Tillyian process without a Tillyian effect: criminalised economies and state-building in the Colombian conflict

Justicia transformativa y conflicto agrario. Elementos para un debate necesario

“…En el contexto de la minería, ampliamente se ha criticado que el extractivismo gubernamental ha priorizado la inversión extranjera directa, la extracción minera a gran escala y el capital corporativo (Vélez-Torres, 2014). De hecho, las políticas mineras desde 2001, y sobre todo aquellas enfocadas en la formalización y titulación, han terminado por negar, marginar y criminalizar a las comunidades que dependen de los recursos asociados a la tierra (Gutiérrez y Ciro, 2022). Esta desigualdad ha convertido la formalización en un privilegio para la minería corporativa a gran escala, mientras que por la misma ruta jurídica se condena a la ilegalidad a los/as mineros de subsistencia.…”

The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures

“…Second, Latin America's early incorporation into the capitalist world economy through colonialism involved constructing the infrastructures required to produce and export minerals, fuels, and agriculture (Galeano, 1973(Galeano, /1997). These historical infrastructures, which underpinned early capitalist development in Europe, continue to dissect and configure Latin American societies, while more recent infrastructures have deepened the insertion of Latin American countries into global production and distribution networks, including those for illicit commodities, like cocaine (Grisaffi, 2019;Gutiérrez and Ciro, 2022). Dependency on the export of primary goods, which remains the defining macro feature of most Latin American economies, imbues the region's infrastructure with greater uncertainty and instability as public and private investment are closely linked to volatile cycles in world commodity markets (Acosta, 2009;Svampa, 2012).…”