Apropiación capitalista de la tierra y precarización de la vida comunal en la selva de los Chimalapas
This paper addresses the tensions around communal property and rural life in the Chimalapas jungle, located in the east of the state of Oaxaca, in Mexico. This territory, that ancestrally belonged to the ‘angpøn zoque people, has been the object of a long process of dispossession through land grabbi...
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Maestría en Estudios Latinoamericanos, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/mel/article/view/5592 |
| Sumario: | This paper addresses the tensions around communal property and rural life in the Chimalapas jungle, located in the east of the state of Oaxaca, in Mexico. This territory, that ancestrally belonged to the ‘angpøn zoque people, has been the object of a long process of dispossession through land grabbing and the exploitation of its resources. The objective of the text is, initially, to briefly review the development and consolidation of capitalist appropriation in the vast Zoque lands of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. I postulate that the advance of private property and the grabbing of Chimalapas lands was made possible, and even promoted, by the liberal policies of the 19th and 20th centuries. Subsequently, I report the Chimalapa community mobilization process that took place between the 1970s and 1990s in response to the rapid expansion of forestry companies and landowners in the eastern part of the territory. I focus on the central objectives of the community organization that led this movement, which were articulated around the recovery of land. Finally, I analyze the effects of the neoliberal decentralization of the last decade of the 20th century on the Chimalapa communities, along with the disruption and disarticulation of their peasant community practices as an expression of a precariousness exacerbated by the advance of the privatization of resources, which ultimately led to the decline of communal organization. |
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