24 December 2021

Territorialising Space in Latin America

A book on territory and territoriality in Latin America, based on a pair of sessions at the 2018 Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers that I organized together with Mike McCall, has just been published by Springer. Here are the highlights:

  • Investigates, from a grounded and contemporary perspective, how the notion of territory is being used in Latin America
  • Covers significant theoretical and methodological approaches regarding territory and territoriality
  • Highlights current trends of geographical research on Latin America from a wide diversity of researchers

Michael K. McCall, Andrew Boni Noguez, Brian Napoletano, and Tyanif Rico-Rodríguez (eds.). 2021. Territorialising Space in Latin America: Processes and Perceptions. Cham: Springer, 262.
ISBN: 978-3-030-82221-7

Introduction

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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