An exploration of the Zapatista project, from its conception to the present. On the thirtieth anniversary of the Mayan Indigenous uprising in Chiapas, The Zapatista Experience reconstructs the trajectory of the Zapatista struggle over the last three decades, both in its concrete achievements and in its contributions to the renewal of critical and antisystemic thinking. The Zapatista rebellion has become a reference and source of inspiration for many struggles around the world due to its major contribution in reformulating a credible and desirable path to emancipation, a path that broke with previously dominant state-centric, productivist, Eurocentric, modernist, and patriarchal. Baschet demonstrates how the Zapatistas have succeeded in materializing, on a massive scale, the concrete experience of another way of living, a forerunner of possible emerging worlds.  The autonomous rebel territories of Chiapas are among the most developed and radical of the "real utopias" that exist in the world today, exceptional in their experiments in self-governance and anti-State political form, argues  Jérôme Baschet. The Zapatista Experience orients readers in the profusion of Zapatista writings concerning, for example, the elaboration of a different understanding of politics, the Zapatistas' planetary conjunctural analysis of capitalism as a total war against humanity, their conception of Indigeneity that breaks with both modernist individualism and identity politics, and their notion of time and history. All this in clear opposition to neoliberal capitalism.

About the Book HOW TWO PEOPLE FROM BANDRA BECAME URBAN FARMERS. When two spirited Bandra girls swap cappuccinos for cow dung, you know it's going to be a story worth telling. Two Bandra Girls Buy a Farm is a laugh-out-loud chronicle of what happens when city slickers with zero farming experience decide to 'go organic' in the unpredictable heart of Raigad.When Arti said yes to her friend Suzann's hare-brained scheme of buying land, she was pumped with post-lockdown confidence in her green thumb. Tomatoes and chillies were spilling out of her Bandra balcony garden, just like her enthusiasm for the farming life.From negotiating with sceptical villagers and unruly cows, every misstep becomes a lesson, and every harvest a tiny miracle. Yet beneath the comedy of errors lies something a fresh look at what it truly means to work with one's hands, live close to the land and make a small but genuine difference in the world.Witty, warm and wonderfully grounded, Arti's account of her adventures and misadventures with farming is for anyone who's ever dreamed of escaping the city-or at least laughing at someone else's attempt to do so.About the Author Arti Dwarkadas began her career in advertising before joining the dotcom revolution as creative director at rediff.com and later leading OgilvyInteractive India. A certified patisserie from Le Cordon Bleu, London, and a long-time urban balcony gardener, she co- founded Two Bandra Girls Organic Farm in rural Maharashtra in 2021. The ten-acre organic venture reshaped her understanding of food, sustainability and rural life.A lifelong storyteller, she has written extensively on food, travel and the restaurant scene. Two Bandra Girls Buy a Farm brings together her worlds of creativity, observation and hands-on learning, and is her debut book-one that reflects her enduring love for building something from the ground up, whether it's a brand, a story or a tomato plant. She lives in Mumbai with her husband, Sunil.