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Agroecology in Policy and Practice
In the past years, there has been steady growth in work relating to agroecology. People-centred, knowledge-intensive and rooted to sustainability, it is now well established that agroecology matches the transformative approach called for by the 2030 Agenda; a transition to sustainable food and agriculture systems that ensures food security and nutrition for all, provides social and economic equity, and conserves biodiversity and the ecosystem services on which agriculture depends. Although not a new concept, agroecology is today gaining interest worldwide among a wide range of actors as an effective answer to climate change and the interrelated challenges facing food systems, finding expression in the practices of food producers, in grassroots social processes for sustainability and the public policies of many countries around the world.
Relationality
This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things. The authors contend that the key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the fundamental interdependence of everything that exists – what they refer to as relationality. This shift in paradigm is necessary for healing our bodies, ecosystems, cities, and the planet at large. The book follows two interwoven threads of argument...
The Social Life of Standards
Standards. We apply them, uphold them, or fail to meet them. But how do they get made? Through twelve ethnographic case studies, The Social Life of Standards reveals how standards – political and technical tools for organizing society – are developed, applied, subverted, contested, and reassembled by local communities interacting with norms often created by others. Contributors explore standards at work across different countries and contexts, such as Ebola biomedical safety precautions in Senegal, Colombian farmers contesting politicized seed regulations, and the application of Indigenous standards to Canadian environmental assessments. They emphasize the uncomfortable fit between the inconsistent implementation of standards in the real world and the non-negotiable criteria presupposed by external forces. The Social Life of Standards provides support for a reflexive process that involves local engagement. Ultimately, the goal should be to reach a balance between evidence-based science and the social contexts that can inform more useful and appropriate standards.
Placing Latin America
Placing Latin America offers a thematic approach to the study of the diverse geographies of a globalizing region. This comprehensive text focuses on the dynamic connections between people, places, and environments rather than on predefined notions about the region. The book’s well-rounded and accessible analysis includes discussions of borders and migration, transnationalism and globalization, urbanization and landscapes of cities, the connections between economic development and political change, the physical environment and human-environmental interactions, and natural resources in the context of a global economy. The authors also explore social and cultural themes such as the illegal drug trade, social movements, tourism, and children and young people. Providing a nuanced and clear perspective, this book will be an invaluable guide for all those interested in the politics, economy, and society of a rapidly changing continent.
El posacuerdo en Colombia
El presente libro se basa en las presentaciones realizadas en el taller “Repensando los Cercamientos en Colombia desde un Contexto Regional y Global. El papel del Territorio, la Colonialidad y la Temporalidad”, llevado a cabo en la Universidad del Rosario. Los textos enriquecidos por los intercambios y los debates que se dieron durante el mismo, así como por la escritura de cada uno de los capítulos en diálogo con los comentarios y las sugerencias de los editores de este volumen. Los Acuerdos de Paz constituyen un hito que marca un antes y un después, una hendidura en el tiempo histórico de las sociedades. A partir del análisis detenido de casos, actores y procesos específicos y distintivos, los capítulos que integran este libro coinciden en que el tiempo de “posacuerdo” que se abre después de la firma de los acuerdos de paz se sobreimprime a una realidad social, territorial y temporal heterogénea y desigual. Reponer analíticamente el carácter situado y, por lo mismo cambiante, del devenir del posacuerdo constituye uno de los desafíos centrales de este libro.
Seed Activism
How lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability of plants and seeds, farmers’ rights, and the public interest. Over the past decade, legal challenges have arisen in the Global South over patents on genetically modified crops. In this ethnographic study, Karine E. Peschard explores the effects of these disputes on people’s lives, while uncovering the role of power—material, institutional, and discursive—in shaping laws and legal systems. The expansion of corporate intellectual property (IP), she shows, negatively impacts farmers’ rights and, by extension, the right to food, since small farms produce the bulk of food for domestic consumpt...
Descomposición vital
En Colombia, décadas de conflicto social y armado enredadas con la política antidroga de los Estados Unidos ha creado una situación insostenible para científicos y comunidades rurales que intentan cuidar selvas y suelos además de buscar alternativas a los cultivos ilícitos. En Descomposición Vital, Kristina Lyons presenta una etnografía de las relaciones humanos-suelos. Ella acompaña a agrólogos y campesinos en laboratorios, invernaderos, bosques y fincas para intentar comprender las luchas y colaboraciones entre comunidades rurales, movimientos agrarios, funcionarios estatales y científicos. Todos ellos involucrados con las definiciones e implementaciones de paz, productividad, d...
Pluriverso
Pluriverso: un diccionario del posdesarrollo es una estimulante colección de más de 100 ensayos sobre alternativas transformadoras a los actuales procesos dominantes del desarrollo globalizado, incluidas sus raíces estructurales ancladas en los valores del patriarcado, la modernidad, el capitalismo y el dominio estatal. En el imaginario posdesarrollista, el desarrollo ya no sería el principio organizador de la vida social. El libro presenta cosmovisiones y prácticas de todo el mundo en una búsqueda colectiva de sociedades ecológicamente sabias y socialmente justas. También ofrece ensayos críticos sobre una serie de falsas soluciones que quienes detentan el poder están proponiendo, en un intento de ecologizar el desarrollo. Entre los más de 120 coautores del volumen encontramos activistas, académicos y profesionales con una vasta experiencia en sus respectivas áreas de investigación.
Community of Peace
Achieving peace is often thought about in terms of military operations or state negotiations. Yet it also happens at the grassroots level, where communities envision and create peace on their own. The San José de Apartadó Peace Community of small-scale farmers has not waited for a top-down peace treaty. Instead, they have actively resisted forced displacement and co-optation by guerrillas, army soldiers, and paramilitaries for two decades in Colombia’s war-torn Urabá region. Based on ethnographic action research over a twelve-year period, Christopher Courtheyn illuminates the community’s understandings of peace and territorial practices against ongoing assassinations and displacement....
