Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao CLECIO FERREIRA MENDES.pdf: 671931 bytes, checksum: 4424c43654612c44eba06079d7728add (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-11-04 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to analyse the educational concepts of Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), in Brazil, and of Zapatist Army of National Liberation, in Mexico. Our goal is to verify convergent and divergent aspects among their speeches which are the basis of their educational practices. We intend to analyse how the educational proposal of these movements express the revindications of the rural population which historically, struggle for the land. As to the Zapatist case, their historical revindications are based on the common appropriation of the land, being common also the decisions regarding production and distribution. In the case of MST, proposals aiming the organization of cooperatives and the communization of production and distribution are found even in the field of education. Both movements have educational projects which reflect ideologies defended by them and, in their struggles, they display the contradictions of capitalist system. Such contradictions become more intense due to the advancement of neoliberal policies and direct the fight of both movements against neoliberalism and its consequences. It is therefore necessary to understand neoliberalism in Latin America not only as an economic trend but also as a kind of dictatorship which marginalizes and restrain the social struggles and movements. This study intends to rescue educational projects, while expression of their historicity, that is, while ideological representation of people who are deprived of socially produced goods. One of the main reflections derived from these movements is related to the way social movements act, creating new paths which are followed by new social movements facing old dilemmas. / O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar as concepções educacionais e verificar os aspectos de convergência e divergência entre os discursos que fundamentam as práticas educacionais do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST), no Brasil e do Exército Zapatista de Libertação Nacional, no México. Nosso interesse reside em analisar como as propostas pedagógicas destes movimentos expressam as reivindicações da população do campo que historicamente lutam pela terra. No caso zapatista, suas reivindicações históricas vão no sentido de uma apropriação coletiva da terra, assim como são coletivas as decisões relativas à produção e à distribuição. No caso do MST, observa-se, inclusive no campo educacional, propostas visando à organização de cooperativas, assim como à coletivização da produção e da distribuição. Consideramos que seus projetos educacionais refletem as ideologias destes dois movimentos, que expõem, em suas lutas, as contradições do sistema capitalista. Essas contradições se aprofundam conjuntamente com o avanço das políticas neoliberais, direcionando a luta dos movimentos contra essa tendência e suas conseqüências. Portanto, faz-se necessário, o entendimento do neoliberalismo na América Latina não somente como uma corrente econômica, mas também como uma forma de ditadura, que marginaliza e reprime as lutas e os movimentos sociais. O trabalho se fundamenta no resgate dos preceitos educacionais enquanto expressões de sua historicidade, ou seja, enquanto representações ideológicas de pessoas excluídas do acesso aos bens produzidos socialmente. Uma das principais reflexões oriundas desses movimentos sociais é sobre as formas de atuação, criando os novos caminhos dos novos movimentos sociais frente aos velhos dilemas.

(in English): In this thesis I present the Zapatista movement and its media strategy. Further I describe its visual communication by means of a case study. After evaluating the significance of media strategies of the zapatista movement, I will prove that Zapatistas' media communication played a crucial role in the transformation of Mexican society in the late 90s and directly influenced the process of transition to democracy in Mexico. In the introduction I will explain how news photographs can be a source of exploration of the Zapatistas and I will introduce the basic hypotheses of my research. In the historical part of my introduction I will put the movement in the context with the political, social and historical development of Mexico and the state of Chiapas, where the uprising broke out in 1994 and I will explain the causes of the rebellion and introduce its goals. Before I describe the aspects of Zapatistas' communication, I will focus on the Mexican media environment so that I can link it with the media outlets of the Zapatista movement. I will describe in general terms media strategies and myths created by the movement. In the case study I will examine photographs of EZLN published in the magazine Proceso in the years 1994 and 2001, I will compare the Zapatistas' visual communication with...

