Jerome Baschet

Jérôme Baschet is a historian teaching at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas in San Cristóbal de las Casas. In studying the Zapatista struggle he found a tangible example of a real utopia and a powerful source of inspiration both to rethink his work as a historian and to reopen critical reflections on possible post-capitalist worlds. Baschet is the author of a dozen books. The Zapatista Experience is the first of his books to be...See more

Jérôme Baschet is a historian teaching at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas in San Cristóbal de las Casas. In studying the Zapatista struggle he found a tangible example of a real utopia and a powerful source of inspiration both to rethink his work as a historian and to reopen critical reflections on possible post-capitalist worlds. Baschet is the author of a dozen books. The Zapatista Experience is the first of his books to be translated into English. See less