Land, conflict, and political process: the case of the Lacandon Community, Chiapas, Mexico (1972-2012)
Por: Calleros Rodríguez, Héctor [autor/a].
Tipo de material: Artículo impreso(a) Tema(s): Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (México) | Conflicto agrario | Política agraria | Aspectos políticosDescriptor(es) geográficos: Selva Lacandona (Chiapas, México) En: The Journal of Peasant Studies. volumen 41, número 1-2 (March 2014), páginas 127-155. --ISSN: 0306-5150Número de sistema: 53604Resumen:Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca actual | Colección | Signatura | Info Vol | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras |
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This contribution analyses how indigenous land disputes have taken place within a political process and the political responses to land tenure disputes. It does so by analysing the case of the Comunidad Zona Lacandona (Lacandon Community; Chiapas, Mexico) and the land tenure disputes in which it has been involved during the period 1972-2012. The paper argues that the Lacandon Community (LC) has a micro-corporatist relationship with the state and that its creation has brought its beneficiaries (comuneros) into an ongoing dynamic of conflict and cooperation with the state, fellow landed communities, social and non-governmental organisations and guerrillas. By analysing its relationship with the state and the 40-year long conflict, the paper presents the way in which the LC has defended its land rights within institutional channels as well as by means of contentious action. The essay also shows how conflict has been dealt with within a political process and contributes to the theoretical understanding of the categories of micro-corporatism and political process as they are employed in those cases where indigenous peoples enter into conflict over land. Data for this paper comes from interviews, agrarian archives, public information requests, newspaper articles and ethnographies on the case study and the region. eng