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

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 c...

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Main Author: María Teresa Sierra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2017-12-01
Series:e-cadernos ces
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/eces/2553
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1647-0737