Insurgencias rururbanas. Los pueblos originarios frente a los megaproyectos de la Ciudad de México

Abstract

ArAch, LinAres & hocsmAn Insurgencias rururbanas ÀGORA jects. We call them Rururban Insurgencies because they are more than resistance movements, and because their internal organization and their arguments overstep the dividing line that distinguishes and hierarchizes the urban and the rural. Located in the unique territoriality of a thousand-year-old city, they disrupt the processes of capital accumulation, challenge the underlying dichotomies and hierarchies of modernity, and promote visions of alternative developments in a context of crisis of civilization and global environmental deterioration.

Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: Resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities in Mexico City

“…This period of land reform ended in 1992, with a constitutional amendment that allowed privatization of communal lands (Jones & Ward, 1998; Lerner et al., 2018) and resulted in the conversion of green areas into new urban developments. Due to rapid urban growth over the last 30 years, communal lands were annexed to areas inhabited by indigenous, which were historically rural areas developed independently from Mexico City (Arach et al., 2018; Medina, 2009). These indigenous areas are territorial units preserving and reproducing totally or partially their own social, economic, cultural, and political institutions, establishing their political status with juridical personality, and own patrimony and right to self‐determination (SEPI, 2019).…”