This collaboration is approaching the municipalization process of local government and indigenous on the other side of the same process: the indianization of the municipal government, in Latin America In the last three decades, in a broad...
This article explains why and how numerous smallholders have converted their land to oil palm in Soconusco and in the southern Lacandon rainforest of Chiapas. Based on a Gramscian political ecology perspective, it shows how the oil palm...
This article discusses the way in which the creation of the Costa Rican institutional warp and weft has been understood based on a revision of the Weberian model of bureaucracy. It analyzes the specific characteristics of public employment in...
Based upon a gramscian perspective, this paper seeks to explain how the relationship between the State and civil society generates a type of national project that impacts all its territories. Refering to mexican postrevolutionary experience, it...
In this paper the author presents a preliminary analysis of the topic of Michoacan’s communal courts, given legal status in 2007 by the state’s indigenous normative systems. The objective of this contribution is focused on clarifying whether...
ABSTRACTAfter three decades from the start of the transition to democracy, Ecuador faces now the challenge of giving content to the Plurinational State, approved in the Constitution of Montecristi in 2008. Despite this recent...
This paper first addresses the concepts of clientelism, paternalism, and simulation theoretically and then observes and analyzes these concepts in the case study of the Alliance of Rainforest Cocoa Producers, a non-profit organization, the...
This paper describes the process that a group of Nahua and similar communities from Tlaxcala demand regarding their right to name their authorities through community normative systems (the indigenous electoral law). The fight in the courts was...
Following the dawn of its Independence, the Mexican republic, among the many problematics ailing a new nation, had education as one of the great challenges for the State and Federal administrations. At a national scale, conservatively twenty...
Understanding has not been developed to date regarding the right to consultation as a citizen right that implies prior and informed consent by citizens regarding issues affecting them, and in particular as a collective right of indigenous...
Overview economic studies and financial of the Chiapas State are practically nil. Even as one of the key factors to understand the causes that originated the backwardness and marginalization, has not been an emphasis on design and expose this...
This article presents a review of how the rights of indigenous people and their communities have been legally recognized at a national and international level, as well as the legal and factual implications this has. From this review, an...
The claim of autonomy for indigenous peoples is expressed differently in each Mexican state. In Oaxaca, this claim overlaps demands for greater municipal independence. Paradoxically, in this case, the municipality is an scope in which different...
This document aims to demonstrate a set of macrosocial problems regarding the construction of religious human rights and the human rights of indigenous peoples in the international and national spheres, and how they are or are not considered by...
Reflecting on and generally discussing current constitutional changes in terms of uses of legal juridical instruments on the part not only of the operators of justice but also of indigenous individuals and collectives themselves has become a...
Social sciences have had to face the challenge of developing conceptual and analytic frameworks to approach the transformation processes in contemporary societies. Important challenges are faced in the fields of economic development,...
The case of Soconusco’s «neutrality» and its inclusion as part of Mexico is still being discussed in academic circles. The clergy’s action in the dispute over this territory between Mexico and Central America/Guatemala has not yet been fully...
This paper describes how the student movements in El Salvador and Mexico perform annual commemorations of the massacres they suffered and explains why it is so important for them to continue the memory of the «martyrs». It also shows how these...
This article analyzes the two faces of indigenism in Los Altos de Chiapas during the government of Efraín Gutiérrez (1936-1940) in the state: on the one hand, indigenism by the federal government, through the Department of Indigenous Affairs...
Post-revolutionary Mexican historiography has fostered a legend that blames to a high degree to the delimiting and colonizing companies (1875-1902) of appropriating the communal lands, supported by the federal judicial apparatus and taking...
A series of political events reported in indigenous municipalities in Chiapas State has reopened a debate about cultural rights and their recognition in Chiapas State. Occurring within an atmosphere in which the ruling political class was...
This paper analyzes the signing of the peace agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC by its acronym in Spanish) and the Colombian government in 2016 based on the construction of an analytical framework combining...
San Cristóbal de Las Casas was the political and ecclesiastical capital of Chiapas during the Colonyand the first half of the 19th century, which led to the concentration of wealth among the clergysecular and regular of that city. The...
On May 18, 2011, the First Discussion Forum on Municipal Political Reform organized by IGLOM was held at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte Sede Ciudad de México. It was attended by prominent researchers and members of the Senate of the...
