Geography: Western South America (2021)

2016. Geography: Western South America, pp. 157-169 in Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 71: Social Sciences, edited by Tracy North and Katherine D. McCann. Austin: University of Texas Press.

2002

In this course students will gain a broad knowledge of the South American region, its lands, peoples, and current socio-political, economic, and environmental issues. It will provide the basis for understanding current events. Lectures will follow a historical-geographical perspective. Combining textbook readings, journal articles, videos, slides, and discussions, students gain an appreciation of regional cultural diversity, an understanding of the dynamics of South American regional integration, and the role of South America in the world. This is an exciting and stimulating course that will broaden your knowledge and understanding of your individual role in the world and of relationships between different societies and countries in the region. We will sample in greater detail two distinctive ecological subregions as greater concentration will be given to the Andean region of Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and northwestern Argentina, and also to the tropical Amazon Basin.

Journal of Latin American Geography

Journal of Latin American Geography, 2019

Table of Contents: Unsettling territory: Indigenous mobilizations, the territorial turn, and the limits of land rights in the Paraguay-Brazil borderlands (Joel E. Correia) Geographic Rift in the Urban Periphery, and Its Concrete Manifestations in Morelia, Mexico (Brian M. Napoletano, Jaime Paneque-Gálvez, Yadira Méndez-Lemus, & Antonio Vieyra) Indigenous Survival and Settler Colonial Dispossession on the Mexican Frontier: The Case of Cedagĭ Wahia and Wo’oson O’odham Indigenous Communities (Blake Gentry, Geofrey Alan Boyce, Jose M. Garcia, & Samuel N. Chambers) La frontera en el septentrión del Obispado de Michoacán, Nueva España, 1536–1650 (América Alejandra Navarro López & Pedro Sergio Urquijo Torres) Can the Use of a Specific Species Influence Habitat Conservation? Case Study of the Ethnobotany of the Palm Iriartea Deltoidea and Conservation in Northwestern Ecuador (Maria Fadiman) La agricultura en terrazas en la adaptación a la variabilidad climática en la Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, México (Gerardo Bocco, Berenice Solís Castillo, Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez, & Adrián Ortega-Iturriaga) In Good Faith: Land Grabbing, Legal Dispossession, and Land Restitution in Colombia (Max Counter) Trump’s Border Militarization and the Limits to Capital (Jeremy Slack) Bolsonaro and the Inequalities of Geographical Development in Brazil (Nelson Rojas de Carvalho & Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior) The Embers of Radical Ecology and Revolutionary Ideology in Nicaragua’s Protests (Michael A. Petriello & Audrey J. Joslin) Truncated Transnationalism, the Tenuousness of Temporary Protected Status, and Trump (Ines Miyares, Richard Wright, Alison Mountz, & Adrian Bailey)

Journal of Latin American Geography, 2020

To commemorate CLAG’s half century of engagement in Latin America, this special issue presents a curated set of twenty essays reflecting the depth and breadth of Latin American geography, past, present, and future. This special anniversary issue also features photographs from over 50 years of fieldwork in Latin America in the ad hoc section “Photographs from the Field: Fifty Years of Fieldwork in Latin America.” Finally, with this issue we launch JLAG em Tradução / JLAG en Traducción, a new section of the journal that will feature translations of articles—published together with the original article—have the potential to make broad and long-lasting contributions to theoretical, methodological, and topical debates in Latin American geography, but which may not otherwise achieve the readership they deserve.

Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2015

2019

Journal of Latin American Geography, 2019

Journal of Latin American Geography, 2019

This special issue centers on modern-colonial geographies in Latin America, and was co-organized and co-edited by Mara Duer and Simone Vegliò. The topical and geographical focuses presented in this issue are diverse, ranging from Argentinian landfills to the emotional geographies of natural resource extraction, from the historical and cultural legacy of colonial-era mining in modern-day UNESCO World Heritage Sites to the landscapes of feminicide and memorialization in Juarez, Mexico. Common across all contributions to this special issue is a focus on decolonial literatures emerging across Latin America, scholarship whose impact increasingly resonates within geographical scholarship on/in/of Latin America. Importantly, this special issue reflects JLAG’s editorial commitment to expanding the geographical range of authors that the journal publishes, to broadening the journal’s notion of Latin America as a region, and to more deeply and systematically engaging with geographic scholarship originating in Latin America. This issue also features a JLAG Perspectives forum on activist scholarship in Latin America. This forum is prompted by the ongoing and escalating militarization on the Mexico-U.S. border and the criminalization of humanitarian work along the same border, the recent murders of several prominent activists in Latin America, and JLAG’s evolving editorial position that these and other issues present an imperative for critically engaged scholarship (see JLAG vol. 18, no. 2, p. 5). The goal of this Perspectives forum is to feature the voices of activist-scholars working in the hemisphere as they explore the theoretical, methodological, and ethical dimensions of activist scholarship, and/or reflect on projects that they’re currently involved in. Contributions from Kate Swanson, Scott Warren, and Geoff Boyce focus on the Mexico-U.S. border, while the focus of Veronica Gago and Liz Mason-Dees centers on the feminist movement in Argentina, Manuel Bayón and Sofia Zaragocin on the work of the Colectivo de Geografía Crítica de Ecuador, and Thelma Vélez on identity, scholarship, and positionality in post-Maria Puerto Rico.

ACTA SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE, 2019

This article addresses geological, geographical, anthropological and historical issues concerning South America. Remnant of the western part of the old supercontinent Gondwana, with an area of more than 17,000,000 square kilometres and home to almost half a billion people, South America is the fifth most populous continent (after Asia, Africa, Europe and North America) and ranks fourth (after Asia, Africa and North America) in terms of size. Refined civilizations did exist in ancient South America, notably in the Andean region. Long before Columbus’ time, America seems to have been foreseen both in Literature and Philosophy.