Envisioning Power in Mexico: Legitimacy, Crisis, and the Practice of Patrimony
Author(s)
Ferry, Elizabeth Emma
Abstract
This article extends traditional academic insights into an analysis of the current political and economic situation in Mexico. The author focuses on the practice of categorizing objects as the inalienable property of a given collective, such as a city, region, institution, or nation. These possessions – often referred to as patrimonio (patrimony) – are understood to have been handed down from prior generations and intended to be handed down in turn to future generations. I look at this mode of characterizing property in the areas of subsoil resources, collectively held land, and “cultural properties.”
