Centro Maria Sibylla Merian
Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to the dynamics of colonization, spatial appropriation, and the commodification of land. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on land use in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene.
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Agustín Laó-Montes holds a PhD in historical sociology from Binghamton University in New York (20003) and is an Afro-descendant intellectual-activist of Puerto Rican origin. He is a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts where he is also a research fellow at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and coordinator of the graduate program in African Diasporas in the PhD in Afro-American Studies.
El presente libro es resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo por abordar algunas de las paradojas que traviesan el territorio amazónico en la región andina. Estas paradojas se configuran alrededor de la contradicción entre la preponderancia de este territorio como fuente de riqueza y la visión histórica estatal que lo ha considerado como espacio marginal. El cambio del milenio ha incorporado nuevos fenómenos económicos, políticos y ambientales que repercuten en condiciones sociales que mantienen y, quizá, agudizan dicha condición.
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Néfer Muñoz Solano es profesor asociado de español en la Universidad de Dallas y actual fellow del CALAS en la sede Regional de Centroamérica y el Caribe. A través de esta entrevista nos acerca a los paisajes literarios y cinematográficos para reflexionar sobre la representación de las crisis ambientales y la naturaleza, dando a conocer la importancia que tiene la Centroamérica contemporánea dentro de su investigación.
On January 14, 2020, a new Central American Caravan left San Pedro Sula: the first of that year. Although the COVID-19 pandemic was only starting, these caravans would continue. By March 2021, an unprecedented number of Central American migrants were located on the border with the United States. In complex humanitarian emergencies such as this, not only the causes and effects are multiple, but so are the ways in which States and societies respond to them. By observing these responses, we established the link between peace, violence, and migration in three ways.
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Magdalena Perkowska holds a PhD in Spanish and Hispanic Literatures from Rutgers, The State University of New Jeresey, USA, and a Full Professor of Latin American Literature at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her areas of specialization include Latin American narrative of the 20th twentieth and 21st twenty-first centuries, with emphasis on Central America, literary and cultural theory, visual and memory studies, and affect theories.
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