Territorialising Space in Latin America

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.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Recognizing Indigenous Territorial Jurisdictions in Central America.- Chapter 3. Memory and Roots in La Niña, a Small Rural Town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.- Chapter 4. Asymmetric Landscapes.- Chapter 5. Smallholder Farming Responses to Agrarian and Conservation Policy in Calakmul, Mexico.- Chapter 6. Environmental Conservation discourses and spatial legitimacy in Nicaragua’s Bosawas Biosphere Reserve.- Chapter 7. Territory and Landscape Configuration of the Coastal Wetlands of Chiapas.- Chapter 8. Beyond Gender Perceptions: ethnicity, complementarity and intersectionality applied to territorialities. - Chapter 9. Village-scale Territorialities in Eastern Campeche state, Mexico.- Chapter 10. De-Indianize and Build a Nation, the case of the Kunas and the Guaymí of Panama.- Chapter 11. Participatory Mapping of Resistance to Territorial Appropriation and De-Territorialisation.- Chapter 12. Mapping Territories, disputing landscapes.- Chapter 13. Territorial Variations in Socio-environmental Conflicts from Mining Extraction in Chile.- Chapter 14. The Territorialisation of the Residual Spaces of Bogotá.- Chapter 15. Geographic Rift in the Urbanization of Morelia's Periphery.- Chapter 16. Land and Water Grabbing in the Oases of the Province of Mendoza (Argentina).- Chapter 17. Territorialization Processes of the transnational mining company Grupo México.- Chapter 18. Conclusions, Learnings, Challenges.