Polar bears, cactus, and natives: race, agrarian reform, and environmental determinism in Latin America (1920–1950)

Marchesi, Greta

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2014.06.001

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“…There has been an emphasis in some of this work on support from whites/settlers for indigenous peoples in the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand/Aotearoa, considering how to negotiate relationships which “are fraught with power asymmetries” (Sundberg, , p. 114). Historical geography can make an important contribution here in understanding the roots of these asymmetries and the mobilisation of indigeneity as an anti‐colonial category (Marchesi, ). Negrín (, p. 4), for instance, has argued that non‐indigenous environmental activists seeking to construct solidarities with indigenous people are likely to be more successful if they are “attentive to the ways in which historically sedimented understandings of race are reactivated.” Engaging with Habermas' conception of solidarity as “standing in for one another,” Negrín argues that understanding the “historical legacies behind this standing, becomes essential for enabling more symmetrical acts of solidarity across racial, ethnic and spatial differences” (p. 17).…”

Section: Race and Colonialismmentioning

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Historicising geographies of solidarity

Kelliher

2018

Geography Compass

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This article evaluates two of the most productive recent areas of research in the historical geographies of solidarity: first, work relating to class and the labour movement; and second, debates clustered around race and colonialism. The two are, of course, not entirely distinct, and there has been much useful thinking at their intersections. I suggest that questions of mobility have been crucial in thinking about the formation of diverse solidarities across geographical and social boundaries. The article looks at how relationships can both be developed across differences of gender, race, and sexuality and how solidarities can be used to entrench forms of oppression and inequities of power. Thinking about this issue through the concept of intersectionality, I argue, would be a useful way of engaging with such questions. I suggest three areas which could be developed further. First, there is potential for a greater engagement with theoretical debates around the nature of solidarity itself. Second, historical geographers could pay more attention to the role of memory and “usable pasts.” Finally, I argue that more ambitious historical narratives, framed within wider social processes, would allow us to make broader arguments about how solidarity develops over time.

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Section: Race and Colonialismmentioning

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Historicising geographies of solidarity

Kelliher

2018

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“…As the twentieth century progressed, Colombian politicians, intellectuals, and social activists refined and developed these notions of nationally specific race and productive labor within a global society. While some of these reflected long-held biases against native peoples, others embraced a new notion of ''indigenous'' that contrasted imperialist exploitation with local mixtures of peoples and lands (see Marchesi, 2014).…”

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The blood of heroes: Nationalist bodies, National soils, and the scientific conservation of the Federation of Colombian Coffee-Growers (1927–1946)

Marchesi

2015

Environ Plan A

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This paper explores the scientific research and management programs of Colombia's Federation of Colombian Coffee-Growers (FEDECAFE) as part of a campaign to ensure the long-term viability of the nation's largest and most prominent export crop in the 1930s and early 1940s. Their work served a constituency of largely peasant small-holders in a period of increased erosion and declining coffee yields. Drawing on the organization's internal records and popular publications, this research shows how new ideas about human and ecological natures were an essential component of FedeCafé hegemony, conceptually embedding the vitality of Colombian nationhood and citizenship in coffee country's ecological systems. Further, this conceptual reembedding of society in ecological processes was itself the result of concerted challenges to new forms of land and labor exploitation that accompanied the global capitalist commodity booms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This earth that you cultivate, to which you are bound by need and by love -like an infant at its mother's breast -is tired; it is exhausted; it is dying in your hands, victim of an unrelenting enemy called erosion. And you aren't alone in depending on this land; we all depend on it. The soil is the most precious material resource of the nation, and you, amigo campesino, are its steward and guardian. The subsistence of you and your family depends on the fertility of the soil you cultivate, as does the prosperity of your country and the security of the nation.

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Environmental Determinism: What Was It?

Meyer¹,

Guss²

2017

Neo-Environmental Determinism

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Polar bears, cactus, and natives: race, agrarian reform, and environmental determinism in Latin America (1920–1950)

Cited by 14 publications

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Historicising geographies of solidarity

Historicising geographies of solidarity

The blood of heroes: Nationalist bodies, National soils, and the scientific conservation of the Federation of Colombian Coffee-Growers (1927–1946)

Environmental Determinism: What Was It?

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