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The Tropical Silk Road
This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk Road" agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-African "Belt and Road Initiative" to a series of mine, port, energy, infrastructure, and agrobusiness megaprojects in the Latin American tropics. Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impre...
Oil Sparks in the Amazon
"For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts focused on the causes and effects of natural resources mismanagement, commonly known as the "resource curse"-the paradoxical connection between oil wealth and economic busts (as in Venezuela) or, in a later twist, the link between the predatory behavior of armed rebel organizations and the abundant natural resources that funded their existence. Patricia Vasquez notes that oil busts and civil wars associated with the resource curse were quite different from the now-predominant local hydrocarbons disputes that are multiplying rapidly in Latin America. These more recent, localized disputes-over land, population displacement, water contamination, oi...
Miradas alternativas desde la diferencia y las subalternidades
Este libro colectivo es una anomalía no sólo por su posicionamiento geopolítico y geoepistémico para incidir en el papel y más allá de él, sino también por entrelazar voces y perspectivas de mujeres y hombres de Brasil, Bolivia, Colombia y Ecuador que se entusiasman y esfuerzan por, conjuntamente, relevar el poder de la colonialidad que aún continúa, e imaginar y encaminar lo decolonial. Así también problematiza y desafía el pensamiento occidental como patrón único universal; al mismo tiempo que plantea consideraciones, propone rutas y provoca nuevas formas y perspectivas de criticidad desde y con los grupos humanos, los conocimientos y las experiencias y prácticas de nuestra América del Sur
Demanding Justice and Security
Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have challenged ‘bad customs’ and gender ideologies that exclude women within their own communities. Featuring chapters on Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico, the contributors to Demanding Justice and Security include both leading researchers and community activists. From Kichwa women in Ecuador lobbying for the inclusion of specific clauses in the national constitution that guarantee their rights to equality and protection within indigenous community law, to Me’phaa women from Guerrero, Mexico, battling to secure justice within the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violations committed in the context of militarizing their home state, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the struggle of indigenous women in Latin America.
Democracy
In recent decades, powerful institutions have packaged Western democracy for export around the globe. Although Western democracy is grounded in specific historical experiences and cultural assumptions, advocates have generally taken its normative status for granted. So too have most academics. Yet if democracy is broadly understood as government by "the people," it must necessarily differ along with "the people" in question. Just what "the will of the people" is and how it might be realized become questions of pressing importance. Rather than advance alternative definitions of democracy, celebrate alternative democracies, or posit alternatives to democracy, the contributors to this volume fo...
Visiones críticas del patrimonio cultural
Los artículos recogidos en Visiones críticas del patrimonio cultural: discursos, prácticas y alternativas, son el resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo por articular distintas miradas sobre el patrimonio cultural y es, a su vez, una crítica a los discursos construidos en torno a él. Los artículos que componen esta obra nos acercan a importantes reflexiones críticas, metodológicas y a técnicas de investigación utilizadas en los estudios del patrimonio histórico y cultural en el contexto latinoamericano. Es nuestro interés presentar esta obra a la comunidad académica y a la sociedad como un aporte a los debates sobre el patrimonio cultural y sus múltiples representaciones e interpretaciones. Así mismo, es importante destacar que los artículos contenidos en este libro resaltan aspectos que van más allá de los que comúnmente están asociados a los procesos nacionalistas del Estado, situando la discusión en visiones críticas sobre los discursos y las prácticas que se construyen alrededor del patrimonio, para dar cabida a nuevas formas de tejer alternativas a los discursos homogenizantes del patrimonio histórico y cultural en América Latina.
