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LIVED RELIGION AND LIVED CITIZENSHIP IN LATIN AMERICA'S ZONES OF CRISIS: Introduction
In this introduction we present the concepts of \"lived religion\" and \"lived citizenship\" as tools for understanding the ways in which religious and political meanings and practices are constituted in social movements and locations of poverty and exclusion in Latin America. We first develop the idea of \"zones of crisis\" as a context in which struggles for rights, recognition, and survival are enacted. We then challenge reified between the secular and the religious, emphasizing religion's embodiment and emplacement in daily life and politics. Reviewing the empirical findings of the articles in this special issue, we discuss the multiple imbrications of religion and citizenship with regard to democratic politics, geographies of conflict, and safe spaces, as well as selfhood, identity, and agency. In a postsecular world, interrogating religion, secularity, and politics together enables us better to understand the complex construction of democratic citizenship and the dynamism of Latin America's multiple modernities. En esta introducción presentamos los conceptos de la religión vivida y la ciudadanía vivida como herramientas para entender las maneras en las cuales las prácticas y significados religiosos y políticos están constituidos en los movimientos sociales y en las zonas de pobreza y exclusión en América Latina. Primero desarrollamos la idea de las zonas de crisis como contextos en los cuales toman lugar las luchas por derechos, reconocimiento y sobrevivencia. Luego cuestionamos las distinciones cosificadas entre lo secular y lo religioso, enfatizando el carácter encarnado y situado de la religión en la vida diaria y política. Reseñando los hallazgos empíricos de los artículos de este número especial de LARR, discutimos las múltiples imbricaciones de la religión y la ciudadanía con respecto a los espacios seguros, la política democrática, geografías de conflicto, la identidad y la capacidad de acción. En un mundo possecular, interrogando juntos lo religioso, lo secular y lo político nos ubica para entender la compleja construcción de la ciudadanía democrática y el dinamismo de las múltiples modernidades latinoamericanas.
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Meanings and Mobilizations: A Cultural Politics Approach to Social Movements and States
Through examination of the Zapotec movement in Juchitán, Mexico, the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Pan-Mayan movements in Guatemala, and the Afro-Reggae Cultural Group in Rio de Janeiro, this article will show that social movements are best analyzed through a combined focus on the circuitous historical pathways of their origins and emergence and on the diverse pieces of representation and meaning out of which they are made. This dual focus, in turn, enables us to understand how political actors form, the places where politics occurs, and the resignifications that lie at the heart of political conflict.
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Decentering the Regime: Culture and Regional Politics in Mexico
As a preeminent enduring regime in the world today, Mexico provides a compelling case study regarding the nature and locus of power. Since the 1970s, accounts of politics in postrevolutionary Mexico have assumed that ongoing domination has resulted from centralized, relatively homogeneous power transmitted outward through corporatist mechanisms. The process of transmission replicated the dynamics of the center through a combination of skillful management and efficient coercion. Even now, as researchers are emphasizing the breakdown of corporatism and the complexity and nuance of current Mexican politics, they continue to codify the past according to the terms of the 1970s analysis and view the present through this lens. But while social scientists in the 1970s were right to characterize the postrevolutionary Mexican regime as authoritarian and hegemonic, they were wrong about the nature of hegemony. In constructing a state-centered and center-centered understanding of politics, social scientists then and now have misunderstood the nature of power and domination in Mexico and the reasons for the endurance of the Mexican regime.
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Cross-Border Tender Offers and Other Business Combination Transactions and the U.S. Federal Securities Laws: An Overview
In structuring cross-border tender offers and other business combination transactions, parties must consider carefully the potential application of U. S. federal securities laws and regulations to their transaction. By understanding the extent to which a proposed transaction will be subject to the provisions of U.S. federal securities laws and regulations, parties may be able to structure their transaction in a manner that avoids the imposition of unanticipated or burdensome disclosure and procedural requirements and also may be able to minimize potential conflicts between U.S. laws and regulations and foreign legal or market requirements. This article provides a broad overview of U.S. federal securities laws and regulations applicable to cross-border tender offers and other business combination transactions, including a detailed discussion of Regulations 14D and 14E under the Securities Exchange Act and the principal accommodations afforded to foreign private issuers thereunder.
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COCEI in Juchitán: Grassroots Radicalism and Regional History
In Juchitán, Mexico, a poor people's movement has challenged the local and national authorities of the Mexican government, withstood violent repression and military occupation, and succeeded in winning municipal elections and becoming a permanent leftist force in regional politics. This movement, the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI), is one of the strongest and most militant grassroots movements in Mexico, in large part because Zapotec Indians in Juchitán transformed their courtyards and fiestas into fora for intense political discussion, gathered in the streets in massive demonstrations, and, in the course of the past two decades, redefined the activites, meanings and alliancesof therie culture.
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ACTIVISTAS HABLAN DE RELIGIÓN Y MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES, LIMA 2010
Este artículo transcribe y considera la discusión suscitada en Lima, Perú entre activistas y académicos de las Americas tras nuestra presentación de trabajos preliminares sobre religión y movimientos sociales progresistas. Al concluir las ponencias, planteamos al público varias preguntas para pensar sus experiencias con la religión en el marco de su activismo. El artículo intenta capturar el interés y la diversidad de intervenciones al invertir la dinámica etnográfica convencional, dándole prioridad al informante en lugar del investigador. Confirma así un importante deseo entre activistas de comentar y debatir el papel de la religión en las luchas sociales. Observamos una amplia gama de respuestas marcada en sus extremos por posiciones antagónicas. Algunos comentaristas representaron a la religión como la que acoge, protege y da fuerza a movimientos sociales y sus participantes. Otros ven en la religión un marco opresivo que conlleva legados históricos coloniales de machismo, verticalismo y pensamiento único. This article transcribes and considers the discussion that ensued in Lima, Peru, between activists and academics from the Americas after we presented preliminary research on religion and progressive social movements. Following formal remarks, we posed several questions for the audience to reflect on, specifically regarding the place of religion in their activism. This article attempts to capture the resulting public interest and diversity of action by inverting the conventional ethnographic dynamic, prioritizing informants instead of researchers. It therefore confirms an important desire to comment on and debate the role of religion in social struggles. We observed a spectrum of responses marked at its extremes by antagonistic positions. Some represented religion as that which comforts, protects, and offers strength to social movements and their participants. Others see in religion an oppressive framework shaped by colonial legacies of machismo, verticalism, and homogeneous thinking.
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Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico
Rubin reviews Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico edited by Elisa Servin, Leticia Reina and John Tutino.
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