Power, Identity and the Production of Buffer Villages in “the Second Most Remote Region in all of Mexico”
Power, Identity and the Production of Buffer Villages in “the Second Most Remote Region in all of Mexico”
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“墨西哥第二个最偏远地区”缓冲村庄的权力、身份和生产
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2008
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Margath A. Walker
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D. Walker;Margath A. Walker
本文以墨西哥瓦哈卡的一个实证案例为例，了解空间是如何通过材料和隐喻实践来（重新）建构的。我们对奇马拉帕斯（chimalapas）（该州的森林地区）讲佐克语的印第安人如何通过建立缓冲村来重新构建空间，以防止对公共土地的侵占，进行研究的动机是两个广泛的理论问题。第一个是提请注意墨西哥的一个地区，在地理文献中没有广泛提及，那里存在着非常活跃的土著斗争。第二个动机与二进制的持续解耦有关，特别是“强大vs弱小”的结构。我们认为，边缘化的策略是通过空间和权力关系的重新配置来制定的，这种重新配置部分取决于社会群体中处于不同地位的主体。我们关注的是暗示在一个经常被毫无疑问地归类为“无能为力”的人群中，有形和物质的从属关系所涉及的多样性。在研究Zoque少数民族成员所采用的复杂的空间策略时，我们展示了如何在冲突的背景下产生统一和稳定。
: This paper draws on an empirical example in Oaxaca, Mexico to understand how space is (re)constructed through material and metaphorical practice. Our research on the ways in which the Zoque-speaking Indians of Chimalapas—a forest region of the state—have sought to reframe space through the formation of buffer villages to prevent encroachment on communally held land is motivated by two broad theoretical concerns. The first is to draw attention to a region of Mexico not widely addressed in geographic literature where there exist very active indigenous struggles. A second motivation relates to the continued decoupling of binaries, in particular the construct of “powerful vs powerless”. We argue that the strategies of the marginalized are enacted through the reconfiguration of spatiality and power relations predicated in part on the differentially situated subjects within a social group. Our concern is to hint at the multiplicities involved in subordination tangibly and materially within a population that often is categorized unproblematically and scripted as ‘powerless’. In examining the intricacies of the spatial strategies employed by members of the Zoque minority we show how unities and stabilities are produced against a backdrop of conflict.