Community organization and indigenous citizenship in the municipality of Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo

• Autor: Islas Ruiz, Alan Suah
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Huanta
• Repositorio: Puriq
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.www.revistas.unah.edu.pe:article/219
• Enlace del recurso: https://www.revistas.unah.edu.pe/index.php/puriq/article/view/219
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Organización comunitaria; ciudadanía indígena; usos y costumbres; Ixmiquilpan Hidalgo; Community organization; indigenous citizenship; customs and practices; Organização comunitária; cidadania indígena; costumes e tradições

One of the main challenges on the agenda of indigenous affairs has been related to the link between the political-legal system and the mechanisms recognized by the system of uses and customs to integrate variety in political participation, and the community organization, mainly of rural contexts. Said relationship reflects the State's treatment of difference, multiculturalism, and citizenships proposed by an indigenous political organization of customary laws, as in the case of the municipality of Ixmiquilpan, in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. This article addresses some questions to understand how this link has been between indigenous society and the political system, through the analysis of its community organization: its social and political structure, and the mechanisms of citizen participation derived from it. It starts from historical institutionalism as a theoretical tool to explain how the political structures of customs and uses have been forming a legal-political scaffolding that is not necessarily compatible with the political institutions proposed by the Mexican State.