| Abstract: | This article reviews the most recent monograph to be published on agrarian conflict in the state of Chiapas since the Zapatista uprising of 1994. In it, the author combines discursive and structural analysis from the disciplines of history, anthropology and geography to understand the response of regional landed elites to the agrarian mobilizations of 1994–1998. The result is an agrarian political economy which, besides being a useful analysis of contemporary events, constitutes a history and ethnography of land tenure, landed production and agrarian struggles in Chiapas from the liberalism of the late nineteenth century, through the revolutionary, post-revolutionary and neo-liberal eras of the twentieth century. |
