"It is loved and it is defended": Critical Solidarity Across Race and Space

Abstract: Since 2010, the Wixarika (Huichol) indigenous people of western Mexico have struggled against transnational mining activity in their sacred pilgrimage site of Wirikuta in the semi-desertic plateaus of San Luis Potosi. This struggle has been accompanied by a multitude of non-indigenous and largely urban actors who have joined the Wixarika, bringing with them their own cultural, political and geographic registers for understanding and mobilizing against mining in the region. Taking Wirikuta as a contemporary demonstration of interracial and cross-geographic alliance building, Diana Negrín da Silva analyzes how social movements that express solidarity and affective ties with the territories and cultures of indigenous peoples struggle to unsettle entrenched racial and spatial relations.

Read full article written by Diana Negrín for Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography.