Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a909097
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a909100
Alessandro Dozena
Cities are, by their essence, places of movement. Even if in some cases this is not visually perceptible, they pulsate with the desire for change, typically expressed by the impetus of youth. In the case of Brazil, young people have been shaking up the official state structures and the musical scenes in cities of different regions for some time. As an important element of convergence, we have the movement of these young people
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a909096
Dave McLaughlin
countryside was shattered twice—first by the murder of three-year old Francis Kent; second by Inspector Jonathan Whicher’s correct identification of middle-class Constance Kent as her half-brother’s murderer. This brutal episode, in which the local bourgeoisie refused to accept that one of their own could be a murderer, arguably set a cultural tone in English policing for the rest of the nineteenth century—if not in fact, then certainly in fiction. In contemporary cultural representations of crime and policing—including the most famous literary sleuths of the so-called Golden Era, such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and even Philip Marlowe—the official police are invariably a last port of call, while the middle classes remain suspicious of detectives like the real-life Inspector Whicher and look after their own. In Latin American Detectives Against Power, Fabricio Tocco agrees that detective fiction has its roots in these Anglo-AmeriReferences Bens, J. (2020). The Indigenous paradox: Rights, sovereignty, and culture in the Americas. University of Pennsylvania Press.
三岁的弗朗西斯-肯特（Francis Kent）被谋杀，乔纳森-威彻（Jonathan Whicher）探长正确指认中产阶级康斯坦丝-肯特（Constance Kent）是杀害她同父异母兄弟的凶手，这两件事两次打破了英国乡村的平静。在这一残酷的事件中，当地的资产阶级拒绝接受自己人可能是凶手的事实，这可以说为 19 世纪余下的英国警务工作定下了文化基调--即使不是在事实上，也肯定是在小说中。在当代关于犯罪和警察的文化表述中--包括所谓黄金时代最著名的文学侦探，如夏洛克-福尔摩斯、赫尔克里-波洛，甚至菲利普-马洛--官方警察总是最后的避难所，而中产阶级则对像现实中的惠舍探长这样的侦探保持怀疑，并照顾他们自己的人。法布里西奥-托科（Fabricio Tocco）在《拉丁美洲反权力侦探》（Latin American Detectives Against Power）一书中也认为，侦探小说源于这些英美文学。The Indigenous paradox: Rights, sovereignty, and culture in the Americas.宾夕法尼亚大学出版社。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a909085
Andrew Hilburn, Alison Hadley
abstract:Land inequality is often related to poverty, economic underdevelopment, and the persistence of (neo)extractivist economies in Latin America. This issue is often examined in rural contexts. This study examines land inequality in Laredo, Texas, a city of more than 250,000 residents on the U.S.-Mexico border. Using cadastral records and geospatial inquiry to construct Gini indices for infill and city-limit-adjacent land, the analysis empirically tests land inequality using criteria developed by previous research. Using both acreage and market value, results point to Gini indices approaching 1, indicating extreme land concentration for developable land in and adjacent to the city of Laredo. Here, land inequality is interpreted through the lens of resource geographies in order to explain its persistence. In urban contexts, land serves as a real estate commodity that provides the spatial setting for commerce, industry, and transportation. We argue that Laredo's potential elite capture of the land resource has persisted, while the extractivist land resource definition has changed over time. Differential tax assessment, mineral wealth, historical platting, and burgeoning resource markets work to maintain large landholdings in south Texas. This study frames land inequality as resource inequality and as a legacy of the colonial cadaster and extractivist regimes. Additionally, it places this issue in an urban and Global North context.resumen:La desigualdad en la tenencia de la tierra a menudo se relaciona con la persistencia de la pobreza, el subdesarrollo económico y las economías (neo)extractivistas en América Latina. Estos análisis, generalmente, se examinan en contextos rurales. El presente estudio investiga la existencia de la desigualdad en la tenencia de tierras en Laredo, Texas, una ciudad fronteriza de más de 250.000 habitantes. A partir de datos catastrales y análisis geoespacial para construir índices Gini para terrenos adentro y adyacentes a los límites de la ciudad, el análisis evalúa, empíricamente, la desigualdad en la tenencia de tierras utilizando criterios desarrollados por otros estudios. Analizando la superficie tanto como su valor comercial, los resultados apuntan a índices Gini que se aproximan a 1, lo que indica una concentración extrema de terrenos aptos para el desarrollo en la ciudad de Laredo y sus alrededores. Aquí, la desigualdad en la tenencia de tierra se interpreta a través del lente de la geografía de los recursos para explicar su persistencia. En contextos urbanos, la tierra sirve como un bien inmobiliario que proporciona el entorno espacial para el comercio, la industria y el transporte. Declaramos que la potencial captura de la tierra por parte de la élite laredense ha persistido, mientras que la definición del recurso de tierra para la extracción ha cambiado con el tiempo. El rol de impuestos diferenciales, la riqueza petrolera y la planificación colonial sirven para mantener grandes propiedades en Laredo y sus
