue that the debts bound workers to the hacienda as part of a system of paternalism and that more productive workers incurred more debt. …
Ethnic Mobilization among the Maya of Yucatán
While the literature on indigenous political mobilization in Latin America is now quite extensive, relatively little has been published on why ethnic mobilization has not occurred in some indigenous regions. In this article, I examine a case where there is very little mobilization and organization around ethnic identity: Yucatán, Mexico. I begin with a political history of Yucatán, comparing it with and contrasting it to Chiapas. I then argue tha…
Regional Renegotiations of Space: Tojolabal Ethnic Identity in Las Margaritas, Chiapas
In recent years, Indians of different ethnicities in Chiapas have come together in regional and national forums around a sense of shared Indian identity. Calls for Indian unity at these forums are based on common experiences of discrimination, lack of representation and power in the national political system, and the absence of government services in indigenous regions, as well as on the shared practice of communal work and similar decision-makin…
Mexico 2018: Amlo's hour
In July 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was elected President of Mexico in the largest electoral landslide in Mexico's democratic history. As a self-proclaimed transformational candidate, AMLO made big promises in areas of great concern for Mexican citizens: anti-corruption, criminal violence and security, and the economy. Support for AMLO remained extremely strong in 2018; however, to retain that support he will need to make concrete pr…
State Responses to Autonomy Demands: Indigenous Movements and Regional Threats in Bolivia and Ecuador
In this paper, we examine the political factors that explain state responses to demands for indigenous territorial autonomy in Ecuador and Bolivia. Specifically, we aim to explain why the 2009 Bolivian constitution limited indigenous territorial autonomy to the departmental level, not allowing indigenous peoples to establish autonomous regions that lay beyond a single departmental jurisdiction, whereas the 2008 Ecuadorian constitution allows indi…
Yucatán as an Exception to Rising Criminal Violence in México
Yucatán state’s homicide level has remained low and steady for decades and criminal violence activity is low, even while crime rates in much of the rest of the country have increased since 2006. In this research note, we examine five main theoretical explanations for Yucatán's relative containment of violence: criminal competition, protection networks and party alternation, vertical partisan fragmentation, interagency coordination, and social coh…
Representation and Rights: Recent Scholarship on Social Movements in Latin America
Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America. Edited by Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley. (New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 346. $24.95 paper.) Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador. By Allen Gerlach. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003. Pp. 286. $65.00 cloth, $23.95 paper.) The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States. Edited by David Maybury-Lewis. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univers…
Internal Migration to Yucatán, Mexico: Moving for Security
Between 2000 and 2020, over one-third of the population increase of Yucatán’s capital city, Mérida, was due to the increase in the population born in another state in Mexico. Compared to the rest of Mexico and to Yucatán’s historical patterns, the growth in the out-of-state population during this time period has been unusual and dramatic. We focus on one explanation for this growth: the increase in criminal violence and insecurity in the rest of …
The Organization of Hacienda Labor during the Mexican Revolution: Evidence from Yucatán
Beginning in 1914, Yucatecan revolutionary governors promulgated a series of decrees that liberated and regulated labor on henequen haciendas. The first of these decrees banned debt peonage, immediately weakening the pre-revolutionary labor regime, which was based on a mixture of paternalism and coercion. Using census and hacienda data, we show how hacendados and workers adapted to institutional changes and market shocks, allowing output and inve…
Indigenous Politics, the State, and Civil Society in the Andes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Regional Renegotiations of Space: Tojolabal Ethnic Identity in Las Margaritas, Chiapas
In recent years, Indians of different ethnicities in Chiapas have come together in regional and national forums around a sense of shared Indian identity. Calls for Indian unity at these forums are based on common experiences of discrimination, lack of representation and power in the national political system, and the absence of government services in indigenous regions, as well as on the shared practice of communal work and similar decision-makin…
Forthcoming in Volume 40 Number 1
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change
Representation and Rights: Recent Scholarship on Social Movements in Latin America
Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America. Edited by Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley. (New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 346. $24.95 paper.) Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador. By Allen Gerlach. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003. Pp. 286. $65.00 cloth, $23.95 paper.) The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States. Edited by David Maybury-Lewis. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univers…
Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1915
The henequen boom coincided with the rule of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). During the boom, many Maya in Yucatan lost their rights to land and moved to henequen haciendas. As part of the implicit contract with hacendados , peons accumulated large debts at the time of marriage, most of which were never repaid. We argue that the debts bound workers to the hacienda as part of a system of paternalism and that more productive workers incurred more debt. …
Ethnic Mobilization among the Maya of Yucatán
