Social movements as emancipatory movements, the struggle against legal oppression,
social discrimination, economic disadvantage and the lack of political opportunities for …

This thesis examines the links between nascent bicultural education programs initiated by
the Huichol of central Mexico and the broader social movement for cultural, economic and …

In 1994 the Zapatista National Liberation Army rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico set in motion
many political and social processes, including demands for the improvement of living …

Latin Americans working at the community level would not use the term 'community
development'. They would find it a little vacuous, empty of the political content which …

This study follows the tenets of the Naturalistic inquiry. It allows the participants in any
collective process to tell their own stories. I examine two Guatemalan Mayan non …

This thesis explores the engagement of a social movement in the contestation of citizenship
by means of education, in the context of broader indigenous struggles in Latin America. I …

The dissertation reviews the developments in the education system applied in indigenous
communities in the State of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. A historical perspective is combined …

How do social movements learn and produce knowledge in contexts of repression and
violence? And in such contexts, how can radical pedagogy form part of social movement …

The idea of social movements tends to be associated, in a reductionist manner, with protests
in public spaces and negotiations in institutional spaces. Nevertheless, social movements …

This thesis focuses on the question of how the social person constitutes itself within the
Mexican indigenous reality of today. It is a theme that forces us to consider the traditional …