POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Forced Marriage, Structural Violence, Corporatism

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22 Jun 2018
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Power and Social Transformations
Why start with the Zapatistas?
Insisted that politics have deep roots but have ties to the present, insistence that
struggles whether we talk about gender equalities, racism, etc take place at the
same time. There are no hierarchies, etc.
Politics as power and resistance
All politics are entangled:
Global and local
Form decisions that you make on the local level, what you’re
going to prioritize, what you’re going to protest for or write to your
legislature for or retweet something for, etc. while global as well
Historical and conjunctural
Politics are historically determined
There are reasons why certain cities are subject to more
political corruption, or certain neighborhoods
underrepresented in colleges, etc.
Long historical trajectory that makes the present seem as
inevitable results of the past, however, humans can get in
the way (conjuncture)
Conjecture means anything is possible
Collective and personal
Individuals are important, but they are also the result of the
collective/community. They create collectivities
Rebellion of 1994-Present involves
Zapatistas in 1994 said their rebellions were as a result of racial,
postcolonial, geographical politics of Mexico (and of Chiapas, in
particular)
Land distribution
Local landowners trying to gobble up more of their land, trying to
privatize it, and business owners purchasing the land from
mexican farmers, pushing indigenous mexican farmers off their
territory
Clientistic and corporatist modes of participation
NAFTA
Politics is about people
Zapatistas not just about (short lived) armed insurrection
New modes of embodying the political
State-citizen -> society
Representation -> participation
Need active participation. Current example of if you don’t
participate (donald trump) will end up being leader
Politics involves multiple actors
Indigenous peoples
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