This dissertation aims to enrich the discussion about the role of social movements in the process of democratisation, ie. to assess their role in the transformation from authoritarian to democratic regime. In particular, it tries to find the way how to assess the impact of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) and related movement on the Mexican transition to democracy in 1990s. The analysis tries to identify possible impacts on three different levels -- political (which means regime transition), social (which is related with the change of the nature of the relations between state and society, once described as corporatist) and economical (which means the end of neoliberal policy promoted by recent Mexican governments and the introduction of more equal, "more democratic" policy in zapatista logic). It looks both at the formal (direct through bargaining) and informal (influence) impact of the zapatista movement. From the methodological point of view, the study is case analysis, in some parts it uses historical analysis. The text is structured into five chapters. The first chapter shows main theoretical and methodological approaches to the social movements with special focus on Latin American context. It is followed by explaining the principles of methods used to assessment of the zapatista impacts. The second chapter presents main approaches to social change and process of democratic transition. The third chapter contains the historical analysis of transformation of relation between state and society during 20th century, from the introduction of (state) corporatist model in 1930s to its gradual dismantling in the late 20th century. The fourth chapter analysis the evolution of EZLN from its beginning in Lacandon jungle in southern Mexican state of Chiapas. In relation with the emphasis of movement's goals, the period from 1994, when zapatista uprising in Chiapas started, to 2010 is divided into four stages. In the fifth chapter, theoretical findings are applied on EZLN and zapatista movement and formulated hypotheses are tested.

The thesis discusses the uprising of Zapatista Army of National Liberation and its impact on democratization and political transformation in Mexico. First, it looks into the context of the political situation in Mexico before 1994, history of Zapatista army and the election year of 1994. The reasons for the uprising were several - from neoliberalism in the Mexican economy and the completion of the land reform until the joining of NAFTA. During the uprising, Mexico was an authoritarian regime with a government of one party - the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The Zapatistas have tried to proclaim the change of direction of Mexican politics. The actual rebellion lasted only 12 days before the start of negotiations between the government and rebels. Thanks to the media and broad international support, the uprising evolved into a left-wing movement, fighting for the rights of the Indian population and the poorer Mexican inhabitants. Over the years the Zapatistas have achieved partial success and often provide direction for the political transition. The main subject of this thesis is examining the impact of democratization on the Zapatistas in Mexico.

Grounded in the geographies of Chiapas, Mexico, the dissertation maps a cartography of Zapatista indigenous resistance practices and charts the production of decolonial political subjectivities in an era of neoliberal governance and low intensity conflict. It analyzes the relationship between local cultural political expressions of indigenous autonomy, global capitalist interests and neoliberal rationalities of government after more than decade of Zapatista struggle. Since 1996, Zapatista indigenous Mayan communities have engaged in the creation of alternative education, health, agricultural production, justice, and governing bodies as part of the daily practices of autonomy. The dissertation demonstrates that the practices of Zapatista indigenous autonomy reflect current shifts in neoliberal state governing logics, yet it is in this very terrain where key ruptures and destabilizing practices emerge. The dissertation focuses on the recolonization aspects of neoliberal rationalities of government in their particular Latin American post Cold War, post populist manifestations. I argue that in Mexico's indigenous regions, the shift towards the privatization of state social services, the decentralization of state governing techniques and the transformation of state social programs towards an emphasis on greater self-management occurs in a complex relationship to mechanisms of low intensity conflict. Their multiple articulations effect the reproduction of social and biological life in sites, which are themselves terrains of bio-political contention: racialized women's bodies and feminized domestic reproductive and care taking roles; the relationship between governing bodies and that governed; land reform as linked to governability and democracy; and the production of the indigenous subject in a multicultural era. In each of these arenas, the dissertation charts a decolonial cartography drawn by the following cultural political practices: the construction of genealogies of social memories of struggle, a governing relationship established through mandar obedeciendo, land redistribution through zapatista agrarian reform, pedagogical collective selfreflection in women’s collective work, and the formation of political identities of transformation. Finally, the dissertation discusses the possibilities and challenges for engaging in feminist decolonizing dialogic research, specifically by analyzing how Zapatista members critiqued the politics of fieldwork and adopted the genres of the testimony and the popular education inspired workshop as potential decolonizing methodologies. / text