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This article presents three ethnographic case studies that demonstrate some of the ways that local participants in oaxaca, mexico put marxist and other leftist discourses into practice as they seek to enact social and cultural change. In 2006, oaxaca, mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation. Reflections on the popular assembly of the peoples of oaxaca by a. Teaching rebellion by diana denham overdrive rakuten.
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