This article presents and examines a new tool in the territory of public policies: Participatory Budgeting. The analysis is carried out through a double lens: Participatory Budgeting as an instrument of municipal management and as an experience...
Public health policies and the effective fulfillment on the part of the State of the right to health are analyzed from the human rights perspective with respect to the current health conditions and access to health services of the native...
Marta Lamas’s book entitled Dolor y política: Sentir, pensar y hablar desde el feminismo (that could translate as, Pain and Politics: Feeling, Thinking, and Speaking from a Feminist Perspective) encourages the reader to...
The escalation of violence experienced since 2006 in the Western state of Michoacan, Mexico, has significantly affected the regions of Tierra Caliente, Sierra Costa and Meseta Purépecha. This article addresses two cases of indigenous...
This paper analyzes the socio-political transformation processes in the Lacandon rainforest based on three main topics that have turned this territory into a region of development: colonial extractivism, rural development, and sustainable...
En este aporte, mostramos cómo los imaginarios y prácticas en torno a la autoridad local (sintonía) se construyen históricamente y continúan hasta el presente en los 'residuos del poder', un capital simbólico que refuerza la subordinación....
This article discusses whether Baja California, a northern border Mexican state, has an endogenous local development dynamic, or its achievements in economic growth rest on a weak economic base with a high level of exogenous dependency. Being...
This paper analyzes a shelter for migrants named La 72 Hogar-Refugio para personas migrantes (Number 72, A Shelter for Migrants), located in the municipality of Tenosique, Tabasco State, Mexico, on the border with Guatemala....
World Bank «recommendations» on agrarian matters in Mexico were duly instated in legislative reforms approved in 1992. These changes aimed to provide legal security to large investors, real estate developers, and transnational corporations,...
Local development and decentralization of the State are two issues that have takenrelevance, they are gaining ground in Latin America and we find them placedas priority points in many national agendas at the beginning of the 21st century.They...
This article approaches the discourse and practices of two organizations of the Maya Mam people located in the Mexico-Guatemala transborder region. On the one hand, there is the non-profit civic association called Conciencia Cultural Mam (Mam...
This paper aims to analyze how the convergence of agrarian legislation, the tension between the Chiapas state’s executive branch and local congresspeople, and the national government’s claim for exclusive dominion over wastelands caused an...
This article analyzes the participation of the Independent Central of Agricultural Workers and Peasants (CIOAC) in Chiapas, in the framework of the national peasant struggle. Highlight their organizing and union in the state. Detail the role of...
This article carries out a historiographic assessment of the authoritarian regimes installed in Central America during the 1930s. Four sources were selected and analyzed for this assessment. The article first explains three themes that emerge...
This article examines the collective identity forged by everyday life in autonomous Zapatista communities in Chiapas. It develops three arguments: 1. The persistence of the Zapatista movement 20 years after its public emergence largely due to...
This article focuses on the situation faced by indigenous peoples in Mexico with regard to processes of territorial dispossession and forced displacement of populations in response to private interests, as well as the impact these processes...
Relevant cases addressed by the authorities of the study community are presented, some of them witnessed first-hand and others reconstructed through narrations and a few documents. A parallel reflection is developed on the criteria for their...
This article aims to demonstrate whether the public policies in effect in the Estado de México regarding the aging population do respond to the needs perceived by this sector of individuals. It is based on ethnographic work conducted in 12...
This article analyzes a specific form of struggle that exists within the context of the various forms of conflict that have been emerging in the last twenty years both in Argentina and the region. Combining different sources of information, it...
In Mexico, watershed-based planning included water administration and management by means of constructing hydroelectric plants. The main aim was to supply electric power to a fast growing national industry. The Miguel Alemán Hydroelectric...
This paper aims to characterize the Chiapanecans migrating to Tijuana and their insertion into the labor market in Tijuana. The research is based on an analysis of the weighted samples of the 2000-2016 Survey of Migration at the North Border of...
This paper presents a theoretical model of restorative justice for the case of the Yaquis or Yoeme communities living along the River and those in Southern California. It analyzes the relationship that this ethnic community has with...
The article tends to demonstrate that GTL is not the obstacle for recognition of juridical pluralism, but rather the hegemonic needs of the modern State itself. Contemporary General Theory of Law (GTL) offers theoretical concepts that...
