Oltre il neoliberalismo multiculturale: la nascita dei B’oq’ol Q’esal Tenam

Abstract

This article analyses the processes of revitalization of "ancestral authorities" in the Ixil Region (Guatemala), which from the protests against a transnational energy project culminated in the creation of the B'oq'ol Q'esal Tenam of Chajul, Nebaj, and Cotzal. Recognized by the Constitutional Court in 2015, the B'oq'ol Q'esal Tenam emerge in a complex and fragmented reality, using the interstitial spaces of neoliberal policies to contest them and give rise to alternative forms of decentralization to those proposed by the national political and institutional system.