Sense Of Territoriality Research Articles

Border Tensions for Rethinking Communication and Development: A Case of Building History in Ticoya Resguardo

This article proposes rethinking communication, development, and social change from a decolonial perspective through the case study of the Ticoya resguardo. It examines how the oral traditions of Indigenous elders construct a history of the territory, positioning orality as a practice of communicative and cognitive justice that transcends the dominant structures of the nation-state. Border tensions are explored both as a physical reality between Colombia and Peru and as a metaphor for identity conflicts. The theoretical framework incorporates debates on post-development, pluriverse, and southern epistemologies, challenging social inequalities. A qualitative methodology based on the praxeological method was implemented in four stages in collaboration with the resguardo’s communications committee. Producing a radio series narrated by participants was crucial for gathering the elders’ narratives through conversations, social mapping, and storytelling. The findings emphasize the break with linear temporality in narratives, the sense of territory beyond state borders, and the identity tensions of river dwellers. The conclusion underscores the necessity of a decolonial perspective, recognizing the impact of monocultures in obscuring diverse forms of life. The Ticoya resguardo case illustrates how communicative justice can highlight the local and everyday, considering the territory essential in the pluriverse, aligning with Escobar’s and Santos’ proposals on transitions toward a pluriversal world.

The emotional structuring of the Andean territory: Mapping embodied narratives in Coporaque, Peru

This research explores the subject of territory, understood based on the life world of Andean inhabitants of the Colca Valley (Arequipa, Peru), who are descendants of ancient local Indigenous groups that, since prehistoric times, have known how to adapt to the rugged geographical reality of the Andes. Through a phenomenological approach, which assesses the subjective experience, it was possible to corroborate the existence of routine patterns of spatiality that preserve the emotional essence of past territorial conceptions, which have prevailed despite the hegemonic impositions systematically forced upon the land ever since the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Through carrying out coexistence fieldwork in situ, five layers of territorial sense have been registered, which, besides being very useful in order to optimize and give coherence to their agricultural and animal husbandry tasks, are periodically represented through verbal and corporal narratives, which have been mapped in this work in order to make their dynamics of symbolization visible and to conclude in the existence of an emotional Andean territory.

The Home and the World: Queering Diaspora and Recasting the Nation in Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango

This article attends to the legacies of Indian Ocean migrations in the construction of women as integral to the territorial sense of Indian nationhood. Specifically, it examines Mauritian writer Ananda Devi’s novel Indian Tango (2007), which rewrites Satyajit Ray’s cinematic adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare-Baire (1916) from a transnational queer feminist perspective. Tracing the novel’s historical intertexts in Indian nationalist and anti-indenture discourses, the article argues that Devi reorients feminine desire towards an erotic autonomy that reimagines diasporic affiliation through queer kinship, challenging the control of female sexuality within the heterosexual family as the basis of the nation.

Margins, flows and crossing points: France's liquid territory

In his accounts of Montmartre and Marseille, Nicholas Hewitt shows how places on margins and frontiers channel flows of different sorts running across city, nation and world. In doing so, they open up suggestive perspectives on the nature of French territory, how it is conceived, and how it can be imagined. In particular, they foreground the productive tension of the marginal place as edge and opening, and interrogate the bounded and regulated space implied by the geometrical trope of the French ‘hexagon’. What emerges instead is a curiously liquid sense of French space-in-time as shifting, shimmering and mercurial, caught up in and contributing to the ebb and flow of global circulation. This article explores how movement, flow and liquidity have featured in recent explorations of French territory and topography, drawing on work by Jean Rolin, Agnès Varda and the photography project France(s) territoire liquide, whose title spells out its assumption about the nature of contemporary French space. At the same time, the article situates those accounts in relation to conceptions of French territory which informed the work of post-war spatial planners, whose substantial material and infrastructural legacies reflected their own sense of territory as flux, flow and liquid force.

Race-based readings of safety in public space in Milan, the challenge for urban design

Urban designers have long sought to plan more secure public spaces by encouraging a sense of territory through the surveillant and the surveyed. Nevertheless, the racial dimension of this territorialisation is insufficiently recognised. Our research tool, which we have trialled in Milan, identifies the influence of design in creating a sense of security in public space and, independently, the influence of race. It provides designers with a tool that could facilitate a more radically just practice that takes ownership of the role of race in perceptions of secure public space and challenges existing conscious and unconscious bias and which in so doing makes design practice more resilient to the rise of populist administrations increasingly engaging in bordering practices that conjoin migration, race and security at a national scale, but which are often enacted at the city scale.

