Abstract
This paper uses the concept of sites of contentious (im)mobility to highlight the centrality of mobility for bio-politics. The article draws ethnographic evidence from the study of conservation and ecotourism practices in the Biosphere Reserve of Ría Celestún (Yucatán, México). Through the ethnographic attention to two disputes, the article shows how the biopolitical project associated to the conservation of biodiversity and the development of nature tourism has transformed the ria and the beach into two spaces of contentious immobility in which global flows (of people, capital and labour) are condensed and in which specific groups fight to stay still. In so doing, these groups use the global referents of biodiversity for their own local interests.
Highlights
This paper uses the concept of sites of contentiousmobility to highlight the centrality of mobility for bio-politics
En el contexto de las discusiones sobre biopolítica, la biodiversidad, y concretamente su articulación a través de Reservas de la Biosfera, ha sido concebida como uno de los proyectos clave en el avance de procesos de globalización hegemónica (Escobar, 2008; Quijano Valencia y Tobar, 2006)
Nuevos agentes como los lancheros turísticos de la ría y las artesanas de concha y caracol de la playa, se han apropiado del espacio y de los discursos asociados a la biodiversidad del área convirtiéndose en los guardianes de los flujos globales de turistas, capital y trabajo que ésta ha generado, y por ende, de las alternativas productivas en la comunidad
Summary
This paper uses the concept of sites of contentious (im)mobility to highlight the centrality of mobility for bio-politics.
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