The commonality as a basis for building social resilience to the crisis of civilization

Abstract

The trail of the crisis of Western civilizatory project has exacerbated social inequalities and altered homeostatic processes of the biosphere. The subtle or violent dispossession of territories with high potential of natural resources is another trickery of the neoliberal model to palliate its structural crisis; as happens against indigenous peoples. These actions are highly disruptive of the dynamics of social organization, and the worsening of environmental injustice. However, various social groups are reshaping their strategies not only to resist, but to build alternatives. The community ethos (comunalidad), -as an element of the peoples own cultural ancestry of Mesoamerican culture- is a critical intercultural strategy for these tasks. The notion of social resilience is used as an analytical tool in such exploration. It is noted that the degree of resilience of communities is related to the construction of autonomous processes.