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Marginal Urbanisms
This volume reflects on urban development strategies that have been implemented recently in Latin America. Over the past twenty years, there has been great improvement in governmental efficiency, with local and national governments executing important projects that increase the quality of life in cities. However, the causes of collective disadvantage – which created the problems governments attempt to resolve – continue to affect many people throughout the continent. Thus, the essays here examine a wide range of socioeconomic, political, ethnic and historical issues that have influenced the emergence of marginal urbanisms in Latin American cities. The argument most strongly presented in this book is that infrastructural insertions need to be considered as the baseline for urban development, not as its main goal. Urban infrastructure cannot be taken as the only target for urban development programmes, but rather as an instrument for achieving more significant, and inclusive, urban transformations that respond more adequately to the realities of the people who inhabit Latin American cities.
The New Extractivism
In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments: to pursue, or not, a development strategy based on resource extraction in the face of immense social and environmental costs, not to mention mass resistance from the people negatively affected by it. With fresh insight and analysis from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, this book looks at the political dynamics of capitalist development in a region where the neoliberal model is collapsing under the weight of a resistance movement lead by peasant farmers and indigenous communities. It calls for us to understand the new extractivism not as a viable development model for the post-neoliberal world, but as the dangerous emergence of a new form of imperialism.
Latin America's Multicultural Movements
Bringing together the expertise of dozens of Latin American scholars, Latin America's Multicultural Movements examines multicultural rights recognition in theory and in practice. Yucatán).
Conocimiento, ambiente y poder
El libro Conocimiento, ambiente y poder. Perspectivas desde la ecología política es la segunda obra de la Red de Estudios Sobre Sociedad y Medio Ambiente (RESMA), la cual congrega a más de una docena de investigadores pertenecientes a diferentes instituciones académicas del país y del extranjero. Entre 2012 y 2016, discutimos y analizamos: ¿en qué medida las percepciones de la naturaleza son moldeadas por el conocimiento? ¿Qué tipo de conocimientos son legitimados en los procesos contenciosos o conflictivos? ¿Cuál es el papel del poder en la definición de los procesos sociales que intervienen en el cambio ambiental?
La amazonía minada
Durante los últimos diez años, entre el 2007 y el 2017, el gobierno liderado por Rafael Correa implementó una nueva política para facilitar el arranque de la minería a gran escala en el Ecuador y de esa manera insertar al país en el mapa minero mundial. Esta apuesta política fue acompañada por el resurgimiento de conflictos y cuestionamientos sobre los impactos ambientales y sociales que se generan alrededor de los procesos de extracción, tanto a nivel local como nacional. En este contexto, el proyecto de minería a gran escala con más avance en el Ecuador —el proyecto Mirador en la amazonía sur ecuatoriana— se ha convertido en una prueba de fuego tanto para esta nueva políti...
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