Rossana Reguillo
Semantizarás el territorio: los vecinos de Analco y las explosiones de 1992 en Guadalajara
You shall semantisize (give meaning to) the territory. The neighbours of Analco and the explosions of April 22nd. 1992 in Guadalajara.

From a sociosemiotical and anthropological standpoint, this work analyses the socio organizative and identity processes of the neighbours of Sector Reforma in the city of Guadalajara as a result of the 1992 motor fuel explosions in the drainpipe system. The interaction among the neighbours revealed the paradoxical stress between territorial basis identities and political struggle that requires support and devices which will transcend territorial dimension. This work agrees with the idea that local relationships are not enough for political participation. The processes experienced by the explosions of April 22, show that al though the territorial property has constituted a central mediation for the representation and for the action, it tends to become an obstacle when a discursive matrix is not simultaneously constructed and which is able to examine the subject in a cognitive and critical way and not only affectionately.