El pueblo me’phaa confronta el extractivismo minero. Ecología de saberes en la lucha jurídica
subject: Ecology of knowledge, Indigenous Peoples, Territory, extractivism, legal struggle, minning
description: 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.
creator: María Teresa Sierra
source: e-cadernos ces
publisher: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
date: 2017
relation: http://journals.openedition.org/eces/2553
coverage: Social sciences (General), General Works