Regional State configuration: The mercantile order and interpretive community on the Mexico-Guatemala border
We offer an ethnographic description of the circulation of vegetables on the border between Mexico and Guatemala. These goods move from one country to the other through ant-style piecemeal trafficking on misdirected paths: they enter constantly as contraband in small quantities, using tolerated bord...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA |
| Repositorio: | Estudios Fronterizos |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.localhost:article/582 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/582 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | border commercial local order interpretative community empirical construction of the State Mexico-Guatemala border Social Sciences Economy Price Competition International cooperation Commerce Commercial geography Government Public administration International relations Comercio fronterizo orden local comunidad interpretativa construcción empírica del Estado frontera México-Guatemala Ciencias sociales Economía Precio Competencia La cooperación internacional Comercio Geografía comercial Gobierno Administración pública Relaciones internacionales |
| Sumario: | We offer an ethnographic description of the circulation of vegetables on the border between Mexico and Guatemala. These goods move from one country to the other through ant-style piecemeal trafficking on misdirected paths: they enter constantly as contraband in small quantities, using tolerated border crossings. The objective is to show how the interactions between the border actors involved construct a local order that is different from that of the State's normative parameters. An order is founded on a series of unwritten rules that govern the practices of crossing, thereby creating an "interpretive community." This paper clarifies why the operating personnel from different levels of the Mexican government charged with overseeing trade are not outside of this community but rather compose an important part of it and how the State is empirically constructed within it, starting from the idea that the State is not an all-encompassing and coherent entity. |
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