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Subcommander Marcos de Nick Henck

Subcommander Marcos

Autor Nick Henck
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iul 2007

Remarcăm faptul că această lucrare semnată de Nick Henck reprezintă prima biografie exhaustivă în limba engleză dedicată uneia dintre cele mai enigmatice figuri politice contemporane. Volumul aduce o claritate necesară asupra tranziției de la mediul academic urban al Ciudad de México la realitățile dure ale junglei din Chiapas, oferind un portret documentat al transformării lui Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente în Subcomandantul Marcos. Autorul extinde cadrul propus de Insurgent Marcos (tot de Nick Henck) prin adăugarea unei dimensiuni biografice profunde, care depășește analiza pur filosofică a influențelor politice.

Suntem de părere că rigoarea cercetării este evidențiată de organizarea cronologică precisă în trei părți distincte. Prima secțiune analizează anii de formare la UNAM, urmată de o cronică a „anilor de pustiu” și a primului contact cu populațiile indigene, culminând cu explozia mediatică de la 1 ianuarie 1994, data intrării în vigoare a NAFTA. Spre deosebire de antologiile de texte precum Our Word is Our Weapon sau Professionals of Hope, care prezintă vocea directă a liderului, volumul de față acționează ca un instrument critic care decodifică „războiul mediatic” purtat de Marcos.

Recomandăm această lectură pentru modul în care Nick Henck reușește să evite hagiografia, plasându-l pe Marcos ferm în tradiția gherilei latino-americane, dar subliniind flexibilitatea sa ideologică și respingerea dogmelor marxiste rigide. Este o resursă academică esențială pentru înțelegerea mișcării zapatiste și a modului în care un intelectual a devenit puntea de comunicare între comunitățile indigene marginalizate și arena politică internațională.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822339953
ISBN-10: 0822339951
Pagini: 528
Ilustrații: 19 photographs, 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 163 x 236 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această biografie este indispensabilă celor interesați de istoria politică a Americii Latine și de mecanismele mișcărilor sociale moderne. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată asupra modului în care carisma personală și strategia mediatică pot transforma o revoltă locală într-un simbol global al rezistenței. Este o analiză lucidă a modului în care ideile academice sunt testate și reformulate în condiții de gherilă.

Despre autor

Nick Henck este profesor asociat invitat în cadrul Facultății de Drept de la Universitatea Keio din Tokyo. Specialist recunoscut în studiile despre zapatism, Henck și-a dedicat o parte considerabilă a carierei analizei mișcărilor de rezistență din Mexic. Lucrările sale, printre care se numără și The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage, se disting prin efortul de a traduce și interpreta pentru publicul anglofon complexitatea ideologică și socială a Subcomandantului Marcos, fiind considerat unul dintre principalii biografi ai acestuia.

Descriere scurtă

Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas in rebellion against the government; by sunset Marcos was on his way to becoming the most famous guerrilla leader since Che Guevara. Subsequently, through a succession of interviews, communiqués, and public spectacles, the Subcommander emerged as a charismatic spokesperson for the indigenous Zapatista uprising and a rallying figure in the international anti-globalization movement. In this, the first English-language biography of Subcommander Marcos, Nick Henck describes the thought, leadership, and personality of this charismatic rebel spokesperson. He traces Marcos’s development from his provincial middle-class upbringing, through his academic career and immersion into the clandestine world of guerrillas, until his final emergence as the iconic masked rebel par excellence. He also reflects on what motivated an urbane university professor to reject a life of comfort in Mexico City in favour of one of hardship as a rural guerrilla in the mountainous jungles of Chiapas, and examines the process whereby Marcos became an effective conduit through which impoverished indigenous Mexicans could communicate with the world. Henck fully explores Marcos’s astute use of the media, while at the same time emphasizing that just as important as the rebel leader’s media savvy is the flexibility of his thought. He shows how Marcos’s speeches and extensive writings demonstrate not only the Subcommander’s erudition but also his rejection of Marxist dogmatism. Finally, Henck contextualizes Marcos, locating him firmly within the Latin American guerrilla tradition.