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a909094
Jorge Zapata
than enough material in the commission’s U.S. archive, other Mexican and U.S. government sources, news accounts, personal papers and letters, and memoirs. Rath even unearths the lyrics of various corridos, or folk ballads, that subverted and satirized the aftosa campaign. By the end of the book, Rath acknowledges the challenge of making sense of a story with such “bizarre” and “weird” notes (p. 219). Eager to reject master narratives, Rath’s story centers contingency over a coherent plot— which is fine, considering this is history, not a movie (although it would also make for a terrific film). Nevertheless, The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers offers many new and convincing insights. Popular protests against the aftosa campaign were at once deeply rooted in Mexican political conditions, as “localized, cross-class movements that aimed to resist intrusive, illegitimate interference from the central government” (p. 125), while also typifying contemporary “struggles over rural modernization around the world” (p. 126). The aftosa crisis demonstrated that the PRI’s corporatist grip on Mexican society was far from complete, as CMAEFA relied much more on “localized arrangements” with “caciques, cattlemen, communities, governors, generals, teachers, and, not least, priests,” to minimize conflict and carry out its work (p. 156). And rather than being steamrolled by the hegemony of U.S. techno-scientific modernization schemes, Mexican actors produced their own version of culturally acceptable modernity through dispute, negotiation, and engagement with international expertise.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a909087
Marcelo Crespo, Alexander Follmann, Carsten Butsch, Peter Dannenberg
abstract:International retirement migration (IRM) is known to be an important factor for regional economic development in some low-and middle-income countries. However, IRM's effects on land prices and real estate markets, especially housing, are controversial. Using the case study of the Andean city of Cotacachi, Ecuador, this paper discusses the economic and socio-spatial effects of IRM-related construction of comparatively high-priced retirement homes on indigenous communities' access to land and housing prices in the urban area. Based on the analysis and collection of quantitative and qualitative data, the paper identifies that IRM-related foreign investments result in increased prices of (agricultural) land and urban housing. This especially affects indigenous communities as they are historically marginalized in access to land. To understand the IRM-related effects, we contextualize and discuss these in light of the historical control of land by landowning élites. Our data show that recent IRM-oriented real estate development—paired with highly uneven postcolonial distribution of land—has unequal socio-spatial effects: land-rich élites benefit from selling land to both local and foreign investors, while landless and land-poor indigenous communities face increasing difficulty in accessing land for agriculture.resumen:La migración internacional de jubilados (MIJ) es conocida como un factor importante para el desarrollo económico regional en algunos países. Sin embargo, sus efectos sobre los precios del suelo y los mercados inmobiliarios son controversiales. A partir de un estudio en la ciudad de Cotacachi, Ecuador, este artículo analiza los efectos económicos y socio-espaciales de la construcción de viviendas de alto valor para jubilados extranjeros, en relación con el acceso a la tierra en las comunidades indígenas y el precio de la vivienda. El artículo identifica que las inversiones extranjeras relacionadas con la MIJ provocan un aumento en los precios de la tierra y la vivienda urbana. Esto, a su vez, afecta especialmente a las comunidades indígenas. Con el fin de entender los efectos relacionados con la MIJ, discutimos los mismos, a la luz del control histórico de la tierra por parte de las élites terratenientes. Nuestros datos reflejan que el desarrollo inmobiliario relacionado con la MIJ junto con la distribución postcolonial de la tierra tiene efectos socio-espaciales desiguales: las grandes élites terratenientes se benefician de la venta de tierras, mientras que las comunidades indígenas (sin) o pobres en tierras enfrentan grandes dificultades para continuar con la agricultura.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a909101
