Sowing Indigenous Autonomy

Building a Common Political-Ethical Territory of Struggle with Zapatista Seed Pedagogics

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ID4501038
AuthorsCharlotte María Sáenz (corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume51
Issue5
Pages61-80
Publication date2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x241288861
OpenAlexW4403257806
LanguageEN
References cited16

This article inquires into the workings of Zapatista Seed Pedagogics' (ZSP) building of a political-ethical commons outside the movement's autonomous territories. Parting from a previous theorization of ZSP as a decolonizing educational process, this writing draws on interviews with external activists of neozapatista networks who have encountered and/or accompanied the movement in the last three decades. These evolving conversations reflect on their learnings in what is a life-long pedagogical process. These include: 1) an ongoing struggle for dismantling internalized hierarchies and vanguards in habits of thinking, being, and doing; 2) the recuperation of historical ancestral memory that builds collective subjectivity; and 3) the organization of collectivities that participate in a common political-ethical territory of struggle transcending nation-state identities. This exploration of ZSP reveals reflexive conscientization in subjects willing to learn and listen differently, suggesting the emergence of a transgeographic political-ethical subject immersed in a co-construction of knowledge with Zapatismo itself

Agroforestry · Agronomy · Autonomy · Biology · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sowing · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecology · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Latin American Cultural Politics · Law · Public Administration

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