Abstracts
Abstract
The Ngiguas, an Indigenous community of San Marcos Tlacoyalco in Puebla, Mexico, are in the process of building their governance through the design and practice of their own development projects on issues pertaining to the protection and exploitation of their natural resources, media autonomy, and traditional foods. Such a building effort is grounded on the concept of comunalidad (communality), which was expressed in non-patriarchal and non-capitalist terms by the late Mixe intellectual Floriberto Díaz Gómez in the 1980s. Since then, it has been used by the Ngigua people in their grassroots constructions of governance and development. Starting from the premise that development constitutes a Ngigua strategy for crafting communality, this article looks at how Ngigua leaders negotiate their governance and decommodification. Based on ethnographic research, this study presents communality as the spiral of intersubjective experiences of Indigenous people where the truth about the other is inhabited by Indigenous people in a non-linear dialogical perspective.
Résumé
Les Ngiguas, une communauté autochtone de San Marcos Tlacoyalco à Puebla, au Mexique, sont en train de construire leur gouvernance à travers la conception et la pratique de leurs propres projets de développement sur des questions relatives à la protection et l’exploitation de leurs ressources naturelles, l’autonomie des médias et la promotion des aliments traditionnels. Un tel effort de construction est fondé sur le concept de comunalidad (communalité), qui a été exprimé en termes non patriarcaux et non capitalistes par feu l’intellectuel mixe Floriberto Díaz Gómez dans les années 1980. Depuis lors, il a été utilisé par le peuple Ngigua dans ses constructions de base de gouvernance et de développement. Partant du principe que le développement constitue une stratégie Ngigua pour façonner la communauté, cet article examine comment les dirigeants Ngigua négocient leur gouvernance et leur démarchandisation. Basée sur une recherche ethnographique, cette étude présente la communauté comme une spirale d’expériences intersubjectives de peuples autochtones où la vérité sur l’autre est habitée par les peuples autochtones dans une perspective dialogique non linéaire.
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