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View article: Negotiating Collective Land Rights in the Andes: Insights from contrasting trajectories on the Bolivian-Chilean altiplano, 1880s–1930s
Negotiating Collective Land Rights in the Andes: Insights from contrasting trajectories on the Bolivian-Chilean altiplano, 1880s–1930s Open
This article develops a historicising and comparative perspective on the transformation, formalisation, and negotiation of collective land rights in the Andean Highlands. It discusses and compares the trajectories of two highland areas sit…
View article: Life Out Of Place: Revisiting Species Invasions. Introduction to the Special Issue
Life Out Of Place: Revisiting Species Invasions. Introduction to the Special Issue Open
This introduction begins at the Bruges 2018 Triennial Liquid City, where the research and design collective Rotor, the Ghent Centre for Global Studies, and Anna L. Tsing organised an interdisciplinary workshop on the trajectories of displa…
View article: The Voyages of a Potato Companion: Phytophthora Infestans
The Voyages of a Potato Companion: Phytophthora Infestans Open
Accompanying a shipment of potatoes in 1845, a fungus-like traveller unintentionally made it to Europe, after having maintained a low profile for centuries in Latin America. Decades later, scientists identified this stowaway as the basic i…
View article: Historicizing more-than-human knowledge practices around water in the Lake Poopó basin, Bolivia
Historicizing more-than-human knowledge practices around water in the Lake Poopó basin, Bolivia Open
This article develops a more-than-human and historicizing perspective on the co-creation of water knowledge in and around Lake Poopó, Bolivia, an Andean wetland area of international importance threatened by desertification. Through a comb…
View article: Peasant frontiers as a research strategy: peasant resilience and the reproduction of common land rights
Peasant frontiers as a research strategy: peasant resilience and the reproduction of common land rights Open
Common land rights are nowadays identified as a pivotal action terrain for building sustainable development and climate resilience. This often leads to an idealisation of these common land systems and the people that manage them. This arti…
View article: Fieldwork in the Poultry Capital of the World
Fieldwork in the Poultry Capital of the World Open
Hanne Cottyn and Stha Yeni of the CFI spoke with Carrie Freshour about cheap meat, workers’ care and resistance, and fieldwork in Georgia, USA, which has been named the “poultry capital of the world.” The article is a lightly edited transc…
View article: Oso, Osito ¿A Qué Venís? Andean Bear Conflict, Conservation, and Campesinos in the Colombian Páramos
Oso, Osito ¿A Qué Venís? Andean Bear Conflict, Conservation, and Campesinos in the Colombian Páramos Open
This article proposes a historical, multispecies, and ontological approach to human–wildlife conflict (HWC) in the Colombian páramos. Focusing on the páramos surrounding the capital city of Bogotá, we reconstruct the historically changing …
View article: Review of Barter and social regeneration in the Argentinean Andes
Review of Barter and social regeneration in the Argentinean Andes Open
'Barter and social regeneration in the Argentinean Andes', by Olivia Angé. Berghahn Books, 2018
View article: Copper, llamas and a virus
Copper, llamas and a virus Open
This essay reflects on my re-encounter with the llama herders of Turco (Bolivia) and their entanglement with histories of capitalism and indigenous resistance (after many years without visiting). The pandemic sheds a new light on these shi…
View article: Commodity Frontiers: Capitalism and Contestation in the Countryside
Commodity Frontiers: Capitalism and Contestation in the Countryside Open
This brief paper explores the potential and limits of the concept of ‘commodity frontiers’ to further develop the notion of ‘contested territories’ theoretically and methodologically.
View article: The ‘Societal Turn’. Historicising Future Society
The ‘Societal Turn’. Historicising Future Society Open
As a group of young historians we are strongly convinced that the future of social and economic history will be a collective endeavour that crosses institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Only by means of continuous and intensive intera…
View article: A World-Systems Frontier Perspective to Land: Exploring the Uneven Trajectory of Land Rights Standardization in the Andes
A World-Systems Frontier Perspective to Land: Exploring the Uneven Trajectory of Land Rights Standardization in the Andes Open
This paper proposes a world-systems frontier perspective by approaching frontiers and frontier zones as analytical tools in indicating and understanding the uneven local-global interactions underlying world-systemic incorporation processes…
View article: Into their land and labours : a comparative and global analysis of trajectories of peasant transformation
Into their land and labours : a comparative and global analysis of trajectories of peasant transformation Open
The fate of rural societies in the past and today cannot be understood in a singular manner. Peasantries across the world have followed different trajectories of change and have developed divergent repertoires of accommodation, adaptation …
View article: The Great Commodification and its paradoxes : a historical, comparative and global perspective on land regimes and land reforms
The Great Commodification and its paradoxes : a historical, comparative and global perspective on land regimes and land reforms Open
This presentation applies a comparative and global perspective to regional trajectories of land reforms and rural change within a globalizing world (18th -21st centuries). The struggle over the allocation of (rights over) resources between…
View article: Mantener la exvinculación a raya: reformas liberales y derechos comunitarios en Carangas, 1860-1930
Mantener la exvinculación a raya: reformas liberales y derechos comunitarios en Carangas, 1860-1930 Open
The present article analyses the repercussions of the liberal laws implemented in Bolivia at the end of the nineteenth century for the indigenous communities of the (now fragmented) province of Carangas in the Oruro department. Despite the…