Re-examinando al volcán El Chichonal: prosopopeya de un lugar sagrado

The Chichonal volcano eruption (Chiapas, 1982) generated significant and immediate socio-environmental impacts, as well as constituting a turning point in the lives of the Zoque People, who attributed to it new meanings as a sacred place or enchantment symbolically associated with the spirits of the deceased people and ancestors. With the aim of reflecting on the relevance of that site and the local notion of encanto, this paper focus in how the volcano, considered a sacred entity with agency, became a reference point for collective memory, an articulator of discontinuous geographies, a repository of different regimes of historicity, and a protagonist of agrarian and political conflicts, as well as an impulse to reflexivity on social justice for those affected by State abandonment.