Territorial transformations in the southeast region of Mexico. Case study: the Mayan train project. An educational perspective

Transformaciones territoriales de la región sur sureste de México. caso de estudio: proyecto Tren Maya. una perspectiva educativa

The Mayan Train is the most important infrastructure project in the 2019-2024 National Development Plan, created to promote the development of Mexico’s Southeast region based on tourism.
This article seeks to identify the territorial transformations that the project may generate in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Yucatan. Using socioeconomic indicators as a reference to analyze the past and current situation in the intervening area.
To approach the vision of the territory, it is analyzed from the compression between knowledge and education as a transforming principle. That is, the territory and its forms of perception as in its different events in the socio-spatial transformation. Consequently, we must add the fundamental process regarding the educational issue; essential mechanism to understand the structures of production and reproduction of society on the historical material basis in the territory.