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Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas Paperback / softback - 2007

by Aaron Bobrow-Strain

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Paperback / softback. New. Explores conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, a crucial unexamined actor in the state's violent history. This title provides insights into policy debates surrounding the recent global resurgence of peasant land reform movements as well as theoretical frameworks that have long guided the study of agrarian politics.
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  • Title Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas
  • Author Aaron Bobrow-Strain
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2007-06-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780822340041
  • ISBN 9780822340041 / 0822340046
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 6.09 x 0.69 in (23.22 x 15.47 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Cultural Region: Mexican
  • Library of Congress subjects Chiapas (Mexico) - Social conditions, Land reform - Mexico - Chiapas - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007002141
  • Dewey Decimal Code 972.75

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Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state's violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as "bad guys" with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes the landowners of Chiapas seriously, asking why coffee planters and cattle ranchers with a long and storied history of violent responses to agrarian conflict reacted to land invasions triggered by the Zapatista Rebellion of 1994 with quiescence and resignation rather than thugs and guns. In the process, he offers a unique ethnographic and historical glimpse into conflicts that have been understood almost exclusively through studies of indigenous people and movements.

Weaving together ethnography, archival research, and cultural history, Bobrow-Strain argues that prior to the upheavals of 1994 landowners were already squeezed between increasingly organized indigenous activism and declining political and economic support from the Mexican state. He demonstrates that indigenous mobilizations that began in 1994 challenged not just the economy of estate agriculture but also landowners' understandings of progress, masculinity, ethnicity, and indigenous docility. By scrutinizing the elites' responses to land invasions in relation to the cultural politics of race, class, and gender, Bobrow-Strain provides timely insights into policy debates surrounding the recent global resurgence of peasant land reform movements. At the same time, he rethinks key theoretical frameworks that have long guided the study of agrarian politics by engaging political economy and critical human geography's insights into the production of space. Describing how a carefully defended world of racial privilege, political dominance, and landed monopoly came unglued, Intimate Enemies is a remarkable account of how power works in the countryside.

From the rear cover

"Whether we knew it or not, "Intimate Enemies" is the book that we have been waiting for since at least 1994: the book about the other side of Chiapas's rural society, its "ladino" landowners. Gracefully written, evocative, and wise, it is just superb."--Jan Rus, coeditor of "Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion"

About the author

Aaron Bobrow-Strain is Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College.

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