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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Michael K. McCall: Senior researcher, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico.

Michael McCall studied at Bristol and Northwestern universities. He worked in ITC (University of Twente) for many years, in the University of Dar es Salaam, and in Sri Lanka. He is a social geographer engaged in Mexico and Latin America and previously in Eastern & Southern Africa. His primary research and teaching experiences are in participatory cartography of rural and urban local spatial knowledge with emphases on participatory spatial planning, territoriality, community initiatives, risks and vulnerability, and environmental management.

Andrew Boni Noguez: Associate professor, División de Ingenierías, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Andrew Boni Noguez is a geographer from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research has mainly focused on the geography of conflicts between communities and extractive industries and other aspects of mining in Mexico, such as mineral extraction in natural protected areas and the social implications of open pit mining. He teaches in the Geography and Geomatic Engineering programs.

Brian M. Napoletano: Assistant researcher, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico. Brian M. Napoletano studied biogeography at Michigan State University and Purdue University, but has since shifted his focus to the geographical dimensions of the metabolic rift, including alienation and territorial dispossession associated with capitalist urbanisation, conservation, resource extraction and other major land-change processes in the Global South. He has recently become interested in the possibilities of autogestion and successful co-revolutionary mobilisation by the world and environmental proletariat to forge a hegemonic alternative to capital's alienated mode of social-metabolic control.

Tyanif Rico-Rodríguez: Ph.D. candidate in Geography, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Morelia, Mexico. Tyanif Rico-Rodríguez is a sociologist with Masters' degrees in Social Sciences and Agrarian Studies. Her research interests are in territorial conflicts, place-based strategies for territorial development and environmental governance. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography and her current project explores governance scenarios on local knowledge based on territorial relations of care among human and non-humans in the coffee landscapes in Nariño, Colombia.

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Michael K. McCall;

Brian Napoletano;

Tyanif Rico;

Andrew Boni

UNAM,

Univ. Guanajuato

Territory is simultaneously slippery and sticky - but it has a grounding in Latin America

Introduction & Guide to the Book

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Peter H. Herlihy; Taylor Tappan;

M.L. Fahrenbruch

University of Kansas

Recognizing Indigenous Territorial Jurisdictions in Central America;

Overview indigenous territory status in Central America

Territorial jurisdictions, & governance,

3

Daniela López; Pedro Urquijo;

Gerardo Bocco

UNAM - UDIR and CIGA

Memory and Roots in La Niña, a Small Rural Town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. A Cultural Geographical Analysis.

Views of territory in small urban settlement. Perception, identity, memory

4

Adrián Ortega-Iturriaga;

Tzitzi Sharhí Delgado;

UNAM

UMSNH Asymmetric Landscapes: Power as a set of chisels shaping Rural Mexico.

Rural mestizo community. NRM. Landscapes, Local spatial knowledge, perceptions. Power, social relations.

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Carlos Dobler-Morales; Rinku Roy Chowdhury;

Birgit Schmook

Clark University

Between Subsidies and Parks: Smallholder Farming Responses to Agrarian and Conservation Policy in Calakmul, Mexico. Rural mestizo community, Smallholder agric. change. Public policy.

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Nora Sylvander

Ohio State University

"They don't care about the environment:" Environmental Conservation discourses and spatial legitimacy in Nicaragua's Bosawas Biosphere Reserve,

Conflicts conservation areas & Rural indigenous & mestizo communities 7

José Manuel Mojica Vélez;

Sara Barrasa

UNAM

Territory and Landscape Configuration of the Coastal Wetlands of Chiapas: La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

Territory and power.

Landscapes?

Conflicts of conservation areas & rural communities.

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Connie Paola López Gómez; Lina María Hurtado-Gómez;

Clara Inés Villegas-Palacio;

Bertha Martín-López UNAL Colombia.

Federal University Fluminense.

Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg

Beyond Gender Perceptions: ethnicity, complementarity and intersectionality applied to territorialities: Perceptions, territorial planning and ecosystem services in a Colombian case study.

Feminist geography visions of Territory & Territorialisation.

Territorial planning. Gender & intersectionality.

Ecosystem services interpretation in a landscape / territory

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John Kelly

University of Wisconsin- La Crosse

Village-scale Territorialities in Eastern Campeche state, Mexico.

Alternative Territories, claims to Territory.

Indigenous-mestizo-settler struggles. Forest frontier 10

David Diaz Baiges;

Ana Sofía Solano Acuña

IDESPO,

Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA)

De-indianize and Build a Nation, the case of the Kunas and the Guaymí of Panama, in late 19th and first half 20th Century.

Indigenous peoples

Forest frontier

Concepts of territory

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Maria Elisa Tosi Roquette;

Michael McCall

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

UNAM

Participatory Mapping of Resistance to Territorial Appropriation and De-Territorialisation - Chapada do Á and its Struggles against a Mega Steel Mill Project in Espírito Santo, Brasil. Indigenous community contest external developments. Participatory mapping

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Andrew Boni Noguez;

M.K. McCall

Universidad de Guanajuato

UNAM

Mapping Territories, disputing landscapes: Maps and the Wirikuta/Catorce land conflict.

Mining, Indigenous territory. Territorial Conflicts in 3D.

Maps as social constructs, maps as Power.

13 Tamara Ortega Uribe

Universidad de Valparaíso

Territorial Variations in Socio-environmental Conflicts from Mining Extraction in Chile. State Response and Territorial Configuration in Three Emblematic Cases. Mining

Local communities

Environmental damage

Policies & strategies

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Nataly Alexandra Diaz Cruz

UNAL Colombia

The Territorialisation of the Residual Spaces of Bogotá. An analysis of the implications of Lefebvre's Spatial Triad. Urban / peri-urban Territories, creation & representation of subversive spaces / Territories.

Conceptual, theoretical

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Brian M. Napoletano

UNAM

Geographic Rift in the Urbanization of Morelia's Periphery Peri-urban. Territorial Change. Structurali…