Abstract

AQUINO MORESCHI, Alejandra. No me desilusioné del movimiento, me desesperé: Las paradojas de la militancia zapatista en tiempos de guerra. Nueva antropol [online]. 2013, vol.26, n.78, pp.163-189. ISSN 0185-0636.

This article analyzes the experience of militancy within the Zapatista ranks, from a biographical and ethnographic perspective, and places particular emphasis on the moment the elements leave their militant political activities. Drawing from concrete cases, it aims to explain what the different rationales are in play at the moment of leaving a social movement. Although militancy in the Zapatista movement has been experienced as an essentially emancipating quotidian political practice, it has also been a very "costly"" militancy in terms of risks, efforts, and resources invested, which has provoked the departure from the movement of some elements. These departures are closely related to a series of logical justifications such as fatigue, despair, injustice, and the loss of meaning; these justifications appear at times of high pressure, provoked by low-intensity warfare, which includes military and paramilitary actions of the Zapatista municipalities, direct attack on autonomous communities or municipalities, the distribution of privileges and governmental programs among non-Zapatista communities, the failure of the State to comply with the accords signed in 1996, and the closure of all institutional means of peaceful conflict resolution.

Keywords : Social movements; collective action; political militancy; Zapatista movement.

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