G Verschoor
Biographic Data
| ID | 133982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Verschoor |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Verschoor |
| SIGNATURE | VERSCHOOR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9141-8709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding forest transitions and lock-ins in Latin American agro-forest frontiers
The agro-forest frontier is the dynamic border between agricultural and forested lands. Drawing on results from an interdisciplinary research programme, we synthesise and compare social-ecological dynamics in three Latin American agro-forest frontiers: Marqués de Comillas and La Sepultura in Mexico, and Zona da Mata in Brazil. Each includes extensive livestock grazing, rain-fed agriculture, secondary vegetation, and state-protected areas. Forest …
Públicos duraderos y transitorios. Historia lineal y tiempos mareales en San Blas, Nayarit, México
En este artículo narramos las trayectorias históricas que dan lugar a diversos públicos en torno a tres conflictos por las zonas marinas y por la zona costera en tres diferentes escenarios de San Blas, Nayarit. Sostenemos que el surgimiento de múltiples públicos interpela el interés “común” de las políticas públicas de desarrollo. En contraste con una mirada lineal de la historia, estos tres conflictos contemporáneos se comunican con un pasado “l…
Ontological politics in competing tourismscapes
This article examines a conflict over land on Las Islitas beach in San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico, between the owners of small beachfront eateries or enramadas and an Indigenous communal agrarian organization. We interpret this conflict as being not only a struggle over land but also as a struggle between the enactment of different tourismscapes and the corresponding ontological premises upon which these are based. To build our argument, we explore th…
From managing transitions towards building movements of affect
Policy and scholarly efforts to foster sustainable transformations focus on the contribution of practices and institutions; thus far, however, the affects that encourage and enable people to mobilise for and establish these transformative practices and institutions have received less attention. Drawing on the example of the agroecology movement in Brazil, this article examines how affects foster the creation of new farming, community and market r…
Hacia una gobernanza adaptativa centrada en los grupos domésticos rurales que habitan las Áreas Naturales Protegidas. El caso de La Sepultura, Chiapas, México
Analizamos el efecto que el régimen socioambiental predominante en un Área Natural Protegida tiene sobre la gobernanza y sobre la reproducción económica de los grupos domésticos rurales de dos ejidos en la Reserva de la Biósfera La Sepultura (REBISE), Chiapas. Desarrollamos una investigación transdisciplinaria mediante el esquema conceptual de los Sistemas Territoriales Campesinos (SITCA). Esta incluyó talleres familiares sobre modos de vida, jue…
Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil
Most young people engaged in agroecology in Zona da Mata Mineira, Brazil, participate in popular education. Popular education is a Latin-American concept that entails transformative learning, among others. Despite the large body of literature on popular education, there is little knowledge about how it supports reflection, enhances situated abilities, and affects relationships between young farmers and nature. This article looks at popular educat…
Between institutional reform and building popular movements
Agroecology is increasingly seen to contain solutions that can be used for wider societal transformation. While debates have mainly focused on reformist versus revolutionary strategies, less attention has been paid to how such strategies connect to peasant demands and how they can be combined for agroecological transformation. In this article we study transformation by the agroecology movement in Brazil through the theoretical lens of political a…
Agroecological peasant territories
We explore peasant territories as an emancipatory alternative in the context of authoritarian populism and neo-liberalism by focusing on two agroecological peasant territories in Brazil. We argue that territories harbour socio-ecological, cultural-political and politico-institutional bases that engender different forms of resistance and existence. Peasant territories build and defend emancipatory alternatives by creating self-governed knowledge a…
The pebble in the shoe
Re-imagining environmental governance
This article describes and analyses an encounter in the Colombian Amazon between Indigenous practices and arrangements to manage their environment and the conservation policies of the State. Indigenous peoples understand their world as populated by powerful human and nonhuman beings; for them, the moral duty of achieving happiness and abundance for all implies sustaining reciprocal and respectful relations with these beings (including the State).…
Amphibious Encounters
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in Indonesia, this article describes a conservation outreach project that attempts to educate and convert local people into coral protectors. Both coral and the sea-dwelling Bajau people appear to be amphibious beings, moving between a changeable land-water interface, and between different, fluidly interwoven ontological constellations. We show that the failure of conservation organizations to recognize …
Radical ruralities in practice
Challenging Current Knowledge on Amazonian Dark Earths
Amazonian indigenous people grow manioc in landscapes of different agricultural potential, yet studies on indigenous manioc production on fertile soils are scarce. Non-indigenous communities grow specific manioc landraces on fertile Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE), but it is unknown whether indigenous farmers also do so. During 2 years, we studied manioc cultivation by five indigenous groups on different Amazonian soils using quantitative and qualita…
Classification and Use of Natural and Anthropogenic Soils by Indigenous Communities of the Upper Amazon Region of Colombia