Diary of a French Missionary: Penang During the Japanese Occupation by Marcel Rouhan

Reviewed by: Diary of a French Missionary: Penang During the Japanese Occupation by Marcel Rouhan Shanthini Pillai Diary of a French Missionary: Penang During the Japanese Occupation. By Marcel Rouhan, Translated and Introduced by Serge Jardin. Penang: Areca Books, 2021, 224 pp. ISBN 9789675719431 The College General in Penang has stood on Malaysian soil from the onset of the 19th Century, with even earlier links to Thailand reaching far back into the 17th Century. For the Malaysian Catholic community, the institution holds a special place of reverence because of its role as a major seminary for prospective young Catholic priests in the making, symbolising hope for the sustainability of the Catholic church, with certain quarters of academia probably more well versed with the intricacies of its historical foundations. Most references to the College General exist primarily in the French language. As such the publication of this diary written by Mgr Rouhan, one of the Directors of the institution before its transference to solely Malaysian clergy, and duly translated into English by Serge Jardin, a Malaysian domiciled French, is a significant contribution for awareness and understanding among the circles of Anglophone academia. The publication is organised into three sections. We are first provided with the translator's introduction to the diary, followed by excerpts from the translated diary itself and finally, a list of appendices that includes a timeline of key milestones pertaining to the rise and fall of Japanese Occupation in Malaya, informative lists of people and places mentioned in the diary as well as key Catholic missions. The translator must be commended for bringing to attention an especially valuable collection of day-to-day entries of a French missionary who not only held an important administrative position in a transnational Catholic educational institution, but who also possessed sufficient clout in the community to enable him to engage effectively with both the colonial government as well as their Japanese usurpers. The substance of this influence is revealed in the very first entry of the diary where we are told of a covert agreement to allow the British government temporary use of land belonging to the College General to prepare for the defence of Penang against the encroaching Japanese army. The extensive possessions of this French-administered religious institution in Penang are immediately gleaned from references not only to land owned but the acres that it spread over, which we learn later extended to numerous properties, coconut plantations as well as other agricultural holdings. We learn of multi-national tenants of the many bungalows that they owned including British, French, Danes and even Japanese. This is further underscored by the possessive pronouns used in abundance throughout when the diarist refers to the gazetting of the land by the government or the 'sacrifice' of numerous coconut trees and their abundant fruit, as well as other possessions scattered across the island of Penang. Seen collectively, these episodes draw attention to the fact that the College General was perceptibly a full-fledged financial arm of the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris (M.E.P) or Paris Foreign Missions Society, generating income that would have been crucial for the maintenance of not only the college but also mission development work among the vast network of French-based religious societies operating in Penang at that juncture. [End Page 125] The diarist reveals the close-knit network that existed between the various French religious communities, mainly the missionaries of the M.E.P. responsible for the formation of Catholic parishes, and the La Salle brothers who, along with the Dames of Saint-Maur (more popularly known in Malaysia as the Infant Jesus Sisters or I.J.S.), set up various schools and orphanages. A strong sense of territoriality also surfaces when faced with secular encroachments into the grounds of the institutions founded by the French sisters especially. These constantly remind us that the discursive imaginary is Catholic at its core, as do the numerous references to prayers for the intercession of Saints, especially Saint Joseph, celebrations of high mass, community mass and various Catholic feast days. Of significant interest also are the references to several local Catholic priests who started out as seminarians during...

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Entrepreneurs' emotional intelligence as a factor explaining entrepreneurial psychological ownership and high-tech start-up growth

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in explaining high-tech entrepreneurs' psychological ownership (PO) and, in turn, how their PO influences venture growth.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on data collected from 106 high-tech Israeli entrepreneurs.FindingsThe findings indicate that using emotions for problem-solving is positively associated with PO sense of efficacy, and that appraisal of emotions of others is negatively associated with PO sense of territoriality. Moreover, PO sense of efficacy is positively associated with growth, whereas sense of territoriality is negatively associated with growth. Finally, sense of territoriality has a curvilinear effect on venture growth.Research limitations/implicationsUnderstanding of the antecedents of entrepreneurs' PO and its influence on firms' growth is scant. The findings contribute to the psychology of entrepreneurship and PO literature by showing the influence of affective-based processes on high-tech start-up growth.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study suggest the entrepreneurs' EI indirectly affects other affective behaviors such as PO, which in turn influence venture growth. It highlights the need of entrepreneur to regulate their emotions and manage the emotional- and cognitive-based processes for the sake of firms' growth.Originality/valueThe findings expand the knowledge pertaining to the psychology of entrepreneurship by showing how EI as an affective dimension is interrelated with affective-based process and entrepreneurial firms' growth.