Márcia Siqueira de Carvalho
be transformed into different kinds of places when they are appropriated for performance, as in the case of punk/hardcore bands. When this happens, the streets are “punkerized” by performances, subversions, behaviors, musicality, and ways of being in space. This transforms the functional territories of the streets into places—and here the arts in cities emerge as power, as escape valves, as everyday playfulness in and with the city. For people from the peripheries of Brazilian cities, who live in quebradas or favelas, it is very common for the street to be the extension of the house, not least because the houses are small spaces, usually with many inhabitants. In other words, life takes place at home and on the street. Going into the streets also becomes a matter of survival, as with the jobs of many young punk/hardcore fans who work making deliveries. The book sheds light on the different musical scenes that are part of contemporary Brazilian reality, pointing out challenges and contradictions that have yet to be overcome. This understanding of other dimensions goes beyond tourism and heritage in the four cities in this study. The author’s thesis serves as ammunition for the fight against injustice in cities, which is characterized by multiple disputes, and that reverberates in the unequal conditions of movement. Urbanities without disputes are lifeless urbanities. And the book demonstrates that there are disputes all the time, and that the manifestations of these disputes are a revealing part of our everyday experience.
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Si uno centra la atención en los medios de comunicación globalizados, podría asumir que los crímenes contra la humanidad ya no constituyen una crisis novedosa; se han vuelto rutinarios, sobre todo en cuestiones de emergencias sanitarias en áreas donde habitan las poblaciones afrodescendientes de las Américas. Es como si frente a las prácticas genocidas antinegras ahora se responda: “¿Qué más hay de nuevo?” (Marshall, 2020).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a909088
R. E. N. Santos
resumo:O objetivo deste texto é debater a produção cartográfica no contexto da pandemia da COVID-19 no Brasil. São analisadas cartografias governamentais, de grupos de pesquisa e de grupos ativistas de base. As análises mostram que a cartografia foi um instrumento mobilizado com diversas funções, tais como informar, comunicar, orientar, analisar, mobilizar sujeitos e solidariedades. Entretanto, essa produção deve ser vista dentro de jogos e disputas de poder. Disputas de narrativas sobre a pandemia, sobre as respostas e reações a ela, assim como os próprios instrumentos de produção cartográfica utilizados, são aspectos mostrados como dimensões destas relações de poder.abstract:The aim of this paper is to explore the development of cartography during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. It analyzes the maps produced by government agencies, research groups and grassroots activist organizations. The analysis demonstrates that cartography became an instrument mobilized for different purposes: to inform, to communicate, to guide, to analyze, and to mobilize subjects and solidarity. However, these different forms of cartography should also be viewed within a context of power relations and struggles. Contested narratives regarding the pandemic and the responses to it, as well as the tools of cartography employed, are revealed as dimensions of these power relations.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/lag.2023.a909093
Eric D. Carter
and not referring to something deeper that also entails a form of social appropriation of space intertwined with power relations. This contrasts with the other chapters of the book, which offer a conceptual discussion of territory, and therefore, inform the reader about the centrality of territory in interpreting and understanding the case study they present. Another weakness of the book is the maps presented in the different sections. For a book whose authors are mostly, if not all, geographers, with a few exceptions many of the maps included in the chapters do not deliver because of their poor graphic quality; in some cases they are practically illegible. Likewise, there are representations that could not be called maps, as they do not have the required elements to be included in that category. These aspects might seem minor technicalities and might go unnoticed by an inexperienced reader, but to an audience trained in geography, they are fundamental points. Overall, Territorialising Space in Latin
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