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Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous peoples, access to affordable housing remains crucial to alleviating poverty. But as palapas, traditional thatch and wood houses, are replaced by tract houses in the Yucatán Peninsula, Indigenous peoples' relationship to land, urbanism, and finance is similarly transformed, revealing a legacy of debt and dispossession. Indigenous Dispossession examines how Maya families grapple with the ramifications of neoliberal housing policies. M. Bianet Castellanos relates Maya migrants' ...
Through practical theological and anthro/gynopological methods, Insurrectionist Wisdoms: Toward a North American Indigenized Pastoral Theology offers an analysis of the situation of working-class Maya mexicanas living in Yucatán, México, working on the assembly line of a multinational corporation. Relying on in-depth, firsthand interviews, Marlene M. Ferreras brings to light the exploitation of women of color by large, multimillion-dollar corporations and delves into the ways these women can, and do, fight back. Drawing on a decolonial approach to pastoral theology and feminism, Ferreras proposes Lxs Hijxs de Maíz as an image for pastoral care and counseling.
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As a free trade zone and Latin America's most popular destination, Cancún, Mexico, is more than just a tourist town. It is not only actively involved in the production of transnational capital but also forms an integral part of the state's modernization plan for rural, indigenous communities. Indeed, Maya migrants make up over a third of the city's population. A Return to Servitude is an ethnography of Maya migration within Mexico that analyzes the foundational role indigenous peoples play in the development of the modern nation-state. Focusing on tourism in the Yucatán Peninsula, M. Bianet Ca.
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L'État du Yucatan au Mexique est connu entre autres pour ses nombreux sites archéologiques, silencieux témoins de la gloire passée des Mayas. Il y a pourtant un envers du décor qui constitue le quotidien des populations indigènes contemporaines. Le Yucatan est en effet l'un des États les plus pauvres du Mexique. Pour remédier à cette situation alarmante, les gouvernements ont misé sur l'installation de maquiladoras de confection, notamment à la campagne, en même temps qu'ils ont formulé des programmes de soutien à une agriculture pratiquement en faillite. Tout en faisant le lien avec des processus propres à la mondialisation, l'auteure montre comment ces mesures se sont appuyées, sur le plan local, sur une combinaison particulière de facteurs relevant de l'identité ethnique, du genre et des rapports entre les générations.
L'enjeu de cette étude est de délaisser l'analyse du discours des politiques de développement et de population et de privilégier les résultats de ces politiques, ainsi que l'influence de ces actions sur les comportements reproductifs. « Copyright Electre »
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