Outsiders often oversimplify Amazon soil use by assuming that abundantly available natural soils are poorly suited to agriculture and that sporadic anthropogenic soils are agriculturally productive. Local perceptions about the potentials and limitations of soils probably differ, but information on these perceptions is scarce. We therefore examined how four indigenous communities in the Middle Caquetá River region in the Colombian Amazon classify …
Mixing Waters
This article demonstrates the importance of indigenous ontologies in cross-cultural or 'both ways' coastal conservation management of the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area in north east Arnhem Land, Australia.In this action research, selected Yolŋu individuals identified concerns regarding recreational fishing and boating practices of non-Yolŋu.Yolŋu engaged in a discussion of the issues and the subsequent formulation of indigenous management re…
Mundos equivocados
Este artículo describe y analiza los efectos de la minería artesanal que involucra a comunidades Andoque del Resguardo Aduche (Amazonía colombiana) en su seguridad alimentaria. En términos analíticos, el punto de partida es la existencia de diferentes perspectivas sobre las actividades de las poblaciones indígenas. Algunas de estas -las que se basan en la noción de "carencia"- distorsionan los ensamblajes en los que participan las comunidades ind…
Radical ruralities in practice
Agroecological peasant territories
We explore peasant territories as an emancipatory alternative in the context of authoritarian populism and neo-liberalism by focusing on two agroecological peasant territories in Brazil. We argue that territories harbour socio-ecological, cultural-political and politico-institutional bases that engender different forms of resistance and existence. Peasant territories build and defend emancipatory alternatives by creating self-governed knowledge a…
Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil
Most young people engaged in agroecology in Zona da Mata Mineira, Brazil, participate in popular education. Popular education is a Latin-American concept that entails transformative learning, among others. Despite the large body of literature on popular education, there is little knowledge about how it supports reflection, enhances situated abilities, and affects relationships between young farmers and nature. This article looks at popular educat…
From managing transitions towards building movements of affect
Policy and scholarly efforts to foster sustainable transformations focus on the contribution of practices and institutions; thus far, however, the affects that encourage and enable people to mobilise for and establish these transformative practices and institutions have received less attention. Drawing on the example of the agroecology movement in Brazil, this article examines how affects foster the creation of new farming, community and market r…
Between institutional reform and building popular movements
Agroecology is increasingly seen to contain solutions that can be used for wider societal transformation. While debates have mainly focused on reformist versus revolutionary strategies, less attention has been paid to how such strategies connect to peasant demands and how they can be combined for agroecological transformation. In this article we study transformation by the agroecology movement in Brazil through the theoretical lens of political a…
Re-imagining environmental governance
This article describes and analyses an encounter in the Colombian Amazon between Indigenous practices and arrangements to manage their environment and the conservation policies of the State. Indigenous peoples understand their world as populated by powerful human and nonhuman beings; for them, the moral duty of achieving happiness and abundance for all implies sustaining reciprocal and respectful relations with these beings (including the State).…
Challenging Current Knowledge on Amazonian Dark Earths
Amazonian indigenous people grow manioc in landscapes of different agricultural potential, yet studies on indigenous manioc production on fertile soils are scarce. Non-indigenous communities grow specific manioc landraces on fertile Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE), but it is unknown whether indigenous farmers also do so. During 2 years, we studied manioc cultivation by five indigenous groups on different Amazonian soils using quantitative and qualita…
Ontological politics in competing tourismscapes
This article examines a conflict over land on Las Islitas beach in San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico, between the owners of small beachfront eateries or enramadas and an Indigenous communal agrarian organization. We interpret this conflict as being not only a struggle over land but also as a struggle between the enactment of different tourismscapes and the corresponding ontological premises upon which these are based. To build our argument, we explore th…
Mixing Waters
This article demonstrates the importance of indigenous ontologies in cross-cultural or 'both ways' coastal conservation management of the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area in north east Arnhem Land, Australia.In this action research, selected Yolŋu individuals identified concerns regarding recreational fishing and boating practices of non-Yolŋu.Yolŋu engaged in a discussion of the issues and the subsequent formulation of indigenous management re…
Mixing Waters
This article demonstrates the importance of indigenous ontologies in cross-cultural or 'both ways' coastal conservation management of the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area in north east Arnhem Land, Australia.In this action research, selected Yolŋu individuals identified concerns regarding recreational fishing and boating practices of non-Yolŋu.Yolŋu engaged in a discussion of the issues and the subsequent formulation of indigenous management re…
Mundos equivocados
Este artículo describe y analiza los efectos de la minería artesanal que involucra a comunidades Andoque del Resguardo Aduche (Amazonía colombiana) en su seguridad alimentaria. En términos analíticos, el punto de partida es la existencia de diferentes perspectivas sobre las actividades de las poblaciones indígenas. Algunas de estas -las que se basan en la noción de "carencia"- distorsionan los ensamblajes en los que participan las comunidades ind…
Classification and Use of Natural and Anthropogenic Soils by Indigenous Communities of the Upper Amazon Region of Colombia
