Epistemological struggle and international organizing: applying the experience of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) has, as a Mayan
organization in modern, mestizo Mexico, challenged the epistemological hegemony of
modernity, from its own location and history, including both centuries of Western
economic domination and a wealth of organizing experiences over the past thirty years.
This provides an important reference point for ‘cross-border, cross-movement’
initiatives, appearing since the middle of the 1990s, that struggle against increasing
capitalist domination around the globe and which contain within them diverse
cosmovisions. These new spaces provide a possible location for confronting the modern
epistemology and the global domination that it justifies.