Ciudades rurales y sus reconfiguraciones territoriales en Chiapas y Puebla

Abstract

This paper presents some relevant elements of the politics of territorial reconfiguration in the peasant world promoted by state governments through the model of rural cities. In addition to an analysis of the plans promoted in Chiapas and Puebla, these cases are placed in a wider discussion of territorial disputes between the indigenous-peasant form of appropriating space and constructing territorialities and the dominant form expressed in the territorialization of capital. In addition, we present some responses of the social subjects involved in the implementation of the rural cities, particularly those actions resisting this policy of territorial reconfiguration.