Geopolitical transformation in rural Mexico: toward new social and territorial boundaries in an indigenous municipality of central Mexico.

Correlates of Maize Land and Livelihood Change Among Maize Farming Households in Mexico

“…In the late 1980s, CONASUPO was procuring over 7% of the national supply from Mexico state (Appendini, 1988). Almost all of these programs were dismantled during the liberalization reforms in the 1990s; CONASUPO was closed in 1998 (Torres-Mazuera, 2013). 1 In addition, in 1992 an amendment to Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution passed, providing formal title to ejidal land (Cornelius & Myhre, 1998).…”

Scaling Migrant Worker Rights

“…The sustained level of protest among the peasantry since NAFTA has shown the resiliency of campesino identity and their resistance to displacement (Fox 1994). For example, Mexicans were able to diversify their income sources by pushing for government subsidies to blunt the impact of opening trade, and at the same time rural communities began accessing urban employment opportunities as well (Hoogesteger and Rivara 2021;Torres-Mazuera 2013).…”

Los nudos del ejido: disputas y relaciones intraejidales en Calakmul, Campeche

“…B. S. registro 16/04/12 Introducción A raíz de la reforma agraria de 1992 se han reconfigurado las disputas al interior de los ejidos respecto a los recursos naturales, los apoyos gubernamentales y los derechos sobre la tenencia de la tierra. El análisis se refiere con frecuencia a las paradojas del municipalismo y el agrarismo posrevolucionario (Azuela 1995;Baitenmann 2001;Léonard, Quesnel y Velázquez 2003;Trujillo 2012;Torres-Mazuera 2013a, 2013b, y a las encrucijadas provocadas por el proceso de amalgamado de ideas ecológicas y de desarrollo económico social (Haenn 2005;Isaac-Márquez et al 2008;Radel 2012;Schmook et al 2013;Cano Castellanos 2014). Estas investigaciones son un avance en el análisis de los cambios en el medio rural, sin embargo, se requieren estudios que den cuenta de nuevas formas de resistencia y del surgimiento de actitudes contestatarias frente a estas encrucijadas y paradojas (Cernea 1995).…”