Imagining Plural Territories of Life: A Feminist Reading of Resistance in the Socio-Territorial Movements in Ecuador

Vela-Almeida, Diana; Zaragocín, Sofia; Bayón, Manuel; Arrazola, Íñigo; Mason-Deese, Liz

doi:10.1353/lag.2020.0041

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“…By extension, a focus on social difference in subject formation enables us to expose how asymmetrical power relations are at play in processes of de- and reterritorialization at multiple scales. Such a focus contributes to an emerging debate regarding dominance, subordination, and the empowering potential in processes of territorialization (see, e.g., Ulloa, 2016; Vela-Almeida et al, 2020).…”

Section: Towards a Non-essentialist Politics Of Space And Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization

Schwarz,

Streule

2024

Progress in Human Geography

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Political subjectivity and territorialization often appear disconnected in recent debates. We propose a fresh approach based on Latin American scholarship to understand subjects and territories as relational: Subjects are (de)stabilized in processes of territorialization, while territories are (de)stabilized in processes of subject formation. We introduce the concept of territorial subjectivities and use examples from the literature to show how these emerge in Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Dresden. Placing an analytical focus on becoming rather than being, the contingency of territorial subjectivities is key to this novel conceptual link that supports a differentiated reading of socio-territorial struggles in diverse geographical contexts.

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Section: Towards a Non-essentialist Politics Of Space And Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization

Schwarz,

Streule

2024

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Finally, global South scholars working in community-rights movements have underscored the importance of territory as a multiscalar object contested and redefined by commons movements to organize and mobilize against neocolonial extractivism and dispossession, while developing alternatives that are both "rooted" in a given place and intersectional 9 (158,159,237,238).…”

Section: Cross-scalar Collectives and Dynamicsmentioning

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Commons Movements: Old and New Trends in Rural and Urban Contexts

Villamayor-Tomás

García-López

2021

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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Over the past few years, studies in political ecology and environmental justice have been increasingly connecting the commons and social movements empirically, giving shape to a new, distinctive body of research on commons movements. In our review, we first organize and synthesize empirical lessons from this body of literature. We then highlight recent theoretical efforts made by scholars to both bridge and transcend the gap between the theory of the commons and social movement theory. As we illustrate, movements can help create and strengthen commons institutions and discourses, as well as rescale them horizontally and vertically. This is particularly evident in the context of rural community-rights movements in the global South, as well as in new water and food commons movements and community-energy movements in both the global South and North. Commons institutions, in turn, can serve as the basis of social mobilization and become a key frame for social movements, as shown in the context of local environmental justice and livelihoods conflicts and anti-privatization struggles. Tensions and contradictions of commons-movement dynamics also exist and reflect trade-offs between diversity versus uniformization and organizational closure versus expansion of discourses and practices. Theoretically, there is an opportunity to cross boundaries from the theory of the commons to social movement theory and vice versa, e.g., by highlighting the role of political opportunities and framing, and biophysical factors and polycentricity, respectively. More importantly, a new commons movements theory is emerging focusing on cross-scalar organizations, the virtuous cycles between commons projects and mobilization, and the processes of commons-making. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 46 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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“…2 In the new social movements literature, the transnational aspect has focused on the capacity of these groups to articulate solidarity networks worldwide (Radcliffe 2007;A. Andrews 2011;Paschel 2018;Vela-Almeida et al 2020). This case study, however, reveals the consolidation of palenques outside Colombian boundaries to expand a maroon way of life wherever they go, finding economic means to protect San Basilio de Palenque's territory.…”

Section: Entangled Palenquesmentioning

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Maroon Socioterritorial Movements

Guillen

2021

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Maroon communities, or communities of descendants of fugitives from slavery, have been long-lasting examples of social movements pursuing political goals through the production and mobilization of space. They have been largely forgotten in academic analyses, however, which, in Latin America, are primarily focused on peasants and indigenous movements. Therefore, drawing on socioterritorial movements readings and maroon studies, this article analyzes how maroon-descendant communities have produced territory in both urban and rural spaces-including areas of forced displacement-locally and transnationally, to survive hegemonies deeply rooted in the legacy of slavery and to achieve political aims. These communities unsettle binary categories of rural and urban socioterritorial movements and monolithic visions of antistate struggle. This transterritorial, rural-urban appropriation of spaces resisting different powers follows the past logic of marronage to achieve freedom and security, re-creating in present times the political vision of historical maroon leaders regarding the construction of a grand Palenque in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.

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Imagining Plural Territories of Life: A Feminist Reading of Resistance in the Socio-Territorial Movements in Ecuador

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Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization

Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization

Commons Movements: Old and New Trends in Rural and Urban Contexts

Maroon Socioterritorial Movements

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