Neil Harvey

Neil Harvey is a professor and academic department head in the Government Department at New Mexico State University. He has carried out field research in Chiapas, Mexico, into their independent peasant movements, land conflicts and agrarian reform. He has also been researching the causes of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas in 1994 as well as the subsequent development of autonomous governments run by Indigenous communities. He is the author of The Chiapas Rebellion: A Study of the 1994 Zapatista Uprising