Guardianes del mar y del viento. El conflicto socioambiental del pueblo ikoot en el istmo de Tehuantepec

Abstract

The resistance of some indigenous communities to the global capital extractivist logic has resulted in the development of strategies beyond the economic sphere, beyond market and capital gain; in that sense, it bursts into the territories for the conquest of goods, bodies and rights through biocultural dispossession. In this logic of extra-economic domain, the worldview of the indigenous people who have coevolved with its habitat and the protection of their territories has managed to face the prevailing capitalist system. Our objective is to present an analysis of the community resistance process carried out by the Huave or ikoots community, on the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Oaxaca, Mexico. Through various community strategies, the ikoots have managed to cope with the advancement of mega projects that seek to exploit the potential of the region, due to its geographical potentialities.