Territorios de sacrificio. Un dispositivo biopolítico de control para la apropiación y degradación de la vida en México

Abstract

Through a historical and theoretical review of the urban planning of the state of Puebla in central Mexico, this text gives an account of the way in which the regional metabolism has led to the generation of sacrificial territories for the purpose of extraction and appropriation from the set of living forces or from the vital power on which capital feeds: energy, arable land, water assets and human labor. We investigate the proposal of the struggles of the South, from whom we return to the category of production of territories of sacrifice, as well as the analytical proposal of the bodies-territories as spaces of resistance of academics and feminist activists, to understand the logic of the degradation of the life of a particularly indigenous territory Santa María Zacatepec, Puebla, an indigenous people that for more than 10 years have resisted against the sacrificial projects.