Los conflictos socio-culturales del Poniente Almeriense: El Ejido, una aproximación desde los Estudios para la Paz

Abstract

The present article aims to demonstrate existent relationships between racism and the society in the city of "El Ejido" in Almeria, southern Spain, in a holistic way. This existent relationship will be displayed from an anthropological viewpoint, based on the Cultural Materialism Theory by Marvin Harris and the general Theory of Conflicts by Johan Galtung, at the same time as looking for a nexus with the approaches of Francisco Jiménez, leading cultural materialism towards an anthropology for peace. This investigation of scientific character, is based on diagnostics, prognostics and therapy of the pathologies derived from the new postmodern society. The fictionalization which subjugates the society, stemming from Biopolitics and Biopower or excessive use of symbolic, direct, or structural power, leads towards a shared nihilism, which presents a multi-pathological diagnosis which forms a diffuse and hostile social fabric, where racism reveals itself in a subtle way. In reference to this, what we propose as a possible solution of the multidimensional conflict of racism, within the scope of the general theory of conflicts and peace studies, is the eradication of the violence through the application of the Neutral Peace Theory, developed and promoted by Francisco Jiménez, in the diverse contexts where the germ of discriminatory racism makes itself visible.