The Book
After centuries of colonization, the ongoing struggle to preserve communal knowledge, rituals, language, traditions, and teaching and learning practices has taken on even more significance in the increasingly standardized world of globalization. For many indigenous societies, protecting community-based customs has involved the rejection of state-provided education, raising a series of interconnected issues regarding autonomy, modernity and cultural sustainability.
In New World of Indigenous Resistance, these questions are approached from multiple perspectives by means of an innovative exchange between linguist and human rights advocate Noam Chomsky, and more than twenty scholars, activists and educators from across the Americas.
In response to Chomsky’s ideas, voices from Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, the United States, and Uruguay draw from their first-hand experience and scholarship, speaking to, with, and at times against Chomsky’s views.
The Author(s)
Lois Meyer is an applied linguist and Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, U.S.A., and a close collaborator with the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and Promoters of Oaxaca (CMPIO).
Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado is a Mexican anthropologist specialising in indigenous education who has lived in Oaxaca for thirty years, collaborating with various indigenous organizations and carrying out ethnographic studies among the Mixe, Mazateco and Chatino peoples.
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Hemispheric Conversation among Equals
by Lois Meyer
- INTERVIEWS WITH NOAM CHOMSKY
Resistance and Hope: The Future of Comunalidad in a Globalized World
Interview with Noam Chomsky by Lois Meyer, 2004
Video Message to the Second National Congress of Indigenous & Intercultural Education
by Noam Chomsky, 2007
The Imperial State and Hope from inside Indigenous America
Interview with Noam Chomsky by Lois Meyer, 2007
- COMMENTARIES ON CHOMSKY FROM THE INDIGENOUS AMERICAS
- The Fourth Principle
Jaime Martínez Luna, Mexico
- Noam Chomsky and Indigenous Education in Oaxaca, Mexico
Fernando Soberanes Bojórquez, Mexico
- Beyond Education
Gustavo Esteva, Mexico
- Chomsky as Hope
Fausto Sandoval Cruz, Mexico
- Views from the Hemisphere of Resistance
María Bertely Busquets, Mexico
- Resistance and Cultural Work in Times of War
Elsie Rockwell, Mexico
- Political Uses of Interculturalidad: Citizenship and Education
Marcela Tovar Gómez, Mexico
- Politicization of Comunalidad and the Demand for Autonomy
Gunther Dietz, Mexico
- Democracy and Changes in Latin American Education: Lessons from the Guatemalan and Bolivian Indigenous Cases
Luis Enrique López, Guatemala
- Indigenous Education and “Living Well”: An Alternative in the Midst of Crisis
Ruth Moya Torres, Guatemala
- Repress Ideas to Consolidate Nation-States . . . or Re-create Ways of Thinking to Strengthen Balance
Guillermo Chen Morales, Guatemala
- Reading Noam Chomsky from an Educational Experience of the Kuna People of Panama
Rueter Orán Bodin and Kikadir Yadira Orán, Panama
- Abya Yala and the Decolonization of Democracy, Knowledge, Education, and the State
Luis Macas Ambuludí, Ecuador
- Kichwa Resistance in Ecuador
María Yolanda Terán, Ecuador
- Indigenous Peoples Contesting State Nationalism and Corporate Globalism
Stefano Varese, Peru
- Education from Inside Deep America
Grimaldo Rengifo Vásquez, Peru
- The Path of Decolonization
Carlos Mamani Condori, Bolivia
- Aymara Resistance
Felipe Quispe Huanca, Bolivia
- Changing Mirrors: Looking at Ourselves in Latin America
Norma Giarracca, Argentina
- The Complex Decolonization of the School
Raúl Zibechi, Uruguay
- U.S. Imperialism and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Glenabah Martinez, U.S.A.
- FOLLOW-UP INTERVIEW WITH NOAM CHOMSKY
Reflections on a Hemispheric Conversation among Equals
Interview with Noam Chomsky by Lois Meyer, 2009
- A FINAL COMMENTARY
- Comunalidad and the Education of Indigenous Peoples
by Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado
- CONCLUSION
An Open-Ended Closing
by Lois Meyer, Julianna Kirwin, and Erin Tooher
Index