Rosa de la Fuente, Ciencia PolĖtica III UCM. rdelafuente@airtel.net
Mapping the indigenous resistance in Chiapas
In this essay we try to show the relationship between the political and social change developed in Chiapas during the last years and the transformations of the social space in the region leaded by the Zapatista guerrilla and the civil society. The recovery of the social space through the creation of material resistance spaces (rebel municipalities, occupied territories, ŗindigenous˛ places, new symbolic spaces ) as well as through the indigenous autonomy discourse based on the international legislation and on San Andres Agreement has shown how important are the dimension of the social space in the resistance and the political change. For us, the process started by the uprising of the EZLN in Chiapas in 1994 has been able to challenge the three dimensions of the social space following H. Lefebvre, the daily spatial practices, the space of representation and the representation of space.