Vol. 4 No. 4 (2022): Cultura y crisis ambiental en América Latina
Articles

The transfiguration of the mountain. Imaginaries about dispossession and absence in northeastern Mexico

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  • Ariadna Ramonetti Liceaga
Ariadna Ramonetti Liceaga
Universidad de Monterrey, Nuevo León
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-2064

Published 2023-02-19

Keywords

  • Extractivism,
  • Landscape,
  • Extractive Economies,
  • Mexican Northeast,
  • Monterrey

How to Cite

Ramonetti Liceaga, A. (2023). The transfiguration of the mountain. Imaginaries about dispossession and absence in northeastern Mexico. Quaderni Culturali IILA, 4(4), 77–86. https://doi.org/10.36253/qciila-2064

Copyright (c) 2023 Ariadna Ramonetti Liceaga

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Abstract

This article is proposed as an outline of political ecology on the extractive phenomenon in the city of Monterrey (Mexico) to state the network of power relations that have forged this concrete city. We will analyze the importance of the mountains between which this city has grown for the ecology and environment of the region and how these have been subjected to an extractive cycle to put at risk a good part of the natural heritage and archaeological site in some areas of the Sierra Madre Oriental. In the last part of the article, an analysis of the photographic work of the visual artist Oswaldo Ruíz as a way to understand the scale and dimensions of the problem that the extraction of non-metallic minerals represents in this region of Mexico from a sociohistorical aspect as well.

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