ISBN: 9780521878760

Tracing the political origins of the Mexican indigenous rights movement, from the colonial encounter to the Zapatista uprising, and from Chiapas to Geneva, Courtney Jung locates indigenou… Plus…

Tracing the political origins of the Mexican indigenous rights movement, from the colonial encounter to the Zapatista uprising, and from Chiapas to Geneva, Courtney Jung locates indigenous identity in the history of Mexican state formation. She argues that indigenous identity is not an accident of birth but a political achievement that offers a new voice to many of the world''s poorest and most dispossessed. The moral force of indigenous claims rests not on the existence of cultural differences, or identity, but on the history of exclusion and selective inclusion that constitutes indigenous identity. As a result, the book shows that privatizing or protecting such groups is a mistake and develops a theory of critical liberalism that commits democratic government to active engagement with the claims of culture. This book will appeal to scholars and students of political theory, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology studying multiculturalism and the politics of culture. | The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics by Courtney Jung Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > Politics P10103, Courtney Jung<

ISBN: 9780521878760

Hardback, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Courtney Jung traces the development of indigenous movements in Mexico, linking indigenous identity directly to the project of Mexican state fo… Plus…

Hardback, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Courtney Jung traces the development of indigenous movements in Mexico, linking indigenous identity directly to the project of Mexican state formation. She argues that the moral force of indigenous claims rests on the history of oppression that has constituted the indigenous as a political group, and not on cultural difference., Political Science & Theory<

2008, ISBN: 0521878764

[EAN: 9780521878760], Neubuch, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Books

2015, ISBN: 0521878764

Gebundene Ausgabe, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Cambridge University Press]