This article applies a legal anthropology approach to exploration and development of new research practices in the human rights field, based on the experience accumulated in recent years by the Inter-American Institute on Human Rights. The...
This work aims to analyze the actual participation of indigenous public officials –councilors– within the municipal administration of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. It attempts to analyze the effective role of these public officials in the...
In this article the author explores how the Mayans from Yucatan use silence as one of their main strategies to resist assimilation, suggesting that this helps explain their indifference toward the recently approved legislation to protect their...
On the basis of reflexive ethnography, the author focuses on the political participation that has taken place to date as a result of the organization and resistance during the internal armed conflict in Guatemala. This is the case of the people...
In this essay, the role of the first division team, the Jaguars, is addressed in the contextof the reality of Chiapas. The ability of soccer to create symbols that conform“Communities of identification” and “integration of diversity” are...
The integration of the private sector into comprehensive management of urban solid waste in the municipality of Ciudad Juárez shows a new institutional mechanism to operate a public service that has fulfilled the improvement and efficiency...
The document refers to the recent evolutionary trajectory of migratory destinations of the Chiapanecan population. It explains why immigrants from Chiapas inserted themselves into the immigration flow to the United States of America later than...
The commercial fairs in Guatemala and El Salvador during the nineteenth century were very active spaces for economic exchange and social gathering, but what was reported in the Guatemalan and Salvadoran press about these fairs? And how were...
This research analyzes the configuration of the intergenerational historical discourse corresponding to Emilio Rabasa Estebanell, a lawyer from Chiapas identified as one of the ideologues who influenced the 1917 Mexican Political Constitution....
Review. In August 2005, the Mexico-Guatemala Colloquium was held in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. State and citizenship, and twelve of the works presented there now make up this volume. On the subject of the role of the State and citizens,...
This paper focuses on analyzing the role played by the local elite in achieving the nomination of Coatepec, Veracruz as a magical village, part of the Magical Villages Program. A qualitative method was used based on semi-structured interviews...
This paper highlights the process of agency in the experience of social and labor reintegration of Mexicans deported from the United States. Throughout the analysis of seven digital narratives included in an archive entitled Humanizing...
This article views the emergence of the notion of good living (buen vivir), associated to development models in Latin American countries. It analyzes the possible legal consequences derived from the inclusion of the notion of respect for nature...
This paper reviews the possible effects of indigenous electoral reforms in the municipalities in the Oaxacan Mixe region, comparing political tendencies prior to reforms, as observed in field research, with results from federal elections in...
Since 1992, some states of the Mexican Republic started to develop English language programs in elementary schools on their own initiative. This paper explores the context of this phenomenon and looks into the origins of this tendency, the kind...
This article employs Los wixaritari: el espacio compartido y la comunidad (translatable to The Wixaritari: Shared Space and the Community) by Héctor Medina Miranda (2020), a book on the history and anthropology of the indigenous peoples of the...
This paper describes the phenomena of migration and labor mobility in two rural towns of Acacoyagua Municipality in the Soconusco region of Chiapas. In the twenty-first century, the inhabitants have been entered into the international and...
Today it is increasingly difficult to regard nature as an element that is external to and independent from society. Processes such as climate change, deforestation and the loss of biodiversity are some of the signs of human beings’ capacity to...
This paper refers to the opportunity that can represent the intercultural education for re-meaning the gender, class and ethnic identities. The work is a reflection from the investigation made in the municipality of San Andrés Larráinzar or...
The years immediately following Mexican and Central American Independence (1824) were full of power struggles in the two republics, struggles which crossed the international border. This paper discusses articles (1831-32) from a weekly...
This text analyzes the process of emergence and organization of the solidary economy in Brazil, taking as reference the experience of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in which a series of factors —related to history, the social and political...
In the last 30 to 40 years the conceptualization of development has been under discussion. The same term now has many names: human, regional, sustainable, endogenous, territorial, local. Likewise, the forms of development management have varied...
This paper analyzes how different journalists, intellectuals, and outstanding members of the political, cultural, and economic community in Costa Rica presented the Sandinistas and their administration during the 1982 to 1985 period. It posits...
Sugarcane cultivation is part of an agricultural tradition established during the colonial period. During that time, sugarcane production was organized by large land holdings known as haciendas. This has changed. With the revolutionary...
Throughout the years, protected natural areas have been gaining increasing importance as a tool through which international organizations can preserve ecosystems. However, some of these protected areas are often established in previously...
