An International Conference organized by the Mexican Center of the
Institute of Latin American Studies. The University of Texas at Austin.
February 4-5, 1994.
Friday, February 4
Session 1: The Impact of Ejidal Land in Residential and City Development.
This session will focus upon the mechanisms whereby ejidal land has been
disestablished in the past both for low and upper-income residential
developments. We will explore the economic and social costs of different
modes of land production; the temporal and spatial opportunities for access
to ejidal land by the urban poor; the impact upon urban expansion and
socio-economic heterogeneity in Mexican cities. Specifically, we will begin
to assess the likely outcomes of reform upon urban expansion, access to
land for the poor, and upon future patterns of residential segregation.
With the participation of Daniel Hiernaux, Gareth Jones, Peter Ward and
Bill Siembieda among others.
Session 2: The Principal Actors and Interests in the Production of Ejidal
Land Development.
The aim, here, is to identify the variety of interests involved in the
process of ejidal land development (ejidatarios, public institutions, real
estate agents, non-agrarian social movements and organizations etc.) We
will also explore how those sets of actors have sought to articulate their
interests through the production of residential land. An important task
will be to speculate about how these sets of interests are likely to react
now that the ejido may be dis-established legally. With the participation
of Edith Jimenez, Ma. Soledad Cruz Rodriguez, Martha Schteingart among
others.
Saturday, February 5
Session 3: Planning and Institutional Responses to Ejidal Land Development
Processes.
This session will examine the sucess of past initiatives to: a) regularize
"clouded" land titles; and b) to plan for urban development through
programs such as "reservas territoriales." We will also explore the
dynamics of institutional politics at the federal and state levels insofar
as these have been represented in planning and ejidal land development
issues. Here, the principal task will be to identify the future policy
approaches and instruments deemed most appropriate to confront the
opportunities now provided by Reformed Article 27. What role should future
Mexican public institutions play in the urban development process,
particularly when they embrace ejidal lands? With the participation of
Antonio Azuela, David Cymet, Emilio Duhau, Roberto Eibenschutz, Patrice
Mele, Noemi Stolarski, Alberto Rebora and others.
Session 4: Preparation Final Memorandum
Several officials from the Procuraduria Agraria, CORETT, SEDESOL, DART
(DF), and officials from Aguascalientes, Puebla and Chihuahua have
confirmed their attendance to this conference.
-Presentations will be given in English or Spanish and it seems likely that
much of the meeting will be conducted in Spanish.
-Papers will be kept to 20 minutes in order to allow sufficient time for
discussion.
-Location: LBJ School of Public Affairs, Room 3.111
-Tentative schedule for both days: 9 am-5 pm.
-All sessions are open at no charge.
-Please, make your own travel and hotel arrangements.
Mexican Center
512-471-5551
e-mail: mexctr@emx.utexas.edu