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The Perils And Possibilities Of Revolutionary Tourism

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Jun. × ’10

By Sarah

It is hard for me to talk about the Zapatistas without the immediate, cynical self-censor popping up and pointing its wry satiric finger at me. There is so much revolutionary hanging-on taking place in Mexico, and so much of it reeks of that vapid and imperial pat-yourself-on-the-back irony in which wealthy university professors from the North [...]

Posted in Authenticity, Politics, Trips, identity | Also tagged Chiapas, Oventic, Zapatistas | 7 Comments

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