POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Discrete Category, North American Free Trade Agreement, Structural Violence
18 Jan 2018
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Open hostilities between zapatistas and mexican military lasted about 12 days. Independent and no-gov say 12k were wounded, killed, etc. Negotiators would offer indigenous representatives some money, but the zapatistas would take the offer to the community to look at the offer. The negotiations leading up to nafta, us and canada insisted mexico agreed to article 47 . All politics are entangled: we always think of responsibilities as a citizen and not a family member, we think of it as a discrete category, but things are a lot messier than that. Global and local: global aspects of your personality inform how you"re going to act locally. Collective and personal: individuals are results of collectives (of communities), both are important. Despite the fact that mexico has a mixed race identity, zapatistas pointed out that the poorest were the ones identified as indigenous. The fact that chiapas is far from capital city, means that local.
