Revista Alteridades
Revista Alteridades
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AntropologÃa y relocalizacioneshot!
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Barabás, Alicia Mabel / Miguel Alberto Bartolomé.
AntropologÃa y relocalizaciones. Anthropology and Relocations.
Barabas and Bartolomé propose that as displacements and relocations of human groups have stopped being considered as cross-roads phenomena, they have become the subject of anthropological research, discussion and practice. To sustain this hypothesis they offer the revision of some examples of reservoirs and relocations in Latin America and, from an anthropological point of view, they analyse the involuntary displacement and relocation of towns, particularly in certain objective and subjective aspects of the social actors involved and the social movements that come as a result of the relocations. Finally, they underline the difficulty of the insertion of anthropologists to the task forces in charge of the relocation, an area traditionally reserved to engineers or technicians.
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BahÃas de Huatulco. Reseña de la reubicaciónhot!
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Orozco Cervantes, Patricia / BahÃas de Huatulco.
Reseña de la reubicación. Huatulco Bays. Outline of the Relocation.
As the title of this article indicates, Orozco outlines the relocation process of the populations involved in the construction of the Huatulco Bays Tourist project (Mexico). The author follows the negotiation and moving stages of the populations of the zone step by step and indicates that the process was extremely difficult, for the pressure of groups, the opportunism of its leaders, the populism of the Government of the State of Oaxaca, the lack of definition of a policy to meet the social demands among others, were all part of it.
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Construcción de presas hidroeléctricas y estructuras axiales estatales.hot!
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López Cortés, Eliseo / Construcción de presas hidroeléctricas y estructuras axiales estatales.
Construction of hydroelectric reservoirs and state axial structures.
This article reviews, from the anthropological framework of anthropologist Richard N. Adams for the analysis of power structures, the causes which lead national governments to the construction of gigantic hydroelectric reservoirs. His empirical reference is the construction of the Miguel Alemán reservoir in the Low Mazateca, which reaches the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz (Mexico). At the same time, it undertakes a dialogue with Karl Wittfogel’s Oriental Despotism theory.
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El Proyecto Hidroeléctrico de la BahÃa de James: la ruina de un territorio.hot!
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Sallenave, John / El Proyecto Hidroeléctrico de la BahÃa de James: la ruina de un territorio.
The Hydroelectric project in James Bay: the ruin of a territory.
The Hydroelectric Project in James Bay, north of Quebec, Canada, illustrates the consequences of an economic growth model selected by the governments of industrialized nations as well as transnational corporations, which have acquired an insatiable appetite for new supplies of resources and have accelerated the rates of extraction of natural resources to incredible levels, without considering the high social and ecological costs to mast indigenous culture whose subsistence directly or indirectly depends on the preservation of traditional life styles and their eco-systems. The study here reviewed exemplifies how immediate interests and the political convenience of some governments become more important than ecological and socio-cultural interests of an indigenous society.
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