Ni centro ni periferia: La construcción del Tercer Espacio en los textos del Subcomandante Marcos

In 2007, Subcomandante Marcos gives a series of seven conferences with the common title ‘Nor the Centre, Nor the Periphery’ about the zapatista struggle and the antisystemic movements. Even though the popularity and the repercussion of the zapatista movement is decreasing, Marcos makes an effort to combine theoretical reflections with practical experiences in order to promote an alternative discourse, opposed to the capitalist system. In this article, we consider texts to be the Third Space, that is, a place for questioning the dominant discourse, through the rejection of binary oppositions and the articulation of difference. In order to create this space, it is necessary to include different voices and social practices which alter the existing conventions and significations. Therefore, intertextuality and interdiscursivity are resources used to constitute a hybrid text which includes a plurality of identities and transgresses the norms which condition the textual production. Marcos combines several genres, such as argumentation, narration or dialogue, to offer other approaches to political discourse and the inclusion of certain external voices with the objective of strengthening a collective discourse.