While the literature on indigenous political mobilization in Latin America is now quite extensive, relatively little has been published on why ethnic mobilization has not occurred in some indigenous regions. In this article, I examine a case where there is very little mobilization and organization around ethnic identity: Yucatán, Mexico. I begin with a political history of Yucatán, comparing it with and contrasting it to Chiapas. I then argue tha…
Indigenous Politics, the State, and Civil Society in the Andes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Multicultural reforms for Mexico’s “tranquil” Indians in Yucatán
Yucatán was one of the last Mexican states to enact Indian rights legislation in the wake of the 2001 national constitutional changes, and is worthy of examination, as it has one of the largest number of indigenous language speakers in Mexico. Indian rights legislation in Yucatán, titled “The Law for the Protection of the Rights of the Maya Community”, was passed by the state congress in April 2011 and an implementing decree was approved in Decem…
The Organization of Hacienda Labor during the Mexican Revolution: Evidence from Yucatán
Beginning in 1914, Yucatecan revolutionary governors promulgated a series of decrees that liberated and regulated labor on henequen haciendas. The first of these decrees banned debt peonage, immediately weakening the pre-revolutionary labor regime, which was based on a mixture of paternalism and coercion. Using census and hacienda data, we show how hacendados and workers adapted to institutional changes and market shocks, allowing output and inve…
Yucatec Maya Organizations in San Francisco, California: Ethnic Identity Formation Across Migrant Generations
Using results of field research among Yucatec Maya in San Francisco, we compare two types of migrant associations: hometown associations (HTAs) and social service agencies, specifically in terms of the use and expression of ethnic identity. We argue that HTA leaders rely on a regional identity based largely on a sense of shared culture, which reproduces the dominant and widespread view of ethnic identity in Yucatán, namely that the Maya are not a…
Reformas multiculturales para los mayas de Yucatán
En 2011 el Congreso yucateco aprobó la ley sobre derechos indígenas. En este trabajo argumentamos que las reformas multiculturales promulgadas en Yucatán hasta la fecha son el resultado de fuerzas de arriba hacia abajo, a nivel nacional, quehan presionado a los legisladores del estado a moverse en el área de los derechos indígenas. Las reformas multiculturales en Yucatán no son el resultado de la presión de bases. A pesar de la existencia de algu…
Willibald Sonnleitner Elecciones chiapanecas: Del Régimen Posrevolucionario Al Desorden Democrático
Elecciones Chiapanecas es un libro obligatorio para estudiantes y estudiosos interesados en la transicion democratica mexicana. Aunque el estado de Chiapas no figura entre los mas importantes a nivel nacional, tiene una de las poblaciones indigenas mas grandes del pais y es alli donde surgio el Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN), una de las organizaciones sociales mas significativas en la historia moderna mexicana, cosa que no se ti…
Mexico 2018: Amlo's hour
In July 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was elected President of Mexico in the largest electoral landslide in Mexico's democratic history. As a self-proclaimed transformational candidate, AMLO made big promises in areas of great concern for Mexican citizens: anti-corruption, criminal violence and security, and the economy. Support for AMLO remained extremely strong in 2018; however, to retain that support he will need to make concrete pr…
Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico
This article explains why some indigenous communities in Mexico have been able to resist drug cartels’ attempts to take over their local governments, populations, and territories while others have not. While indigenous customary laws and traditions provide communal accountability mechanisms that make it harder for narcos to take control, they are insufficient. Using a paired comparison of two indigenous regions in the highlands of Guerrero and Ch…
Internal Migration to Yucatán, Mexico: Moving for Security
Between 2000 and 2020, over one-third of the population increase of Yucatán’s capital city, Mérida, was due to the increase in the population born in another state in Mexico. Compared to the rest of Mexico and to Yucatán’s historical patterns, the growth in the out-of-state population during this time period has been unusual and dramatic. We focus on one explanation for this growth: the increase in criminal violence and insecurity in the rest of …
Yucatán as an Exception to Rising Criminal Violence in México
Yucatán state’s homicide level has remained low and steady for decades and criminal violence activity is low, even while crime rates in much of the rest of the country have increased since 2006. In this research note, we examine five main theoretical explanations for Yucatán's relative containment of violence: criminal competition, protection networks and party alternation, vertical partisan fragmentation, interagency coordination, and social coh…
State Responses to Autonomy Demands: Indigenous Movements and Regional Threats in Bolivia and Ecuador
In this paper, we examine the political factors that explain state responses to demands for indigenous territorial autonomy in Ecuador and Bolivia. Specifically, we aim to explain why the 2009 Bolivian constitution limited indigenous territorial autonomy to the departmental level, not allowing indigenous peoples to establish autonomous regions that lay beyond a single departmental jurisdiction, whereas the 2008 Ecuadorian constitution allows indi…
Indigenous autonomy and Latin American state security in contexts of criminal violence: The cases of Cauca in Colombia and Guerrero in Mexico
Scholars writing on Indigenous autonomy in the Americas have focused mainly on social movement demands and on the implementation of laws that enshrine autonomy rights. The motives of state officials in enacting de jure legislation on autonomy have received less scholarly attention. In this research note, we examine the Cauca region of southwestern Colombia and the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. Both regions have similar percentages of In…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Indigenous (11 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Indigenous Cultures and History (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works)