Dramas legislativos sobre la ciudad y sus pueblos en la elaboración de la Constitución Política de la Ciudad de México

Abstract

The conflicts and partisan disputes that arise when legislating the rights of towns, barrios originarios, and indigenous communities residing in Mexico City are analyzed. Through an ethnography of social life in the textual evidence produced when preparing the Political Constitution of the city, it is shown that its paradoxical effects in the political struggles of the pueblos of the capital have their genesis in power relations occurred in the Constituent Assembly, since in the constituent committees the first conflict occurred between the perspectives that wanted to rethink state law, with those that sought to reproduce its hegemonic logic.