Visiones Críticas del Patrimonio Cultural. Discursos, Prácticas Y Alternativas (Coordinación)

This book is the result of a collective effort to articulate different perspectives on cultural heritage and, at the same time, a critique of the discourses built around it. The articles that make up this work bring us closer to important theoretical reflections, research results, critical and methodological reflections, and research techniques used in studies of historical and cultural heritage in the Latin American context. It is in our interest to present this work to the academic community as a contribution to the debates on cultural heritage and its multiple representations and interpretations. Likewise, it is important to highlight that the articles contained in this book will highlight aspects that go beyond those commonly associated with the nationalist processes of the State, situating the discussion in critical visions of the discourses and practices that are commonly built around the heritage, to make room for new ways of weaving alternatives to the homogenizing discourses of historical and cultural heritage. To account for this purpose, the articles address aspects that allow understanding social, political, cultural and economic dynamics framed in discourses, practices and alternatives, and their interrelationships in the construction of identities and social agencies. In this sense, we seek that the articles are the product of research experiences framed in theoretical, methodological and even epistemological discussions on heritage. The interest of this work is none other than to influence the processes of collective, critical and participatory construction of heritage and its discourses, open the debate to new ways of seeing and building heritage, and promote local research processes and their territorial and historical links with the past and present. The book compiles articles from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil and Spain that bring us closer to different realities in which Julián García Labrador 10 cultural heritage and its discursive construction pose important interpretive challenges and criticisms of that focused gaze with which presents heritage. From Mexico, Guadalupe Margarita González Hernández opens the reflection with her work: Cultural and spatial commodification in the tourist Historic Center of Zacatecas. In her text, the author addresses how the capital accumulation project in the Historic Center of Zacatecas (CHZ) in Mexico, went from the conservation and protection of built heritage to the creation of a tourist activity managed by small local businesses that provide services. Services that was absorbed by national capital directed to massive and transnational tourism managed by monopolistic companies that have generated a global process of capital accumulation. Thus, his work aims to reveal the origin, evolution and characteristics of the capital accumulation process through the valorization of cultural heritage in the Historic Center of Zacatecas. The article: Pre-Columbianism and modernity: between aesthetic v.