The vision of this book is to bring together examples of grounded geographic research carried out in Latin America regarding territorial processes. These encompass a range of histories, processes, strategies and mechanisms, with case studies from ten countries and many regions: struggles to reclaim indigenous lands, conflicts over land/resource/environmental services, competing land claims, urban territorial identities, state power strategies, commercial involvements and others. The case studies included in the book represent a wide diversity of theoretical and methodological framings currently deployed in Latin America to help interpret the patterns and processes through the conceptual lenses of territory, territoriality and territorialization. Interrogating the meanings of territory introduces multiple spatial, socio-cultural and political concepts including space, place and landscape, power, control and governance, and identity and gender.
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Territorialising Space in Latin America: Processes and Perceptions is a collection of original geographical research on territorial processes in diverse settings throughout Latin America. The editors do an outstanding job of presenting different approaches to and interpretations of territory and territorialization. Their discussion is an excellent way to look at the variety and complexity of territorial concepts, offering a great diversity of available sources and literature on this topic (Luis Sįnchez-Ayala, Journal of Latin American Geography, Vol. 22 (2), September, 2023)
Chapter
1. Introduction.
Chapter
2. Recognizing Indigenous Territorial
Jurisdictions in Central America.
Chapter
3. Memory and Roots in La Nińa, a
Small Rural Town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Chapter
4. Asymmetric
Landscapes.
Chapter
5. Smallholder Farming Responses to Agrarian and
Conservation Policy in Calakmul, Mexico.
Chapter
6. Environmental
Conservation discourses and spatial legitimacy in Nicaraguas Bosawas
Biosphere Reserve.
Chapter
7. Territory and Landscape Configuration of the
Coastal Wetlands of Chiapas.
Chapter
8. Beyond Gender Perceptions:
ethnicity, complementarity and intersectionality applied to territorialities.
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9. Village-scale Territorialities in Eastern Campeche state,
Mexico.
Chapter
10. De-Indianize and Build a Nation, the case of the Kunas
and the Guaymķ of Panama.
Chapter
11. Participatory Mapping of Resistance to
Territorial Appropriation and De-Territorialisation.
Chapter
12. Mapping
Territories, disputing landscapes.
Chapter
13. Territorial Variations in
Socio-environmental Conflicts from Mining Extraction in Chile.
Chapter
14.
The Territorialisation of the Residual Spaces of Bogotį.
Chapter
15.
Geographic Rift in the Urbanization of Morelia's Periphery.
Chapter
16. Land
and Water Grabbing in the Oases of the Province of Mendoza (Argentina).-
Chapter
17. Territorialization Processes of the transnational mining company
Grupo México.
Chapter
18. Conclusions, Learnings, Challenges.
Michael K. McCall: Senior researcher, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografķa Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico.
Michael McCall studied at Bristol and Northwestern universities. He worked in ITC (University of Twente) for many years, in the University of Dar es Salaam, and in Sri Lanka. He is a social geographer engaged in Mexico and Latin America and previously in Eastern & Southern Africa. His primary research and teaching experiences are in participatory cartography of rural and urban local spatial knowledge with emphases on participatory spatial planning, territoriality, community initiatives, risks and vulnerability, and environmental management.
Andrew Boni Noguez: Associate professor, División de Ingenierķas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Andrew Boni Noguez is a geographer from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research has mainlyfocused on the geography of conflicts between communities and extractive industries and other aspects of mining in Mexico, such as mineral extraction in natural protected areas and the social implications of open pit mining. He teaches in the Geography and Geomatic Engineering programs.
Brian M. Napoletano: Assistant researcher, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografķa Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico.
Brian M. Napoletano studied biogeography at Michigan State University and Purdue University, but has since shifted his focus to the geographical dimensions of the metabolic rift, including alienation and territorial dispossession associated with capitalist urbanisation, conservation, resource extraction and other major land-change processes in the Global South. He has recently become interested in the possibilities of autogestion and successful co-revolutionary mobilisation by the world and environmental proletariat to forge a hegemonic alternative to capitals alienated mode of social-metabolic control.
Tyanif Rico-Rodrķguez: Ph.D. candidate in Geography, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografķa Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Morelia, Mexico.
Tyanif Rico-Rodrķguez is a sociologist with Masters degrees in Social Sciences and Agrarian Studies. Her research interests are in territorial conflicts, place-based strategies for territorial development and environmental governance. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography and her current project explores governance scenarios on local knowledge based on territorial relations of care among human and non-humans in the coffee landscapes in Narińo, Colombia.
