Geoffrey Pleyers

Geoffrey Pleyers is FNRS researcher and professor at the Université de Louvain, Belgium and associate researcher at the Collège d'Etudes Mondiales. He is the president of the Research Committee 47 "Social classes and social movements" of the International Sociological Association. He is the author of "Alter-Globalization. Becoming Actors in the Global Age" (Polity, 2011). Visit his website.

Mexico: the Volcano of Resistance Is About to Explode

Mexico is a volcano, and the beauty and frailty of the snow gracing its peaks hide a scalding reality. An instability that at any given moment could explode.

Geoffrey Pleyers
Manuel Garza Zepeda
By Geoffrey Pleyers
And Manuel Garza Zepeda
People protesting against human trafficking and slavery raise their fists during a demonstration in Mexico City, Oct. 14, 2017. (AP/Marco Ugarte)

For those interested in social movements, the 21st century began in Mexico with the uprising of the indigenous Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas. Their fight has been a source of inspiration for many other revolutionary movements around the world. During the following years, Mexican civil society acquired a certain prominence in the so-called

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