Abstract

MASTACHE DE LOS SANTOS, Esmeralda Azucena  and  GERRITSEN, Peter R.W.. Preliminary Analysis of the Resettlement Process of the Locality of Chamela in the Southern Coastal region of Jalisco, Mexico. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.159, pp.5-30.  Epub Sep 30, 2020. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v40i159.436.

Tourism can be considered a strategy for capitalist accumulation in rural areas where established communities are evicted from their territories, depriving local people of their livelihoods. This article documents the case of the resettling of Chamela, a locality in the coastal zone of Jalisco in western Mexico that consists of some fifty families of fishermen who were expelled so that a tourist complex called Zafiro could be constructed there. This resort covers approximately 910 hectares. The case of Chamela reflects how forced resettlement due to tourism projects is a strategy that weakens the internal organizational structure of communities, undermines their economic autonomy and generates dependence on service companies that completely reconfigure the territory according to their needs.

Keywords : Chamela; Political Ecology; resettlements; actors; privatization.

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