Márgenes en lucha por la centralidad. Electricidad y cosmovisiones indígenas en un movimiento de resistencia civil mexicano

The article examines the ethnographic case of the Civil Resistance Organisation Luz y Fuerza del Pueblo, located in Chiapas, in south-eastern Mexico. It is a social movement whose members are mostly indigenous and peasants, and whose struggle is for universal and non-discriminatory access to electricity. But, at the same time, it makes electricity the means of a broader struggle for autonomy and to assert an alternative worldview to that of capitalist modernity. In the first part, the text describes the characteristics of the condition of marginalisation in which Mexican indigenous peoples live and proposes an account of the indigenist policies that the Mexican state has implemented with the purpose of assimilating its indigenous population. In the second part, it reconstructs the progressive emergence of autonomy claims among Mexican grassroots movements, underlining how the indigenist paradigm has "unintentionally" propitiated them. Finally, after tracing the genesis and explaining the functioning of Luz y Fuerza del Pueblo, it analyses the original forms of autonomy this latter produces, highlighting the ontological contribution provided by the Mayan worldviews.