Urban Resistance to Climate Change: Critical Consumption, Agroecology and Territorial Defense in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Abstract

This article shows how —in the face of crisis scenarios— social organisations generate resistance to what causes environmental deterioration and affects the life of communities, especially in large cities. By means of creative political actions, the groups presented here manage to maintain the possibilities of a dignified and healthy life. We focus our study on urban organisations oriented towards critical consumption, agro-ecology and the defence of the territory, which act in the city of Guadalajara Mexico, and which with their actions contribute to diminishing climate change caused by environmental deterioration. When we approach the practices of these groups, we find that, in addition to their concrete actions, there is a symbolic impact, with potential to prefigure other possible worlds, including social groups that have been marginalized and overshadowed in large cities.