The Hegemonic Struggle between the Mexican Government and the Zapatista Movement (EZLN) : the Comparison of Two Competing Discourses for Social Change
Montessori, N. M. (Escuela Superior de Utrecht)

Date:	2005
Abstract:	This paper is a continuation of previous work presented at the XII ALFAL Conference in Santiago the Chile, the I Conference of ALFAL del Noroeste de Europa and a presentation held at the SLAS meeting in Norfolk (Montessori 1999, 2000, 2002). 1 In each case I have looked at the discursive interaction between texts of the government and the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN). The first two presentations concerned analyses of the interaction between texts of the Mexican government and the EZLN. The paper presented in Norfolk focussed on regional, national and global aspects of the discourse of the EZLN. The EZLN started its armed activities on January 1st, 1994, the day on which NAFTA (North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement) was implemented. As a protest against the consequences of neoliberalism in general, and this treaty in particular, the movement occupied several communities in the state of Chiapas, located in the southeast of Mexico. Their main demands were justice, democracy and liberty, to which autonomy for indigenous communities was added at a later stage. After a short and violent conflict against the Mexican military, they changed their struggle to a verbal war. Under pressure of civil society, the government and the EZLN engaged in a dialogue in order to negotiate a solution to the conflict.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Estudios de lingüística del español, Vol. 22 (2005) , ISSN 1139-8736

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