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Indigenous Affinities: Toward Solidarity Across the Global South

Indigenous Affinities: Toward Solidarity Across the Global South

Eqeiq, Amal

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Literary CriticismIndigenous StudiesMexican History

ISBN10: 1531510280
ISBN13: 9781531510282
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarity

Inspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities examines the multifaceted connection between Chiapas and Palestine. In tracing unseen threads that connect parallel geographies of struggle found in contemporary Mayan and Palestinian narratives, Indigenous Affinities proposes affinity as a new conceptual framework. Eqeiq shows how--despite emerging from distinct historical processes of minoritization, subalternization, and racialization--Mayan and Palestinian written, visual, and performance texts articulate a common configuration of Indigeneity. These seemingly unrelated connections, Eqeiq contends, can be read through shared histories of land struggle, practices of autonomy, quests for liberation, and collective resistance to racial capitalism, military oppression, and colonial violence.

Eqeiq examines murals that offer a visual testimony to common struggles and transnational connection, explores fragmented bilingualisms that have propelled language revival and revitalization, highlights a shared concern with borders, and documents the performative commemorations of massacres. Reading such sites together in the complexities and specificities of disparate contexts, Indigenous Affinities illuminates how the lens of affinity can elucidate solidarity and resistance within the Global South.

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