Keywords
frontiers of anthropology
ethics
environmental conflicts
hydraulic management
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Abstract
Our goal is to discuss the epistemological boundaries of Anthropology in the ethical context of ethnographers studying an environmental conflict. We review the positions in an ethno-graphy of Temacapulín, Jalisco (Mexico) community in resistance by the construction of the El Zapotillo dam, through a longitudinal ethnographic work (follow-up from 2005 to 2018) that discovers details of a “big dam” culminated in neoliberalism, a tip to state’s hydraulic policy and a support for a management model that transfers public investment for private utilitarianism. A community in environmental conflict is the setting for different types of ethnography depending on the academic, institutional, personal implications, because it raises critical positions to the economic direction of public policy. Given the characteristics of environmental conflicts, this reflection discusses the boundaries of Anthropology according to the ethical position of ethnographers who study resistance to hydraulic projects that some denounce, others interrogate, but also a few argue legally.
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