Reframing the Zapatista Movement: Epistemic Struggle, Narrative Resistance, and the Global South
Radicalism in the Global South: Inequality, Identity and Resistance, Springer Nature, ss.219-233, 2026
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1007/978-3-032-19484-8_14
- Yayınevi: Springer Nature
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.219-233
- Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This chapter examines how questions of epistemic injustice emerge in the context of the Zapatista movement and how different actors negotiate the circulation of meaning. The discussion draws on Miranda Fricker’s account of testimonial and hermeneutical injustice together with Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s epistemologies of the South. Three analytical dimensions guide the analysis. One concerns the shifting patterns of credibility and visibility associated with Subcomandante Marcos. Another highlights the efforts of Indigenous women to create interpretive resources through community-based political practices. A further dimension considers storytelling and cultural production as forms of epistemic work that shape how experiences become intelligible across local and transnational settings. The overall aim is to show how these dynamics inform wider debates on radicalism in the Global South and how epistemic conflicts influence horizons of political meaning without advancing a normative assessment of the movement.