Land Use – Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I

Olaf Kaltmeier, María Fernanda López Sandoval, José Augusto Pádua, Adrián Gustavo Zarrilli, Olaf Kaltmeier, María Fernanda López Sandoval, José Augusto Pádua, Adrián Gustavo Zarrilli

• Publisher: Bielefeld University Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9783837670110
• eBook ISBN: 9783839470114
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Social Sciences

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. The contributions touch upon numerous aspects, from the transformations of material to the social practices, their political and legal regulations as well as the imaginaries of virgin territories. Consequently, far from limiting themselves to a static cartography of land use, the contributors investigate the appropriations of borders and historic transformations in land use.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Academic Advisory Board
• General Introduction
• Colonial Period
• From the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950
• From 1950 to the Present
• Appendix