Peninsula

Ana García Barrios. Chaahk, el dios de la lluvia entre los antiguos mayas. Mérida: UNAM, 2023: 336 pp.

Rafael Cobos Palma — 2024-12-13

Erik Velásquez García. Morada de dioses. Los componentes anímicos del cuerpo humano entre los mayas clásicos. México: FCE-UNAM, 2023: 633 pp.

Liliana González Austria Noguez — 2024-12-13

Laura Machuca Gallegos. Los subdelegados en Yucatán. Ámbitos de acción política y aspiraciones sociales en la Intendencia, 1786-1821. México: CIESAS, 2023: 320 pp.

Iván Franco Cáceres — 2024-12-13

Cristóbal Alfonso Sánchez Ulloa. Una confusa algarabía. Espectáculos públicos en la Ciudad de México después de la Independencia, 1821-1846. Mérida: UNAM, 2023: 309 pp.

María Fernanda Valencia Suárez — 2024-12-13

Pedro Moctezuma Barragán. El agua en nuestras manos. México: FCE-CONAHCYT, 2023: 537 pp.

Abelardo Rodríguez López — 2024-12-13

Juana Juárez Romero, Fátima Flores Palacios y Silvia Gutiérrez Vidrio, coordinación. Pensamiento y representaciones sociales en América Latina ante la COVID-19. México: UAM-Gedisa, 2023: 278 pp.

David de Ángel García — 2024-12-13

El agua en las humanidades y ciencias sociales de Yucatán. Una introducción al dosier

Rodrigo Llanes Salazar — 2024-12-13

The Human Right to drinking Water in Yucatán: Anthropological Considerations

Esteban Krotz — 2024-12-13

This essay begins with an outline of the growing worldwide problem of access to drinkable water. After some general considerations about the contribution of sociocultural anthropology to the reflection of human rights, the emergence of the idea of the human right to potable water and sanitation is described. The following sections identify the situation of this human right in Mexico and in Yucatan Peninsula. And, it ends with several proposals that place the technical issue within the framework of an option for a different civilizing model.

Perceptions and Experiences of Nature Appropriation among Maya Families of the Cuxtal Ecological Reserve, Mérida, Yucatán

Judzil Palma Ortega — 2024-12-13

This article addresses the appropriation of nature in the Cuxtal ecological reserve. The objective is to analyze the perceptions of the inhabitants, and the power relations in the territory. An ethnography was carried out from 2018 to 2020, from participant observation and life stories interviews at the town of San Ignacio Tesip. In conclusion, the experiential memory allowed us to understand that the Mexican State has excluded and marginalized the Mayan indigenous people, especially women, in the access and use of resources and in the decision making of their communities.

Amparos, Law Proposals and Reports: The Human Right to Water and Aquifer Contamination in Yucatán

Rodrigo Llanes Salazar — 2024-12-13

This article analyzes how various organizations have adapted international norms to a local context according to the human right to access water and the issue of contamination of the vulnerable underground aquifer due to megaprojects in Yucatan in Yucatan. Specifically, it examines how this process of “vernacularization” occurs in the judicial, legislative and human rights organizations’ spheres, through the use of devices such as the amparo trial, a legislative initiative, and human rights reports.

The Conceptualization of Water Conflicts in Yucatán: A Framing Perspective on Social Movements

María Gabriela Durán Valis — 2024-12-13

This article analyzes the factors that have led to the emergence of mobilizations against pig farms in Yucatán. From the theoretical perspective of social movements, it is argued that beyond the data that reveal the damage caused by this industry, it is necessary for people to share interpretive frameworks that allow them to recognize these effects as problematic. For this reason, the cases of two collectives are tackled, who, in collaboration with a non-governmental organization (NGO), have used legal strategies to demand the closure of the farms. The conclusion is that, in both cases, collective action was favored and transformed by the legal support provided by the NGO Kanan Derechos Humanos: through the language of rights and activities related to litigation, people constructed an interpretive framework that allows these conflicts to be understood in terms of indigenous and environmental rights.

La vulnerabilidad del acuífero kárstico de Yucatán

Yameli Aguilar Duarte — 2024-12-13

Veinte años de existencia de la revista Península

Carolina Depetris — 2024-12-13

La revista Península en un mundo de cambios

María Fernanda Valencia Suárez — 2024-12-13

Península en la historia de las revistas de humanidades y ciencias sociales de Yucatán

Rodrigo Llanes Salazar — 2024-12-13

Los primeros veinte años de la revista Península

Ricardo López Santillán — 2024-12-13

Veinte años de presencia de la UNAM en la región: Península

Rubén Torres Martínez — 2024-12-13

Mis años en Península

Virginia Carrillo Rodríguez — 2024-12-13

Editar con perspectiva de género, mi experiencia en la revista Península

Amada Rubio Herrera — 2024-12-13

Un apunte sobre el andar de Península

Salvador Tovar Mendoza — 2024-12-13

Improvised Consuls of the United States Legation in Campeche (1819-1880)

Pascale Villegas — 2024-12-13

The 19th century and the independence of Latin American nations created a favorable environment for the proliferation of consuls, who were crucial actors in ports and provincial capitals to foment mutual commercial relations. The purpose of this work, in addition to extracting information related to port activities —based on the consular correspondence of the United States legation established in Campeche—, is to analyze the consular staff divided into two groups. On the one hand, the Americans commissioned to undertake the journey and occupy the consular seat, some of whom never arrived, while others resigned shortly after. And, on the other hand, the appointment of a resident consul in Campeche, without academic training, neither previous diplomatic career, or aspirations to pursue one. Many nations turned to these “improvised consuls” who had the advantage of knowing the language and being able to move in a still insecure regional environment, although their epistolary communications were often lax and evasive.

Certified Insecurity of Indigenous Lands in Mexico: An Approach from the Racial Property Regime Focus

Gabriela Torres Mazuera — 2024-12-13

The 1990s marked the neoliberal shift that impacted agrarian policies in Mexico and Latin America. It involves the replacement of the peasant demand and land redistribution toward bureaucratic and entrepreneurial requirements for legal security of the same tenure. Subsequently, various countries undertook agricultural certification and titling programs, financed by international institutions, which heralded a new model of economic development. At the same time, and in a contradictory manner, multiple Latin American constitutions recognized, under the multicultural aegis, the collective rights for indigenous peoples, as well as new legal figures, designated as indigenous, for territorial protection.

To what extent has neoliberal agrarian certification guaranteed legal certainty for peasant and indigenous people and communities in Mexico? And how effective was the legal recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights under the multicultural turn in defending collective territory? In this text, we aim to answer these questions by resuming the intersecting discourses of property and alterity regimes through which the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic uses and effects of indigenous identity, ejido, and community categories are contrasted.

The Role of Civil Society Organizations in the Aiding Efforts Derived from Hurricane Otis in Guerrero

Fernando Montoya Vargas — 2024-12-13

The present study analyzes the function developed by civil society organizations aiding operations in affected areas in Acapulco, Guerrero, México, due to Hurricane Otis, in October 2023. But first, it is important to define what we understand by civil society organizations, from different theoretical visions. Next, a historical review of the phases of the development of movements and organizations in Guerrero is provided. A local statistical mapping is shown, considering general data on population levels, poverty, illiteracy, and education. Subsequently, a current snapshot of civil society organizations in Guerrero is presented. Finally, the performance of local organizations in humanitarian actions to help the population affected by the hurricane is analyzed. For the development of this section, the analysis of data obtained through a survey of local organizations, existing literature, and the exercise of the right of access to information was essential.