Jesús Tepactepec:

Rural spaces, territoriality and counterspace

Abstract

The study focuses on the community of Jesús Tepactepec (Nativitas, Tlaxcala, Mexico). The main objective is the investigation of three rural spaces in its territory, first an ethnographic reflection is made, on the gestation of these, their structural change and sociocultural dynamics, from being a traditional rurality to a complex one, crossed by multiple edges, second the Pluriactivity in the countryside generated rural diversity, different ways of living rurality, which fragmented the territory into three spaces and leads us to the understanding of territoriality. In a third moment we will analyze how they are articulated, energized and function as a system against the unilinear evolutionary visions of urbanity, where the visions of progress are unequivocally urban, in this way the counterspace is created as a response, and they come to contradict again, placing Jesús Tepactepec as a strategy to face globalizing developmentalism.