Sep 2026· Bulletin of Latin American Research· Vol 45· 0 citations· 7 references
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This article examines how the expansion of agribusiness and water infrastructure has reconfigured Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil, through neoextractivist dynamics with neocolonial traits. Drawing on documentary analysis and socio‐environmental indicators, it investigates how transnational capital, state mediation and integration into global commodity markets reorganise the territory. The findings show that these mechanisms concentrate control over land, water and strategic infrastructure whilst externalising socio‐environmental costs onto local communities. The article's main contribution lies in distinguishing neoextractivism as a territorial pattern of accumulation from neocolonialism as the power relationship that sustains it.
ABSTRACT This research note, informed by qualitative fieldwork with resource harvesters in Nova Scotia, explores the effect of economic change and ecological crisis, the outcomes of rural development strategies, and demographic shifts that have shaped the province's rural areas in recent years. It argues that our prese...
Evan Curley· Canadian Review of Sociology...· 0 citations
This article examines agrarian extractivism in Matopiba, highlighting land financialization as a central mechanism in the accumulation of wealth, the persistence of inequality, and food insecurity in Brazil’s “newest” agricultural frontier. The study demonstrates how land financialization, land concentration, and the p...
Carlos Vinicius Gomes Araujo, Milena de Oliveira Evangelista, Sérgio Sauer· GEOUSP Espaço e Tempo (Onlin...· 0 citations
The Mexican corrido and narcocorrido integrate a historical system of production, transmission, and preservation of information, sustained by the social cultural-political- historical-commercial conditions and the conjunctural processes of different eras. These semiotic-discursive productions can be analyzed from the S...
This article offers a critical qualitative review of the intellectual production of the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations (IEPRI) and Análisis Político in order to explain how territorial questions became visible within Colombian political knowledge. The core finding is that IEPRI did not simpl...
Néstor Fernando De León Llanos· Análisis Político· 0 citations
This article analyses the contemporary dynamics of the coloniality of knowledge in Senegal through a reflection on the relationship between colonial legacy and the configuration of the postcolonial state, taking the case of the Family Code as its anchor point. Drawing on the contributions of postcolonial and decolonial...
The paper analyzes how territorial security has been incorporated as a safeguarding strategy for intangible cultural heritage in Minas Gerais, in the context of the advance of neoliberal policies, the impacts of climate change on traditional communities, and the positioning of these groups as active agents in the strug...
N. Batista· Patrimônio e Memória· 0 citations
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