Land Use - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaltmeier, Olaf, 1970-

Contributor:

López Sandoval, María Fernanda.

Pádua, José Augusto.

Zarrilli, Adrián Gustavo.

Universität Bielefeld, Funder.

Series:

Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.

The Anthropocene As Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Social aspects--Latin America--History.

Land use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Kaltmeier Olaf : Olaf Kaltmeier, geb. 1970, ist Professor für Iberoamerikanische Geschichte an der Universität Bielefeld und Direktor des Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) in Guadalajara mit Regionalstandorten in Buenos Aires, Quito und San Jos de Costa Rica. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: Latein- und inter-amerikanische Geschichte, Soziale Bewegungen, Ethnizität im historischen Wandel, Umweltgeschichte sowie Macht- und Herrschaftskonstellationen im Kontext der Globalisierung.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Academic Advisory Board

General Introduction

The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis

Periods of the Anthropocene's Genealogy in Latin America

Colonial Period

From the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950

From 1950 to the Present

Anthropocene Regions in Latin America

Southern Cone

Andes

Amazon

Mesoamerica

Caribbean

Land Use

Final Words

Introduction: Land Use in Colonial Latin America in the Anthropocene History

References

Land Use in the Southern Cone in the Colonial Period

Demographic Change

Changes in Land Use from an Indigenous Perspective

Land Use for Food and Commerce

Location, Resources, and Imperial Strategy

Conclusion

Land Use in the Andes in the Colonial Period

The Andean Space in History: Geosystems and Cultures

The Impact of the Conquest and Changes in Land Ownership

Royal Lands, Grants, Reductions, and Compositions

Technological Changes and New Products

The New Livestock Farming

The Impact of Colonial Mining on the Landscape and the Environment

The Export Market, Plantation Systems, and Cinchona Extraction

Conclusions

Land Use in the Amazon in the Colonial Period

Representations of the Conquest

Colonization Projects: Missions and Cities (Seventeenth Century)

Enlightenment Projects (Eighteenth Century)

Environmental Impacts

Land Use in Mesoamerica in the Colonial Period

Mesoamerica: Imprints of the Future of a Region in the Long Term

Land Use at the Time of Conquest

Land‐use Actors and Transformation Factors

Land, Property, and Labor: Setting and Implementing Crown Policies

Resistance and Rebellions in the 300 Years of Colonialism in New Spain.

New Productive Geographies: the Extractive Model and New Spatial Configurations

Urban‐Rural Rearticulation: Roads and Cities in the Web of New Land Uses

Mining and Forestry

Finance and Livestock: Consolidating Land Grabbing in Mesoamerica

Discussion and Conclusions

Land Use in the Caribbean in the Colonial Period

The Hatera Society in the Hispanic Insular Caribbean

Sugar and Slave Islands

Cattle Ranching in Plantation Colonies and Smuggling

Brief Conclusions

Introduction: Land Use, Second Conquest, and the Anthropocene in Latin America from the Mid‑Nineteenth Century to 1950

Land Use in the Southern Cone from the Mid‑Nineteenth Century to 1950

Brazil, the Mercantile Use of Land from the Colonial to the Independent Period

The Southern Cone of Spanish America

Land Use in the Andes from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950

Crises in the Tropical Andes

Land Use Change

Biomass Plantations and Extractivisms

Final Discussion

Land Use in the Amazon from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950

Nation‐State Projects and Evangelization: from "Empty" and Wild Territory to Inexhaustible Source of Resources

Travelers, Scientific Expeditions, and Chorographic Commissions

From Military Engineers to Civilian Engineers

Cinchona, Rubber and the Incorporation of the Amazon into the Global Market

Land Use in Mesoamerica from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950

Antecedents: the Colonial Legacy

Economic Liberalism in the Period 1810-1870

Agrarian Nationalism and Transnational Interventionism (1870-1930)

Developmentalism and Scientific and Technological Intervention in the Countryside (1930-1950).

Discussion from the Anthropocene: Strategies and Resistance to Environmental Crises

Land Use in the Caribbean from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950

The Slave Sugar Plantations

The Era of Power Plants

Other Agricultural Land Uses

Transitions in Livestock Farming

Final Note

Introduction: Land Use in the Latin American Anthropocene from 1950 to the Present

Land Use in the Southern Cone from 1950 to the Present

Geographic‐Ecological and Socio‐Historical Context

Territorial Transformations

The "Soybean Republic:" an Example of Territorial Metabolism

Land Use in the Andes from 1950 to the Present

Dispute over Land and Gradual Appearance of the Environmental Issue in Debates

Structural Changes and Exacerbation of Land Scarcity during the Twentieth Century

Agrarian Reforms and the Beginnings of a Critical Debate on the Modernization and Expansion of the Agricultural Frontier

End of Agrarian Reforms, Globalization, Extractivism, and Environmentalist Turn(s)

Access to Land and Spatial Forms of Land Use Transformation

The Acceleration of the Expansion of the Agricultural Frontier

Uncontrolled Expansion of Urbanized Land and Associated Resource Degradation

The Direct and Indirect Consequences of the Extraction of Non‐Agricultural Natural Resources

Conclusions: Access and Control of Land as a Possibility of Reversing Anthropocene Processes

Land Use in the Amazon from 1950 to the Present

Population Growth as Common Driver of Landscape Domestication and Contemporary Land Cover Transformations

The Indigenous Land Use Footprint and Environmentalist Narrative

The Colonist Farmer Footprint and the Frontier Land Narrative.

Conclusions: The Anthropocene as an Analytical Framework of Contemporary Landscape Transformations in Amazonia and Beyond

Land Use in Mesoamerica from 1950 to the Present

Plantationocene and Environmental Violence

The State as a Major Catalyst of Development Violence (1950-1980)

Transformations in Land Use (1950‐ 1980)

The Agroexport Boom and Developmental Capitalism in Central America

The Uneven Development of the Mexican Agricultural Sector

The Neoliberal Shift: The Appropriation of Globalized Land (1980‐present)

Resistance and Conflict (1980‐present)

Land Use in the Caribbean from 1950 to the Present

Land Use Patterns

Axis I: Agriculture

Axis II: Urbanization

Axis III: Services

Appendix

Biographical Notes.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783839470114

3839470110

OCLC:

1450105782