Mariel Aguilar-Støen
Biographic Data
| ID | 177313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariel Aguilar-Støen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariel |
| FAMILY NAME | Aguilar-Støen |
| SIGNATURE | AGUILAR-STØEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8709-4713 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Caught in the coop: Local labour control regimes in poultry supply chains under avian influenza
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) pose an escalating threat to global poultry supply chains, with their management highlighting reconfigurations in economic geography through the increasing centrality of actors and processes beyond the farm-level. Taking HPAI outbreaks in Denmark as our empirical focus, we argue that outbreaks and their management reveal poultry growers’ lack of control over the labour process. Growers organiz…
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Dangerous Liaisons: Unveiling the Co‐Constitution of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Industrial Meat Production
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have intensified over the last decade, spotlighting the concept of “epicentre” as a means of locating disease origins. Although epicentre thinking can facilitate rapid interventions, it often overlooks the political‐economic and ecological forces driving outbreaks. Drawing on critical geography, political ecology, and global supply chain analyses, we reconceptualise the epicentre as “a set of …
How to turn over an egg: Rethinking the temporality of global value chains amidst emerging infectious diseases
The temporality of global value chains is an important area of concern for economic geographers. This paper argues for the analytical value of closely examining the category of 'turnover time' as articulated in Marx's work and subsequent historical-geographical materialism. We argue that turnover times of capitals in competition - hence struggles over time - can be conceptualised as a driving force behind what the GVC literature refers to as 'cha…
Turnover time in the pandemic era: Industrial Poultry, Avian Influenza and Capitalist Strategies
Beyond Contracts: Supply Chains and Dynamics of Incorporation Among Classes of Capital in the Aftermath of Global Outbreaks of Avian Flu
This study investigates how agricultural producers are incorporated into commodity circuits under contemporary capitalism, in the context of growing pressures from emerging infectious diseases. Focusing on poultry production systems in Denmark and Norway currently under threat from highly pathogenic avian influenza, we argue that understanding these dynamics requires an expanded conception of agriculture that accounts for the contractual arrangem…
Dirty lives, wild birds, clean places, and exceptional health: A critical discourse analysis of Danish and Norwegian news coverage of avian influenza risk
Avian influenza outbreaks are recurring worldwide. In Norwegian and Danish media, fluctuating attention has been paid to these outbreaks and the coverage that exists largely portrays the situation as a distant problem, limited to so-called non-Western countries. In the present article, we have analysed news articles from two Norwegian and two Danish newspapers published in 2006/2008, 2017 and 2021 using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). By analy…
Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research
A just energy transition is as much about acknowledging and acting on the socio-material needs of marginalised classes and groups as about informing inclusive and deliberative policy-making towards more equitable energy futures. In democracies, energy social scientists hold a privileged position and special responsibility to do both, thus offering critical support to decision-makers and practitioners. We articulate the challenges and opportunitie…
Punching above their weight: Opposition to mining and Xinka politics in Guatemala
This article investigates how Xinka indigeneity disrupts the dominant order in Guatemala. Our analysis below focus on Xinka politics in a Rancièrian sense. Our main objective is to understand how, and to what extent, the Xinka are becoming visible bodies, sayable names, and audible voices, thus, disrupting the status quo in Guatemala. This article contributes to a growing body of scholarship examining the complex and heterogeneous political posit…
Tourism in Post-revolutionary Nicaragua: Struggles over Land, Water, and Fish
Between a rock and a hard place: Rural transformations and migrant communities in Guatemala
My case study of a Guatemalan coffee cooperative illustrates how migrant aspirations shape and are being shaped by this rural institution, and how local dynamics and international flows interact. I understand aspirations to involve negotiations of the past in the present, thus serving as a compass for action. Opportunities for coffee production and access to land that are opened by the remittance economy provide more than material gains; they exp…
Resistance, repression and elite dynamics: Unpacking violence in the Guatemalan mining sector
Migration as a feature of land system transitions
Peace-building and business elites in Guatemala and El Salvador: Explaining the Discursive 'Institutional Turn
The local business elites of El Salvador were generally in favour of the peace agreement and supported its negotiation and implementation in 1992, while in Guatemala the private sector reluctantly supported the peace process and, after the peace agreements were signed in 1996, the private sector sought to obstruct parts of its implementation. In the aftermath of the peace accords, business elites united around an ideology espousing a minimal stat…
Social forestry movements and science-policy networks: The politics of the forestry incentives program in Guatemala
Better Safe than Sorry? Indigenous Peoples, Carbon Cowboys and the Governance of Redd in the Amazon
