Essays about: "Mayan movement"
Found 4 essays containing the words Mayan movement.
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1. Expanding Autonomy : A qualitative case study on the EZLN and the expansion of autonomous communities in 2019
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In August 2019 the indigenous social movement Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN), decided to deepen their autonomy project and thereby to intensify their conflict with the Mexican state. The group that emerged in 1994 has for almost three decades been in conflict with the Mexican government. READ MORE
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2. Lekil Kuxlejal - an alternative to development? A field study in Chiapas, Mexico
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : The development ideals of linear progress, modernization and economic growth are based on one worldview among many, but have nonetheless been able to dominate global politics. Critical development literature has shown how indigenous peoples’ cosmologies have been pushed aside since colonialism, deemed traditional and backwards. READ MORE
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3. How should foreign impact and commercial use of traditional design, with the intent to promote development in indigenous communities, be considered in relation to the lege de ferenda legal protection stipulated in
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The rich Mayan weaving tradition in Guatemala has survived even though the indigenous population has been subject to centuries of hardship and oppression. After conducting a field study and scrutinising the commercialisation process of the traditional designs in five different producer cooperatives of which, for the purpose of this thesis, some are characterised as weaving cooperatives and others as international projects, I found that there has been and still is a large degree of foreign influence in the structure, organisation and the commercialisation process of traditional textile crafts. READ MORE
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4. "Reciprocication in Democratization" - A Field Study on Mayan Political Participation in Guatemala
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Over the centuries the Mayan indigenous population has been excluded from power politics in Guatemala. During the last decades much attention by scholars has been placed on the Mayan movement, as a new and unconventional political actor. READ MORE
