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Reengaging radical democracy: An examination of the Emiliano Zapata Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and new political participation

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Abstract

The mobilisation of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) on New Years Day 1994 in Mexico attracted considerable attention from those concerned with the democratic deficits of neoliberal globalisation and the increasing sense of individual powerlessness as states synchronise economic and public policy with the ideas and institutions of global capital. The paper argues that as a critical social movement the EZLN explores the meaning and practice of economic, political and social democracy. The EZLN practises a politics of radical democracy that incorporates a variety of strategies for enriching the democratic project. However, the EZLN's democratic project has little in common with the inclusive democracy project and yet the EZLN's project of radical democracy does cultivate a useful way of rethinking the site and nature of democracy in an age of globalisation when such institutions seem so increasingly inept.

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Author(s): Watson I

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Democracy and Nature

Year: 2002

Volume: 8

Issue: 1

Pages: 63-86

Print publication date: 02/07/2010

ISSN (print): 1085-5661

ISSN (electronic): 1469-3720

Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10855660120117674

DOI: 10.1080/10855660120117674

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