Recenzii

“Nick Henck’s meticulous research and careful rendering of the myths and facts behind Subcommander Marcos’s life and rise to prominence as a guerrilla leader and media darling is a major accomplishment in biography. This intriguing and insightful portrait of the man and his times will interest anyone seeking a greater understanding of recent Mexican politics.”—Roderic Ai Camp, author of Politics in Mexico: The Democratic Consolidation“In this encyclopedic biography, Nick Henck draws on almost everything ever published on Subcommander Marcos. The result is an analysis that first highlights Marcos’s intellectual and political formation prior to his entering the Lacandon jungle in late 1983, and then illuminates the Subcommander’s unique cultural and political flexibility, which ultimately served to let the EZLN be directed by the priorities of the indigenous communities of Chiapas. As Henck points out, this flexibility is what distinguished Marcos from other twentieth-century guerrilla leaders; it was pivotal in permitting the EZLN to play a central role in the democratization of Mexico after seventy years of one-party rule. This is a valuable reference book for all those interested in a detailed account of the rise of Subcommander Marcos and the EZLN in Chiapas.”—Lynn Stephen, author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon"This biography of Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, better known as SubcomandanteMarcos, is the product of thorough investigation of all kinds of records of theZapatista movement in south-eastern Mexico, and as such should be welcomed byeveryone interested in this rebellion. Author Nick Henck presents us with an almostcomplete background and history of the charismatic ‘man with the mask’ andattempts to analyse the reasons for his impact as a revolutionary leader. Henck’spainstaking and exhaustive collection of everything that has been published aboutMarcos provides us with a book that answers almost all the questions one couldthink of about the history of the Zapatistas and its leader. It is only a pity thatHenck never personally interviewed him.The author describes Rafael’s youth, his family background, the years at schooland at the UNAM (National University) and the UAM (Metropolitan University ofMexico), where he taught philosophy until he went to Chiapas in 1984. Year byyear we are shown how the Indian villages were visited, how combatants were recruited,who was in charge of special tasks and what progress was made or whaterrors were committed. As such, this book is a Fundgrube for social scientists andjournalists alike and is highly recommended."-- European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 84, April 2008 | 113
"Nick Henck's meticulous research and careful rendering of the myths and facts behind Subcommander Marcos's life and rise to prominence as a guerrilla leader and media darling is a major accomplishment in biography. This intriguing and insightful portrait of the man and his times will interest anyone seeking a greater understanding of recent Mexican politics."--Roderic Ai Camp, author of Politics in Mexico: The Democratic Consolidation "In this encyclopedic biography, Nick Henck draws on almost everything ever published on Subcommander Marcos. The result is an analysis that first highlights Marcos's intellectual and political formation prior to his entering the Lacandon jungle in late 1983, and then illuminates the Subcommander's unique cultural and political flexibility, which ultimately served to let the EZLN be directed by the priorities of the indigenous communities of Chiapas. As Henck points out, this flexibility is what distinguished Marcos from other twentieth-century guerrilla leaders; it was pivotal in permitting the EZLN to play a central role in the democratization of Mexico after seventy years of one-party rule. This is a valuable reference book for all those interested in a detailed account of the rise of Subcommander Marcos and the EZLN in Chiapas."--Lynn Stephen, author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon "This biography of Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente, better known as Subcomandante Marcos, is the product of thorough investigation of all kinds of records of the Zapatista movement in south-eastern Mexico, and as such should be welcomed by everyone interested in this rebellion. Author Nick Henck presents us with an almost complete background and history of the charismatic 'man with the mask' and attempts to analyse the reasons for his impact as a revolutionary leader. Henck's painstaking and exhaustive collection of everything that has been published about Marcos provides us with a book that answers almost all the questions one could think of about the history of the Zapatistas and its leader. It is only a pity that Henck never personally interviewed him. The author describes Rafael's youth, his family background, the years at school and at the UNAM (National University) and the UAM (Metropolitan University of Mexico), where he taught philosophy until he went to Chiapas in 1984. Year by year we are shown how the Indian villages were visited, how combatants were recruited, who was in charge of special tasks and what progress was made or what errors were committed. As such, this book is a Fundgrube for social scientists and journalists alike and is highly recommended."-- European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 84, April 2008 | 113

Notă biografică

Nick Henck is Visiting Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Keio University in Tokyo.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

"In this encyclopedic biography, Nick Henck draws on almost everything ever published on Subcommander Marcos. The result is an analysis that first highlights Marcos's intellectual and political formation prior to his entering the Lacandon jungle in late 1983, and then illuminates the Subcommander's unique cultural and political flexibility, which ultimately served to let the EZLN be directed by the priorities of the indigenous communities of Chiapas. As Henck points out, this flexibility is what distinguished Marcos from other twentieth-century guerrilla leaders; it was pivotal in permitting the EZLN to play a central role in the democratization of Mexico after seventy years of one-party rule. This is a valuable reference book for all those interested in a detailed account of the rise of Subcommander Marcos and the EZLN in Chiapas."--Lynn Stephen, author of "Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon"

Cuprins

Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xii
Abbreviations and Acronyms xv
Cast of Main Characters xix
Introduction 1
Part I: Rafael
1. Birth and Family 13
2. School Years 20
3. High School College 23
4. UNAM 29
5. The Gradate 42
Part II: Marcos the Guerilla
6. Chiapas 57
7. Guerilla Inception 65
8. The Wilderness Years 76
9. First Contact 82
10. Promotion and Expansion 88
11. A Jungle Wedding 107
12. An Election, Exponential Growth, and a Rift 112
13. Bust and Boom 124
14. Fallout 129
15. From the People’s Guerilla to a Guerilla People 133
16. Indigenous Indignation 143
17. An Internal Coup and the Road to War 163
Part III: Marcos the Star Spokesman
18. The Uprising 195
19. “Waging a Masterful Media War” 213
20. A Cease-Fire 221
21. The Cult of Marcos 226
22. Peace Talks 247
23. Courting Civil Society 253
24. The Elections and Their Aftermath 262
25. Marcos Unmasked and Rafael Revealed 278
26. Nationalizing and Internationalizing the Struggle 301
27. A March and a Massacre 315
28. Speedy Gonzalez Breaks the Silence 321
29. A Consulta, a Story, and a Strike 330
30. A Change of Government 336
31. The Zapatour 342
32. Marcos Today 353
Conclusion 361
Notes 369
Glossary 467
Works Cited 469
Index 487