Consultas, Corporations, and Governance in Tehuantepec, Mexico

Friede, Stephanie; Lehmann, Rosa

doi:10.1080/10402659.2016.1130388

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“…Local asambleas have demanded that their right to consultation be protected, but often there is no external supervision of this consultation process. It is also possible for local actors to use consultation processes to leverage their own political power in the region, for example by individuals making agreements on behalf of communities in return for favours (Friede and Lehmann, 2016).…”

Section: The Shift To Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conquest by Contract: Property Rights and the Commercial Logic of Imperialism in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Southern Mexico)

McClure

2022

Bull Latin American Res

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Property rights and contracts were important to the legal foundations of the Spanish Empire from the sixteenth century. The recognition of the property rights of indigenous people was part of the legal foundations of empire, but offered weak protection from the commercial logic of imperialism. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the national and international recognition of indigenous property rights has increased at the same time that indigenous property has been threatened by the expansion of commercial interests in the name of development. Focusing on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (southern Mexico), this article charts the historic tension between indigenous property rights and the expansion of commercial interests, and how, despite new rhetoric about protecting local communities and their natural resources, the shift to 'sustainable development' has not changed these dynamics.

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Section: The Shift To Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conquest by Contract: Property Rights and the Commercial Logic of Imperialism in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Southern Mexico)

McClure

2022

Bull Latin American Res

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“…Another example is the role the municipality of Juchitán played during the consultation process. While negotiating benefits for the municipality with company representatives behind closed doors, then mayor Vicente Vázquez (2013Vázquez ( -2015, a member of the UN Permanent Forum of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, fended off political pressure from landholders and PRI affiliates who sought to speed up the consultation process to the detriment of those demanding a more inclusive process (Friede and Lehmann 2016;Gerber 2015); he thus maneuvered state selectivities strategically by allying with different actors in varying instances of the process.…”

Section: Mobilizing Scalar Strategiesmentioning

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Scalar Struggles: The Selectivity of Development Governance in Southern Mexico

Lehmann

Jenss²

2022

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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So-called development projects in rural Mexico are heavily contested. Changes in institutional design have had little effect in mediating the exclusivity of the political decision-making processes defining such projects. Why, and how, has the Mexican state been able to maintain a developmentalist agenda, despite growing pressures to incorporate participatory development institutions and consult Indigenous peoples about development projects? This article introduces the geographic concept of scale and the concept of the state’s heterogeneous selectivities into debates on participation to study the politics of development projects. It analyzes the potential and existing obstacles to political participation for Indigenous networks and activists in the corresponding planning processes across institutional scales, examining protest against wind energy development in the state of Oaxaca and the project of “rural cities” in the state of Chiapas. Rather than two separate cases for comparison, both examples represent different planning processes involving the same heterogeneous state and the same promise of progress.

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“…Article 1 of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 169 (ratified by Mexico) recognizes the right of Indigenous communities to be consulted about development projects that pose risks to them or their territories. Nonetheless, attempts to implement this standard in Mexico have been fraught with serious irregularities (Freide and Lehmann 2016; Gomez Rivera 2013; Rea Granados 2015). 6 Most communities affected by development projects do not find out about them until the MIA has already been approved—or when work crews show up.…”

Section: “Manifestations Of Environmental Cynicism”: the Politics Of Willful Ignorancementioning

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“Countering Documents with Documents”: The Politics of Independent Environmental Auditing in Mexico

Richard

2021

PoLAR

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Environmental impact statements are designed to enable rational calculation of the ecological risks of proposed development projects and to serve as a basis for institutional decision making. In Mexico, a neo‐extractivist “boom” has led to massive ecosystem loss and environmental activists are increasingly under threat of violence. Now these same activists and the residents affected by development projects have targeted these bureaucratic instruments as key points of legal intervention and political mobilization. This article analyzes how volunteer scientists conduct independent audits of environmental impact statements and how their work provides the grounds for critiquing the state's performance of public reason. Independent audit constitutes an innovative form of administrative politics that seeks simultaneously to hold bureaucrats accountable and open the decision‐making process to the participation of excluded actors. [expertise, governance, environmental movements, science, Mexico]

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Consultas, Corporations, and Governance in Tehuantepec, Mexico

Cited by 12 publications

References 3 publications

Conquest by Contract: Property Rights and the Commercial Logic of Imperialism in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Southern Mexico)

Conquest by Contract: Property Rights and the Commercial Logic of Imperialism in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Southern Mexico)

Scalar Struggles: The Selectivity of Development Governance in Southern Mexico

“Countering Documents with Documents”: The Politics of Independent Environmental Auditing in Mexico

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