This article explores the meanings of infrastructural changes resulting from the Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec (CIIT) infrastructure project for the cultural survival of Indigenous peoples resident in the Tehuantepec Isthmus region through the lens of ontological justice. Based on interviews with affected residents in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, this research finds a strong desire for cultural continuity, collective life projects, Indigenous languages, cultural identities, beliefs, spirituality, established political and legal systems, and a solidarity economy. Contemporary megacorridors function as circulatory infrastructures that shift the life-reproducing benefits from territories elsewhere, thereby effectively imposing integration and assimilation of Indigenous peoples, Afrodescendant and comunidades equiparables into the dominant modern/colonial extractivist one-world world, and provoking mundicide. This article provides an empirical case for the urgency of recreating an ontodiverse world order that can guarantee the futurity of other ways of world-making.

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作为世界橡皮擦的基础设施大型项目：特万特佩克地峡跨洋走廊背景下的文化生存


本文通过本体论正义的视角探讨了 Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec （CIIT） 基础设施项目为居住在 Tehuantepec 地峡地区的土著人民的文化生存而引起的基础设施变化的意义。根据对瓦哈卡州和韦拉克鲁斯州受影响居民的采访，本研究发现他们对文化连续性、集体生活项目、土著语言、文化认同、信仰、灵性、既定的政治和法律制度以及团结经济的强烈渴望。当代巨型走廊充当循环基础设施，将生命繁殖的好处从其他地方转移出去，从而有效地将土著人民、非洲人后裔和社区同化者融入和同化到占主导地位的现代/殖民采掘主义单一世界，并引发世界灭绝。本文提供了一个实证案例，说明重建一个本体多样的世界秩序的紧迫性，以保证其他世界创造方式的未来性。