Transidioma and Territory: Language and Power in the Age of Globalization

The experience of linguistic globalization and the communicative disorder it entails require a serious retooling of most basic units of linguistic analysis. The chaos and indeterminacy of contemporary flows of people, knowledge, texts, and commodities across social and geographical space challenge most sociolinguistic assumptions about social interactions. In particular, we can no longer assume that national territory is linked to a dominant language in ways that bind people together, facilitate interactions, or minimize conflicts. At the same time, communicative practices are still embedded in the territorial apparatuses of the nation-state (from control over the power grid to border enforcement and exclusions). By revisiting the concept of transidioma – i.e., the ensemble of communicative practices of people embedded in multilingual environments and engaged in interactions that blend face-to-face and digitally-mediated communication (Jacquemet 2005a) – as it applies to three different phenomena (the reliance on territorial infrastructure, the heightened sense of territoriality due to globalization, and the search for country origins during asylum hearings), this paper complexifies the interaction between language and space by discussing the importance of the territory in late-modern communication.

The territoriality of teams: Assembling power through the playing of Pokémon Go

This paper explores how the playing of Pokémon Go can cause power to be assembled, and team-based expressions of territoriality to manifest. By playing the game, players become embedded within digital assemblages of power, which they reproduce through their interactions with other players, game features, and public spaces. When digital assets—such as gyms—are indexed to public spaces, players work together in teams to compete for digital ownership, and control, of these assets. In turn, this leads to the forging of a team-based sense of territoriality that is pervasive, and maximized by consolidating the power of the assemblage. Qualitative data are presented to empirically explore how playing Pokémon Go in Singapore can encourage players to forge a team-based sense of territoriality, which in turn results in the (dis)assembling of power. To conclude, I call for closer consideration of the implications of digital assemblages of power for everyday life.

It goes with the territory: Ownership across spatial boundaries.

Previous studies have shown that people are faster to process objects that they own as compared with objects that other people own. Yet object ownership is embedded within a social environment that has distinct and sometimes competing rules for interaction. Here we ask whether ownership of space can act as a filter through which we process what belongs to us. Can a sense of territory modulate the well-established benefits in information processing that owned objects enjoy? In 4 experiments participants categorized their own or another person's objects that appeared in territories assigned either to themselves or to another. We consistently found that faster processing of self-owned than other-owned objects only emerged for objects appearing in the self-territory, with no such advantage in other territories. We propose that knowing whom spaces belong to may serve to define the space in which affordances resulting from ownership lead to facilitated processing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Krajobraz językowy polsko-czeskiego pogranicza jako przestrzeń dyskursu wielojęzyczności — analiza tablic informacyjnych z sektora publicznego

Celem artykułu jest analiza krajobrazu językowego polsko-czeskiego pogranicza jako przestrzeni wielojęzycznych praktyk dyskursywnych. Materiał badawczy stanowią tabliczki informacyjne z sektora publicznego pochodzące z kilku miejscowości: po stronie czeskiej — z Adršpach, Náchodu i Hronova, po stronie polskiej — z Kudowy-Zdroju, Karłowa oraz Dusznik-Zdroju. Pogranicze jest rozumiane w sensie geograficzno-terytorialnym jako strefa zetknięcia się i przenikania różnych narodów i grup etnicznych, kultur i języków na terenach przygranicznych. Zmienne konfiguracje i hierarchia języków występujących na tabliczkach informacyjnych świadczą zarówno o historycznych zaszłościach, jak i aktualnej społecznej dynamice na terenie polsko-czeskiego pogranicza.

