Complejidad y disputa territorial. Reensamblando el conflicto de Cholula, Puebla, México, 2014-2017

Objective: to discuss the complex notion of territory approaching the conflicts that unfolded in the archaeological zone of Cholula, Puebla, between 2014 and 2017. Methodology: hermeneutic and qualitative study, supported by in situ observation, interviews, and review of government, academic, and press documents. Results: the disputed area of Cholula is showed as an assemblage densely conformed, simultaneously and heterogeneously by different social and technical networks. Value: the relational ontology that is used offers a deeper, more complex and systematic comprehension both of the place of the territory in the conflict in Cholula and of the different disciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches that have responded to it. Limitations: there are other useful perspectives to unravel the conflict studied here, such as the ecological one or the incidence of the mobilizations in community development and in the defense of the territory, among others. Conclusions: the relational condition of the disputed territory allows to appreciate why the infrastructure’s construction crosses four territory characterizations, (historical, patrimonial, socio-religious, and peri-urban), apparently stagnant but overflowed in an unpredictable way.