Hydrosocial territories and tourism megaprojects. The experience of Yucatan, Mexico
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Hydrosocial territory. governmentality. tourism megaproject. cultural industry. water.Abstract
This article focuses on the conceptualization of hydrosocial territories in relation to the insertion of a tourism megaproject in Yucatan, Mexico. A qualitative methodological strategy was used for its analysis, applied to a case study covering three villages of the peninsula: Yalcobá, X'tut and Sisbichén, currently affected by the construction of the "Xibalbá" tourism megaproject. The objective is to identify the rationalities that conceive, define and problematize the water territory, from the logics of the state-entrepreneur, and to reveal its insertion to the territory through specific mechanisms. It concludes that the Xibalbá megaproject is a mechanism of power, characterized by logics that conceive water as an economic resource from the cultural industry, which inserts political rationalities through physical, social, symbolic and cultural particularities of the site accompanied by the following mechanisms: Legislation, discourse, public policies and technology.
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