Outsiders often oversimplify Amazon soil use by assuming that abundantly available natural soils are poorly suited to agriculture and that sporadic anthropogenic soils are agriculturally productive. Local perceptions about the potentials and limitations of soils probably differ, but information on these perceptions is scarce. We therefore examined how four indigenous communities in the Middle Caquetá River region in the Colombian Amazon classify …
Amphibious Encounters
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in Indonesia, this article describes a conservation outreach project that attempts to educate and convert local people into coral protectors. Both coral and the sea-dwelling Bajau people appear to be amphibious beings, moving between a changeable land-water interface, and between different, fluidly interwoven ontological constellations. We show that the failure of conservation organizations to recognize …
Radical ruralities in practice
Challenging Current Knowledge on Amazonian Dark Earths
Amazonian indigenous people grow manioc in landscapes of different agricultural potential, yet studies on indigenous manioc production on fertile soils are scarce. Non-indigenous communities grow specific manioc landraces on fertile Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE), but it is unknown whether indigenous farmers also do so. During 2 years, we studied manioc cultivation by five indigenous groups on different Amazonian soils using quantitative and qualita…
The pebble in the shoe
Re-imagining environmental governance
This article describes and analyses an encounter in the Colombian Amazon between Indigenous practices and arrangements to manage their environment and the conservation policies of the State. Indigenous peoples understand their world as populated by powerful human and nonhuman beings; for them, the moral duty of achieving happiness and abundance for all implies sustaining reciprocal and respectful relations with these beings (including the State).…
Hacia una gobernanza adaptativa centrada en los grupos domésticos rurales que habitan las Áreas Naturales Protegidas. El caso de La Sepultura, Chiapas, México
Analizamos el efecto que el régimen socioambiental predominante en un Área Natural Protegida tiene sobre la gobernanza y sobre la reproducción económica de los grupos domésticos rurales de dos ejidos en la Reserva de la Biósfera La Sepultura (REBISE), Chiapas. Desarrollamos una investigación transdisciplinaria mediante el esquema conceptual de los Sistemas Territoriales Campesinos (SITCA). Esta incluyó talleres familiares sobre modos de vida, jue…
Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil
Most young people engaged in agroecology in Zona da Mata Mineira, Brazil, participate in popular education. Popular education is a Latin-American concept that entails transformative learning, among others. Despite the large body of literature on popular education, there is little knowledge about how it supports reflection, enhances situated abilities, and affects relationships between young farmers and nature. This article looks at popular educat…
Between institutional reform and building popular movements
Agroecology is increasingly seen to contain solutions that can be used for wider societal transformation. While debates have mainly focused on reformist versus revolutionary strategies, less attention has been paid to how such strategies connect to peasant demands and how they can be combined for agroecological transformation. In this article we study transformation by the agroecology movement in Brazil through the theoretical lens of political a…
Agroecological peasant territories
We explore peasant territories as an emancipatory alternative in the context of authoritarian populism and neo-liberalism by focusing on two agroecological peasant territories in Brazil. We argue that territories harbour socio-ecological, cultural-political and politico-institutional bases that engender different forms of resistance and existence. Peasant territories build and defend emancipatory alternatives by creating self-governed knowledge a…
From managing transitions towards building movements of affect
Policy and scholarly efforts to foster sustainable transformations focus on the contribution of practices and institutions; thus far, however, the affects that encourage and enable people to mobilise for and establish these transformative practices and institutions have received less attention. Drawing on the example of the agroecology movement in Brazil, this article examines how affects foster the creation of new farming, community and market r…
Ontological politics in competing tourismscapes
This article examines a conflict over land on Las Islitas beach in San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico, between the owners of small beachfront eateries or enramadas and an Indigenous communal agrarian organization. We interpret this conflict as being not only a struggle over land but also as a struggle between the enactment of different tourismscapes and the corresponding ontological premises upon which these are based. To build our argument, we explore th…
Públicos duraderos y transitorios. Historia lineal y tiempos mareales en San Blas, Nayarit, México
En este artículo narramos las trayectorias históricas que dan lugar a diversos públicos en torno a tres conflictos por las zonas marinas y por la zona costera en tres diferentes escenarios de San Blas, Nayarit. Sostenemos que el surgimiento de múltiples públicos interpela el interés “común” de las políticas públicas de desarrollo. En contraste con una mirada lineal de la historia, estos tres conflictos contemporáneos se comunican con un pasado “l…
Understanding forest transitions and lock-ins in Latin American agro-forest frontiers
The agro-forest frontier is the dynamic border between agricultural and forested lands. Drawing on results from an interdisciplinary research programme, we synthesise and compare social-ecological dynamics in three Latin American agro-forest frontiers: Marqués de Comillas and La Sepultura in Mexico, and Zona da Mata in Brazil. Each includes extensive livestock grazing, rain-fed agriculture, secondary vegetation, and state-protected areas. Forest …
Political science (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Agroecology (4 works)