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The mining sector in Mexico has undergone a significant resurgence, triggering increased numbers of associated conflicts. This trend has characterized conflict in the Sierra Norte region of the state of Puebla since 2011. Between 2011 and 2015, three mining exploration projects and mining energy project by private corporations have been initiated in the region, as well as a government population-relocation project. The situation in which mining becomes an activity with significant potential to reconfigure territories has been described as the accumulation of mining capital by dispossession. In the case of the Sierra Norte de Puebla, we observe that the conflicts are emerging as a response to the systemic, subjective, and symbolic violence employed in the process of territorial dispossession. This case also allows us to observe: (1) local cases of resistance characterized by heterogeneous actors, practices and arguments; and (2) their rescaling toward a regional discursive coalition, transcending heterogeneity and creating a form to face up to what has been known as “death projects.” resumen: El resurgimiento del sector minero en Mexico ha ocurrido acompanado de un creciente numero de conflictos. La region Sierra Norte del estado de Puebla ha sido parte de esta tendencia desde el ano 2011. Tan solo en el periodo 2011–2015, han surgido tres proyectos de exploracion minera y un proyecto minero-energetico, planteados por empresas de capital privado. Simultaneamente, y complejizando el problema, se sumo un proyecto gubernamental que implicaba la reubicacion poblacional. Este nuevo panorama, donde la mineria llega a tener alto potencial para reconfigurar territorios, se ha documentado ya sobre el argumento de acumulacion de capital minero por desposesion. En este caso particular, nosotros observamos los conflictos como respuesta a la violencia subjetiva, sistemica y simbolica que entrana el proceso de desposesion territorial. Sin embargo, la Sierra Norte tambien nos permite observar: (1) casos de resistencia local caracterizados por la heterogeneidad de actores, practicas y argumentos; asi como (2) un particular reescalamiento hacia una coalicion discursiva regional, trascendiendo la heterogeneidad y creando una forma de hacer frente a lo que se ha denominado como “proyectos de muerte.” |
