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Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state's violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as "bad guys" with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes the landowners of Chiapas seriously, asking why coffee planters and cattle ranchers with a long and storied history of violent responses to agrarian conflict reacted to land invasions triggered by the Zapatista Rebellion of 1994 with quiescence and resignation rather than thugs and guns. In the process, he offers a unique ethnographic and historical glimpse into conflicts that have been understood almost exclusively through studies of indigenous people and movements.Weaving together ethnography, archival research, and cultural history, Bobrow-Strain argues that prior to the upheavals of 1994 landowners were already squeezed between increasingly organized indigenous activism and declining political and economic support from the Mexican state. He demonstrates that indigenous mobilizations that began in 1994 challenged not just the economy of estate agriculture but also landowners' understandings of progress, masculinity, ethnicity, and indigenous docility. By scrutinizing the elites' responses to land invasions in relation to the cultural politics of race, class, and gender, Bobrow-Strain provides timely insights into policy debates surrounding the recent global resurgence of peasant land reform movements. At the same time, he rethinks key theoretical frameworks that have long guided the study of agrarian politics by engaging political economy and critical human geography's insights into the production of space. Describing how a carefully defended world of racial privilege, political dominance, and landed monopoly came unglued, Intimate Enemies is a remarkable account of how power works in the countryside.

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Duke University Press

Date de parution

27 juin 2007

Nombre de lectures

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9780822389521

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English

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a a r o n b o b r o w - s t r a i n Intimate Enemies l a n d o w n e r s , p o w e r , a n d v i o l e n c e i n c h i a p a s

Intimate Enemies

a a r o n b o b r o w - s t r a i n 8

Intimate Enemies

Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas

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Contents

8 List of Illustrationsvii Acknowledgmentsix Abbreviations and Acronymsxiii

I. Rethinking Thuggery 1. Introduction 3 2. Honest Shadows: Ethnography and Ordinary Tyrants 16 3. Landed Relations, Landowner Identities: Race, Space, Power, and Political Economy 32

II. Estate Formations 4. Children of the Magic Fruit: The Making of a Landed Elite, 1850–1920 49 5. Killing Pedro Chulín: Landowners, Revolution, and Reform, 1920–1962 80 6. The Dead at Golonchán: Cattle, Crisis, and Conﬂict, 1962–1994 105

III. Contours of Quiescence 7. The Invasions of 1994–1998: Estate Agriculture Unglued 133 8. Import-Substitution Dreaming: Producing Landowners’ Place in the Nation 158 9. Geographies of Fear, Spaces of Quiescence 184 10. The Agrarian Spiral 208

Notes221 Glossary245 Bibliography247 Index265

Illustrations and Maps

8 Illustrations 1. Headquarters of a Zapatista autonomousmunicipioon a former cattle ranch 5 2. Roberto Trujillo Vera 20 3. Prominent ladinos of Chilón, c. 1920 34 4. An indigenous worker dries co√ee beans on the patio of a ladino estate, 2001 63 5. Peasant-produced co√ee beans drying on a road 86 6. Ladino landowners, c. 1940 97 7. A landowner confronts an indigenous invader of his estate, July 1998 134 8. Idealized landscape of ladino production 160 9. An indigenous settlement andmilpasrise out of invaded cattle pastures 161 10. Local Cattlemen’s Association meeting, June 2005 210 11. Indigenous merchants and transport trucks, Chilón 213 12. Juan Trujillo’s newly constructed home and dental o≈ce 215

Maps Map 1. Chiapas 6 Map 2. Departments of Chiapas, 1910 50 Map 3. Chilón’s estates, c. 1950–1960 84 Map 4. Regions of Chiapas 140

Acknowledgments

8 This book owes a great deal to a great many people. Roberto Trujillo welcomed me to Chilón and embraced my project with enthusiasm. He provided many of my initial contacts, spent long hours answering my endless questions, and, along with Gloria Trujillo, gave me a place to live in Chilón and a place at their table in the Restaurant Susy. The willingness of many landowners and former landowners in Chilón, Sitalá, Yajalón, and elsewhere to talk with me about their lives and troubles made this project possible. I especially thank Delio Ballinas del Carpio, Alejandro Díaz, Oscar and María Franz, Wenceslao and Deyanira López, Israel Gutiérrez, Samuel Rodríguez Sr. and Jr., Carlos and Amparo Setzer, and Miguel Utrilla for long conversations and countless cups of co√ee. Alí Reyes, a schoolteacher and town historian, o√ered many critical insights and served as a great sounding board for my ideas. I am also grateful to the sta√ at Chilón’s Centro de Derechos Indígenas for their openness to my project. Hubert Cartón de Grammont and Sara María Lara Flores played key roles in the early stages of my work. Hubert generously o√ered institutional a≈liation with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México’s Proyecto Interinstitucional de Investigaciones sobre el Campo en México. Hubert and Sara also introduced me to Jorge Martínez, my ﬁrst contact with a Chiapan landowner. During my ﬁrst research trip, Jorge picked up the phone and set up meetings for me with landowner relatives and friends all over north and north-central Chiapas. Jorge told me that he engaged with my project on both emotional and intellectual levels, seeing it as part of his process of working through the loss of his family’s estate to land invaders. I fear I may have taken my research in directions that Jorge and many of the other landowners cited above, may not approve of, but I believe my

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