Procesos socioambientales, educación y jóvenes indígenas en Chiapas. Una aproximación etnográfica

Abstract

This article aims to carry out an ethnographic approach to the interactions indigenous Tsotsil, Tseltal, Ch’ol and Zoque youth have with their natural and social envi-ronment and with the land as an axis of sociocultural and economic life throughout Chiapas. It is argued that in these interactions, known as socio-environmental processes, formal education and pluriactivity, related to migratory phenomena, constitute spheres of social experience where young people reflect or act. Finally, the interviews carried out with local social actors and the ethnographic documentation in general, provid-ed a comparative view whose value lies in the explan-atory possibilities of why Indigenous young students of high school or university could be considered socio-environmental subjects and the ways in which they are facing environmental problems.