This article argues that the entanglements of a growing global demand for construction
material and neoliberal resource governance result in an incremental and piecemeal form of …

Sand is one of the most extracted materials in the world and a fundamental input for the
construction sector. Currently, extraction rates exceed the natural rates of renewal locally …

As gold prices rose between 2002 and 2012, Afro-descendant gold miners confronted illegal
outsider-owned gold mines on their land in Colombia's northwest Chocó department. This …

In the period 2000-12, high prices on the world market and increasing demand for raw
materials, accompanied by insecurity on the financial markets, led to a worldwide resource …

Analysing the sugarcane landscape in the flat valley of the Cauca River (Colombia) reveals
that agricultural industrialization in the region required the concentration of land use by …

We hypothesize that biocultural landscapes configured by indigenous, peasant, and afro
traditional agricultural systems, significantly contribute to the ecological functionality of the …

This paper explores how Black women entrepreneurs in Cali, Colombia confront racism and
sexism, as they engage in the expanding neoliberal beauty market. We argue that anti-racist …

Ethnic recognition and collective titling have since the second half of the 20th century been
promoted as ways of compensating for historical injustices and countering the destructive …

Maps produced during the saga of European 'discovery'were shown to erase local forms of
spatial knowledge of colonised populations to serve domination interests. This paper …

Across the world, economic interests and state-making interventions have converged in
dispossessing rural and urban dwellers. Drawing on literature on rural transformation …