The Bridge Called Zapatismo

Transcultural and Transnational Activist Networks in Los Angeles and Beyond

Bibliographic Data

ID4501272
AuthorsKara Zugman Dellacioppa (California State University, Dominguez Hills)
Year2011
Volume38
Issue1
Pages120-137
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x10384216
OpenAlexW2104690949
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited15

Study of a social movement in Los Angeles called Casa del Pueblo reveals the limitations of current theory on transnational social movements and advocacy networks. Whereas current theory tends to view the diffusion of political culture as a one-way process whereby Western ideas diffuse from the wealthier North to the Third World, Casa del Pueblo was born out of a transnational activist network created by the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista National Liberation Army-EZLN) in Mexico, a trailblazer of the global justice movement. Casa del Pueblo is a multiracial, largely Latino community group that organizes undocumented immigrants in Echo Park on a variety of issues. It borrows from the Zapatistas an expressive politics focused on consensus building and the active participation of all members and shares with them an emphasis on cultural and political autonomy. The record of Casa del Pueblo and similar transcultural movements in the United States and elsewhere suggests the need for a more interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to the study of transnational movements and advocacy networks

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