Las Abejas Pacifist Resistance and Syncretic Identities in a Globalizing Chiapas

Las Abejas came to be known by the international community as the civil counterpart to the neozapatista movements and as a Christian pacifist movement. This book presents the voices of Las Abejas and of numerous collaborators alongside an innovative theoretical analysis of the dynamics of identity construction. The uniqueness of this study is the analysis of the role of international human rights observers in relation to indigenous communities in resistance. In this fascinating study, Marco Tavanti explains how cultural, religious, political, human rights and nonviolent frameworks combine in a syncretic identity of resistance.Tavanti, Marco is the author of 'Las Abejas Pacifist Resistance and Syncretic Identities in a Globalizing Chiapas' with ISBN 9780415942157 and ISBN 0415942152.