Governance, Community Resilience, and Indigenous Tourism in Nahá, Mexico
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Título: | Governance, Community Resilience, and Indigenous Tourism in Nahá, Mexico |
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Autor/es: | Espeso-Molinero, Pilar | Pastor-Alfonso, María José |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Planificación y Gestión Sostenible del Turismo |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Humanidades Contemporáneas | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Investigaciones Turísticas |
Palabras clave: | Community-based tourism | Indigenous tourism | Socio-ecological resilience | Governance | Natural protected areas | Lacandon | Mexico |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Antropología Social |
Fecha de publicación: | 24-jul-2020 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | Espeso-Molinero P, Pastor-Alfonso MJ. Governance, Community Resilience, and Indigenous Tourism in Nahá, Mexico. Sustainability. 2020; 12(15):5973. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12155973 |
Resumen: | Employing resilience as the theoretical and methodological framework and focusing on governance, this long-term anthropological study analyzes the socio-ecological system of a small indigenous community, with community-based tourism development. After 10 years of ethnographic and participatory work with the Lacandon Maya of Nahá, Mexico, our anthropological research explores the complexities of community governance and its role in protecting the socio-ecological system. The processes of land restitution initiated by the Mexican government and the arrival of migrants from different ethnic groups in the surrounding areas have resulted in significant socio-ecological adjustments being made at the community level. A self-regulated governance system is evaluated to understand the drivers and variables that generated vulnerabilities in the system, as well as the factors that fostered resilience in the establishment of the Nahá’s Natural Protected Area of Flora and Fauna. Our results show that although the current Lacandon political organization is fairly recent, pressures from neighboring communities have fostered resilience responses. To protect their space from such pressures, the Lacandon, convinced of their ethnic legitimacy as guardians of the Lacandon Jungle, have internalized the official political-environmentalist discourse. This role has had critical implications for the birth and development of the Indigenous tourism system. |
Patrocinador/es: | This work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain) under grants CSO2017-84893-P (2018-2020). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/108551 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
DOI: | 10.3390/su12155973 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su12155973 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - PGST - Artículos de Revistas |
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