Improvement of Accessibility in Eastern Europe due to Implementation of Road Projects in the Via Carpatia Corridor

The main objective of the present study is to assess the possible impact of the completed Via Carpatia route on changes in potential accessibility. The auxiliary objectives are: a) comparison of the effects of creating the entire route in selected regions and cities (in particular peripherally located medium-sized centres), and b) comparison of the effects of implementation of particular sections of the future undertaking. The eastern peripheries of the European Union remain, in a large part, an area with development opportunities reduced by the lagging transport infrastructure, as this is expressed by lower level of spatial accessibility indicators. The analysis here presented confirmed that the construction of the new corridors (here: Via Carpatia route) can improve this situation. However, the possible positive investment effect is selective in the territorial sense. It is also dependent on other investments, including routes having east-west and oblique orientations.

The Governance of Emerging Value Chains and their Impacts on Traditional Communities

This article explores the effect of an evolving global value chain (GVC) on the livelihoods and labor processes of traditional communities, a theme of great conjecture within the literature. We review the impact of the new surge of demand for acai within four traditional communities in Amapa, along with their production processes and work divisions within a specific understanding of their sense of territory. The research was conducted with field work involving participant observation, interviews, questionnaires and photographic records. The results allowed detailing the actors, the organization, the (informal) contractual process and the form of governance within the chain. The paper highlights how rising demand creates new conflicts and uncertainties for chain governance, and that this is directly linked to the nature of contractual informality and communal property rights. This adds to existing concerns with respect to the prospect of communities/labor gains (social upgrading) as a result of GVC insertion.

La Amazonía minada: Minería a gran escala y conflictos en el sur del Ecuador ed. by Karolien van Teijlingen, Esben Leifsen, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, and Luis Sánchez Vásquez

lic policy programs by delving deep into the petro-state’s least-affluent communities. This unique perspective presents an investigative avenue for future scholars to examine how the complexity of political change can occur against the backdrop of a country replete with yet paralyzed by the possibilities of black gold. Trey Murphy Department of Geography University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Karolien van Teijlingen, Esben Leifsen, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, Luis Sánchez Vásquez, eds. La Amazonía minada: Minería a gran escala y conflictos en el sur del Ecuador Quito: Universidad San Francisco de Quito/Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2017. 404 pp. Maps, photographs, references. $22.00 (ISBN: 978–9–942–09472–8). Current global mining news and reports paint a clear picture of Ecuador as a mining country and “the world’s hottest new exploration destination” (Miningnews. net, 2018). This idea of Ecuador as a “mining country” is relatively recent. While geologic exploration of mineral deposits goes back to the late 1800s, sustained interest in international mining agreements did not take off until the mid-to-late 1990s, and high-value mineral mining activities accounted for less than 1% of its real gross domestic product (GDP) until 2004 (Wacaster, 2016). In contrast , since the 1970s, the sale of oil derivatives has accounted for about one third of Ecuador’s total value of exports, thoroughly “petrolizing” (Karl, 1997) the country’s politicsandeconomicsfordecades .However,the volatile super cycle of primary commodities prices throughout the 2000s, together with Ecuador’s mature oilfields, have made oil dependencerisky .“Ecuador,miningcountry”is part of a “post-oil,” governmental strategy to diversify Ecuador’s export revenue sources. A new Mining Law was approved in 2009 to incentivize foreign capital investment, and the old Natural Resources Ministry was broken down and reconstituted into a series of new resource governance entities, including a Ministry of Mining. To further solidify its miningreputation,in2017,Ecuadorbecamea sponsorofthe85thworldconventiononnew projects and explorations, PDAC, one of the most important mining events in the world. La Amazonía Minada is an empirically -drivensocialscienceanthologythattraces how the turn to large-scale mining in Ecuador has been experienced in the Amazonian provinces of Azuay and Zamora Chinchipe, known to host world-class copper and gold deposits. Its Ecuadorian, North American, and European-based contributors examine local responses to the Mirador project, Ecuador ’s first large-scale mining project, visa -vis political alternatives to Latin America’s “doublecrisisofneoliberalismandmodernity” (Escobar, 2010, p. 2). In Ecuador, these political alternatives included a new constitution in 2008 --remarkable for its recognition of human rights and the rights of nature and redefining the country as plurinational and intercultural-- and the state-led project of 24 Journal of Latin American Geography citizen wellbeing referred to as Buen Vivir, consideredarupturefromdominant conceptions of development. La Amazonía Minada pays attention to questions of structural inequality, plurality, and counter-hegemonic mobilization. The book is divided into four parts. Part I tracks how historical imaginaries of the Amazon as a national resource inform the current mining moment. As the authors point out, Ecuador might be a newcomer to large-scale mining ,butnottoextractiveindustries.Fromthe exportofbananasandcacaotooil,Ecuador’s nation-building is tied to the political economy of extraction—and mining is bent on reproducing some of the same pitfalls associatedwiththismodel .Part IItracks how largescale mining unfolds within a “paisaje imbricado ” (p. 117)— a plural, contentious space of already existing differences and inequalities , and where diverse territorialities collide. Fernandez-Salvador (Chapter 5), focuses on the case of the Shuar, and argues that while a sense of ancestral territoriality vis-à-vis the nation-state informs indigenous opposition to mining, political heterogeneity within the collective can deepen divisions and “individualize ” (p. 144) political positions and actions . Continuing the analysis of local experiences , Yépez and van Teijlingen (Chapter 6) describe how the struggles of women against the expansion of large-scale mining are also struggles over social reproduction, and how the insertion of mining in local economies and ecologies means that women live “el proceso de la mineria” differently (p. 203). Part III focuses on the articulation of knowledge production and the devaluation oflocallife,arguingthatbehindthepromises of progressive politics, state-managed “strategic projects” (Leifsen and Beham Hogan, Chapter 6) and “corporate science...

