Nos Falta Capacidad

Abstract

This chapter examines how, competitive, and enterprising subjectivities were promoted through individualized capacity development in San Pedro Necta, and how it gave rise to capacidad, (training and development) as a new norm that has reorganized local conceptions and practices of self and society and promoted a new way to differentiate and rank. It is both a driver of deepening class divisions, and a way of rationalizing them. I ethnographically depict different social categories related to capacidad and explore how capacidad has enabled new economic practices, created conditions for the articulation of indigenous identity, and reshaped gender relations. The conclusion reflects on the forms of exclusion inherent in this model of advancement, and points to other ways to be human that exceed and resist the normalizing effects of capacidad.