El pueblo me’phaa confronta el extractivismo minero. Ecología de saberes en la lucha jurídica

El pueblo me’phaa confronta el extractivismo minero. Ecología de saberes en la lucha jurídica

María Teresa Sierra

In this essay, I approach the experience of an indigenous people in Mexico who managed to defy and halt mining extractivism through legal struggle and social mobilization. Two aspects are salient: a) the way in which their own legal system and their own forms of knowledge enter legal discourse and challenge it to take into account other worldviews; b) the impact of those processes on collective identities and the reshaping of territorial autonomies. From this perspective I analyse the scope and limits of an ecology of knowledge in the judicial process and the role of anthropological discourse in its construction.

2017

Ecology of knowledge, Indigenous Peoples, Territory, extractivism, legal struggle, minning

10.4000/eces.2553

e-cadernos ces

Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra

Social sciences (General), General Works