Peasant struggles against mining in rural regions in Mexico

• In Event: Environmental Movements: New Challenges and Tactics

Abstract

In this paper we analyze peasant’s resistance actions against their common resources (water, land, mountains) depriving by mining companies. This dispossession is consequence of new capital accumulation ways that generate depredation and destruction. There is an increasing and diverse response against this in rural Mexico. The paper shows how these contesting movements are happening in three different Mexican regions: Puebla Sierra Norte, Oaxaca Sierra Juárez and Chiapas Sierra Madre. Through collective actions, people in these regions have tried to revert dispossession and improve economic profits distribution, as a way to defend their common resources

Author

• Carlos Andres Rodríguez Wallenius, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana/Xochimilco