Cosmohistorias incómodas: de la idolatría a la defensa del territorio

Abstract

This article describes the ways in which the indigenous idolatries of the colonial past, and now stabilized within a series of ritual practices of the Otomi peoples who inhabit the west of the Valley of Mexico, have become a powerful identity and legal strategy against real estate extractivism and megaprojects that threaten territorial balance. The vision is privileged not of a history, but of diverse cosmohistories that offer diverse visions of time, memory, and resistance in this region of central Mexico.