Attachment to the place and political prefiguration in the defense of the Nixticuil forest in Guadalajara

Abstract

The impact that emotions have on experiences of resistance for territorial defense, is a topic that has been little addressed in the analyses that are been carried out in the social sciences, regarding to social movements in Mexico. This article contains some findings from a broader research paper that analyses the role that emotions have in organizational processes for the defense of forests in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area. What is presented here is part of the analysis (still ongoing) of the way in which emotions associated with attachment to the place and prefigurative political practices are articulated, with the experience of the community organization around the defense of the El Nixticuil forest. The above allows to complex the understanding of a territorial defense process that has being maintained for fifteen years in the north of Zapopan, Jalisco.