La Amazonía minada: Minería a gran escala y conflictos en el sur del Ecuador ed. by Karolien van Teijlingen et al.

Reviewed by: La Amazonía minada: Minería a gran escala y conflictos en el sur del Ecuador ed. by Karolien van Teijlingen et al. Gabriela Valdivia Karolien van Teijlingen, Esben Leifsen, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, Luis Sánchez Vásquez, eds. La Amazonía minada: Minería a gran escala y conflictos en el sur del Ecuador Quito: Universidad San Francisco de Quito/Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2017. 404 pp. Maps, photographs, references. $22.00 (ISBN: 978–9–942–09472–8). Current global mining news and reports paint a clear picture of Ecuador as a mining country and “the world’s hottest new exploration destination” (Miningnews.net, 2018). This idea of Ecuador as a “mining country” is relatively recent. While geologic exploration of mineral deposits goes back to the late 1800s, sustained interest in international mining agreements did not take off until the mid-to-late 1990s, and high-value mineral mining activities accounted for less than 1% of its real gross domestic product (GDP) until 2004 (Wacaster, 2016). In contrast, since the 1970s, the sale of oil derivatives has accounted for about one third of Ecuador’s total value of exports, thoroughly “petrolizing” (Karl, 1997) the country’s politics and economics for decades. However, the volatile super cycle of primary commodities prices throughout the 2000s, together with Ecuador’s mature oilfields, have made oil dependence risky. “Ecuador, mining country” is part of a “post-oil,” governmental strategy to diversify Ecuador’s export revenue sources. A new Mining Law was approved in 2009 to incentivize foreign capital investment, and the old Natural Resources Ministry was broken down and reconstituted into a series of new resource governance entities, including a Ministry of Mining. To further solidify its mining reputation, in 2017, Ecuador became a sponsor of the 85th world convention on new projects and explorations, PDAC, one of the most important mining events in the world. La Amazonía Minada is an empirically-driven social science anthology that traces how the turn to large-scale mining in Ecuador has been experienced in the Amazonian provinces of Azuay and Zamora Chinchipe, known to host world-class copper and gold deposits. Its Ecuadorian, North American, and European-based contributors examine local responses to the Mirador project, Ecuador’s first large-scale mining project, vis-a-vis political alternatives to Latin America’s “double crisis of neoliberalism and modernity” (Escobar, 2010, p. 2). In Ecuador, these political alternatives included a new constitution in 2008--remarkable for its recognition of human rights and the rights of nature and redefining the country as plurinational and intercultural--and the state-led project of [End Page 291] citizen wellbeing referred to as Buen Vivir, considered a rupture from dominant conceptions of development. La Amazonía Minada pays attention to questions of structural inequality, plurality, and counter-hegemonic mobilization. The book is divided into four parts. Part I tracks how historical imaginaries of the Amazon as a national resource inform the current mining moment. As the authors point out, Ecuador might be a newcomer to large-scale mining, but not to extractive industries. From the export of bananas and cacao to oil, Ecuador’s nation-building is tied to the political economy of extraction—and mining is bent on reproducing some of the same pitfalls associated with this model. Part II tracks how large-scale mining unfolds within a “paisaje imbricado” (p. 117)— a plural, contentious space of already existing differences and inequalities, and where diverse territorialities collide. Fernandez-Salvador (Chapter 5), focuses on the case of the Shuar, and argues that while a sense of ancestral territoriality vis-à-vis the nation-state informs indigenous opposition to mining, political heterogeneity within the collective can deepen divisions and “individualize” (p. 144) political positions and actions. Continuing the analysis of local experiences, Yépez and van Teijlingen (Chapter 6) describe how the struggles of women against the expansion of large-scale mining are also struggles over social reproduction, and how the insertion of mining in local economies and ecologies means that women live “el proceso de la mineria” differently (p. 203). Part III focuses on the articulation of knowledge production and the devaluation of local life, arguing that behind the...

