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Author di Piramo, Daniela, 1960-

Title Political leadership in Zapatista Mexico : Marcos, celebrity, and charismatic authority / Daniela di Piramo.

Publication Info. Boulder : FirstForumPress, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Includes glossary.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-249) and index.
Contents Charismatic authority in Latin America --- The Chiapas story --- Marcos and the Zapatistas : storming the world stage --- Zapatista politics and other tales --- 'Being Marcos' : the celebrity, the Caudillo and the revolutionary vanguard --- Revolutionizing charismatic authority ---- Appendixes.
Summary Can charismatic authority be used to further progressive politics without simultaneously doing damage? Is it possible for a movement with a charismatic leader to achieve an egalitarian society? Tracing the history of Mexicoʹs Zapatista movement and the emergence of its controversial masked spokesman, Subcommandante Marcos, Daniela di Piramo investigates the implications of these questions. Di Piramoʹs important distinction between charisma as an individual attribute and charismatic authority as a form of political power is reflected throughout her study. Following Marcosʹs public trajectory, she focuses not only on how the leader has used his personal appeal to draw international attention to the Zapatistaʹs plight, but also on how the constant spotlight on him has sometimes eclipsed the larger political agenda. Her work is both a significant biography and a penetrating exploration of the nature of charismatic political leadership in Latin America.
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Subject Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico) -- History.
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)
History.
Marcos, subcomandante.
Marcos, subcomandante.
Peasant Uprising (Chiapas, Mexico : 1994-)
Chiapas (Mexico) -- History -- Peasant Uprising, 1994-
Political leadership -- Mexico.
Political leadership.
Mexico.
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1988-2000.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1988-2000
1988 - 2000
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Di Piramo, Daniela, 1960- Political leadership in Zapatista Mexico 9781935049210 (DLC) 2010018975 (OCoLC)551146212
ISBN 9781626371538 (electronic book)
1626371539 (electronic book)
9781935049210
1935049216