The objective of this article is to present the work that the Argentine National University of Tres de Febrero has been developing in the practically unexplored field of public engagement with culture, based on a research project on Cultural...
This paper analyzes the case of a healer of African descent judged by the Inquisition. A convergence of indigenous, Spanish, and British healing knowledge was learned and applied in communities surrounding the Royal Road to Campeche and La...
A letter written in 1848 by Patricio Correa, the priest of Zinacantán, preserved in the Diocesan Archive of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, refers to a protracted agrarian conflict between Chiapa and Zinacantán that dates back to the 16th century...
In recent decades, the heterogeneity of migrant actors has become evident. This demonstrates how the serious consequences of globalization have deepened differences, reduced the quality of life or increased the difficulties people face on a day...
The aim of this paper is to propose some reflections on the relationships they establish the 47 rural communities in the municipality of Merida, in the context of their daily contact with the city and the liberal economic processes, through...
Approximately 224 campesino farming organizations currently exist in Mexico that directly export their coffee, sporting certification seals of solidarity-based and organic agricultural practices. Beyond the advantages this social process has...
In the 1980s, extermination campaigns were carried out in parallel in El Salvador and Guatemala. This paper offers elements to sustain that the armies of both countries faced the challenge of insurgency by implementing similar mechanisms of...
This paper analyses changes occurred within paradigms in bureaucratic organizations, aiming at proving the quality of the services offered to the citizens. The posbureaucratic paradigm implies a course change that questions from the own...
Review of: Decentralization, local development and governance in Central America offers a remarkable example of the richness and significance of the contemporary Latin American debate on local development.
Between urbanization and globalization, rural spaces are experiencing fundamental changes. It is particularly the case in Brazil, major agriculture power, where many agrarian models are overlapping, among these the agribusiness and the family...
This essay is part of a broader study aimed at reflecting upon what it means to be indigenous in an urban setting such as that of San Cristóbal de las Casas in the Mexican state of Chiapas. In general terms, the content of the essay corresponds...
This work tries to analyze the relationship of the press with the administration of Absalón Castellanos Domínguez, who governed Chiapas from 1982 to 1988, which was reflected in a journalism that ignored the entity's social problems and...
This paper aims to analyze the projects sent to the Courts of Cádiz by the provinces of the Kingdom of Guatemala. It intends to discern the nuances of the theory about the search for autonomy from Spain used to interpret the actions regarding...
Guatemala's entry into the coffee agro-export economy in the 19th centuryinvolved the application of various mechanisms of labor restraint aimed at mobilizingworkers - especially indigenous people - from the areas where they resided to those...
The study of environmental governance allows for an understanding of issues related to fishing. Although information is relevant as a power-related element, governance studies have hardly addressed it. By studying the role information plays in...
Water resources, which are characterized by scarcity and depletion, assume the emergence of water-saving behaviors that contrast with beliefs that water is abundant which are associated with wasteful behaviors. Such relationships intensify as...
This article analyzes one of the strategies that indigenous peoples used todefend their territorial assets and resources during the first half of the 19th century. In abroader framework, the legislation that affected theterritorial issues such...
The Sumak Kawsay Yuyay book that I review here is the product of the inter-institutional collaboration that since September 2013 has forged the University of Huelva, Spain, and the University of Cuenca, Ecuador. Such a cultural, academic and...
To speak of the land and its control in an eminently agricultural state such as the nineteenth century Chiapas is to speak at the same time of the population and its distribution in the geographical space, of power relations, of inter-ethnic...
This paper analyzes regulated labor migrations with H2-A visas for temporary agricultural workers who migrate to Elba, New York, United States, and the impact it has had on the indigenous community of Comachuén, Michoacán, Mexico. The objective...
This article approaches how property rights were shaped in the city of Antigua Guatemala, based on the hypothesis that this municipality had a government that upheld liberal values within an organic framework of the Old Regime. It also studies...
Carnivals are opportunities to understand a wide range of dynamics, processes, and historical periods. Analyzing them implies more than a simple description or an isolated glance. In the emerging field of carnival studies, it is necessary to...
This review addresses the study of the demarcation of idle land carried out by colonizing companies in the State of Chiapas during the period of 1881-1917, and their main conclusions are examinated in discussion with the revolutionary and...