Lifeways and territorial innovation: values and practices for promoting collective appropriation of territory

Abstract In recent decades, most multilateral organizations and other agents of change have used the theoretical approach of sustainable livelihoods to guide their work. This approach has been criticized in recent years for promoting a short-term materialist focus in development projects, thus limiting its practical usefulness and feasibility. Due to the necessity for renewed proposals, a group of community cargos and researchers have developed a long-term comparative retrospective study that goes beyond the conventional approach. It provides a framework with a broader theoretical scope and applied utility grounded on local self-management: lifeways and territorial innovation. Our constructivist approach, based on Bourdieu´s Social Reproduction theory, is aimed at promoting and triggering a sense of territoriality within the communities and further onto the more extensive territory. Since the work was developed along with people from rural communities, we utilized the concept of Social Learning as to enrich the former theoretical principle.

Role of Corridor in Territorial Meaning Formation in “Owned Low-cost Apartments” (‘Rusunami’) Bidara Cina, Jakarta, Indonesia

Urbanization and urban land shortage are crucial issues that require different solutions in every country. Development of “vertical housing” (“owned and rental low-cost apartments”) is one of the alternatives to overcome the huge demand of urban housing, especially for low-income group. The design of “low-cost apartments” (‘rusuna’) in Jakarta with a floor area of apartment units (‘sarusun’ units) 18-24 m 2 (private territory) inhabited by several family members, who can be seen putting their belongings on the corridor, “residual space”, and public space (public territory). These conditions finally establish patterns of behavior to adapt to the circumstances and environment that can lead to territorial issues, social conflict and “occupancy” of public space for private purposes. This research will study the sense of territoriality for residents and find the role of corridor in territorial meaning formation in ‘rusuna’ (‘rusunami’ and ‘rusunawa’), with a case study of the building block “A”, “owned low-cost apartments” (‘rusunami’) Bidara Cina in Jakarta, Indonesia. The research was conducted using qualitative methods through in-depth interviews to understand the territorial meaning, field observation, activities mapping the corridor “occupancy” for private purposes, as well as reviewing the related theories from literature and journal reviews about characteristics of the territoriality in architecture. The results found that the role of corridor as manifestation of the physical needs: need of space, culture & habit, economic necessity, agreement; and physiological needs: tolerance, security & safety, perception, togetherness, social interaction; has a great influence on the formation of territorial meaning in block “A” building ‘rusunami’ Bidara Cina, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Patrones de manejo y negociación por el agua en parajes tsotsiles de la ladera sur del volcán Tsonte’vits, Chiapas, México

Se identifican los elementos que aparecen en los patrones de manejo y negociación del agua por población tsotsil de algunos parajes de varios municipios situados en la parte sur del volcán Tsonte’vits, en Los Altos de Chiapas, México. Mediante trabajo de campo directo, recorridos por varios manantiales, observación participante y entrevistas se analizan los sistemas de uso, aprovechamiento y negociación entre parajes para otorgar agua para uso doméstico. Dichos patrones de manejo del agua obedecen a reglas consuetudinarias, a negociaciones interparaje, y a un sentido de identidad y de territorialidad tsotsil entre los municipios de la región estudiada.

Patrones de manejo y negociación por el agua en parajes tsotsiles de la ladera sur del volcán Tsonte'vits, Chiapas, México

This article identifies and describes the elements of water management and negotiation used by the Tsotsil population of some parajes located in the southern part of Tsonte’vits volcano in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Based on direct field work and field trips to several springs, participant observation, and interviews, this article analyzes the systems that are in use, and the negotiations that occur among parajes. Such patterns of water management obey rules established by custom, by inter-paraje negotiations, and by the participants’ sense of identity and Tsotsil territoriality among the various municipalities included in the studied region.