Indigenous peoples around the world and particularly in Latin America are struggling to strengthen their control over land and the territories they inhabit. The strengthening of rights has come as a result of multiple processes both at national and global levels, in which the role and responsibilities of states have been transformed. Transnational processes challenge the presumed association between nation-states, sovereignty and territoriality. …
Bottom-up responses to environmental and social impact assessments: A case study from Guatemala
Forest Governance in Latin America: Strategies for Implementing Redd
Global interest in and attention to forests have grown as concerns about global warming and climate change have taken a heightened position in international policy debates. Forests have been repositioned in international arenas as repositories of global value for their contribution to carbon sequestration and climate mitigation (Fairhead and Leach, 2003; Peet, Robbins and Watts, 2011). In this context, Latin American forests are seen as globally …
Changing Elites, Institutions and Environmental Governance
The topic of elites has always been controversial in Latin American social sciences. Elites have been studied indirectly as landowners, capitalists, business-leaders or politicians, and have also been approached directly using concepts and theory from elite studies. Although there is a significant amount of literature on the role of elites in democratic transformations (see e.g. Higley and Gunther, 1992), elites have often been considered to be a…
Beyond Transnational Corporations, Food and Biofuels: The Role of Extractivism and Agribusiness in Land Grabbing in Central America
Land grabbing in Central America is driven primarily by agro-industries and mining. Tourism development and infrastructure are also important forces behind new processes of land acquisition. Examining land grabbing in Central America allows us to move beyond single-cause explanations of land grabs and shows that it is a complicated and multi-actor process occurring at many scales. Contemporary processes of land acquisition and land re-concentrati…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Frontiers of Research on Development and the Environment
International migration, land use change and the environment in Ixcán, Guatemala
Peer Reviewers
Protestas contra la minería en Guatemala. ¿Qué papel juegan las élites en los conflictos
Las protestas de los movimientos contra la industria extractiva, particularmenteen Guatemala, han sido enfrentadas en la mayoría de los casos con respuestasviolentas de parte del Gobierno y de las compañías mineras. El análisis poneparticular atención a la forma en la que las élites operan y construyen alianzas,y manejan los recursos y medios para imponerse, generalmente con violencia. Elanálisis presentado en este artículo sugiere que la respues…
Agriculture, Land Tenure and International Migration in RuralGuatemala
In this paper, we ask what the effects of migration and remittances are on land tenure, agriculture and forests, based on empirical evidence from four rural communities inGuatemala. Our results suggest that remittances improve migrant families' access to agricultural land which - depending on the context - fosters more equitable local land distribution patterns or land concentration by migrant families. Changes in the political economy of the cou…
Beyond Transnational Corporations, Food and Biofuels: The Role of Extractivism and Agribusiness in Land Grabbing in Central America
Land grabbing in Central America is driven primarily by agro-industries and mining. Tourism development and infrastructure are also important forces behind new processes of land acquisition. Examining land grabbing in Central America allows us to move beyond single-cause explanations of land grabs and shows that it is a complicated and multi-actor process occurring at many scales. Contemporary processes of land acquisition and land re-concentrati…
Home Gardens Sustain Crop Diversity and Improve Farm Resilience in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico
Resistance, repression and elite dynamics: Unpacking violence in the Guatemalan mining sector
Bottom-up responses to environmental and social impact assessments: A case study from Guatemala
Protestas contra la minería en Guatemala. ¿Qué papel juegan las élites en los conflictos
Las protestas de los movimientos contra la industria extractiva, particularmenteen Guatemala, han sido enfrentadas en la mayoría de los casos con respuestasviolentas de parte del Gobierno y de las compañías mineras. El análisis poneparticular atención a la forma en la que las élites operan y construyen alianzas,y manejan los recursos y medios para imponerse, generalmente con violencia. Elanálisis presentado en este artículo sugiere que la respues…
Better Safe than Sorry? Indigenous Peoples, Carbon Cowboys and the Governance of Redd in the Amazon
Indigenous peoples around the world and particularly in Latin America are struggling to strengthen their control over land and the territories they inhabit. The strengthening of rights has come as a result of multiple processes both at national and global levels, in which the role and responsibilities of states have been transformed. Transnational processes challenge the presumed association between nation-states, sovereignty and territoriality. …
Agriculture, Land Tenure and International Migration in RuralGuatemala
In this paper, we ask what the effects of migration and remittances are on land tenure, agriculture and forests, based on empirical evidence from four rural communities inGuatemala. Our results suggest that remittances improve migrant families' access to agricultural land which - depending on the context - fosters more equitable local land distribution patterns or land concentration by migrant families. Changes in the political economy of the cou…
Environmental Impact Assessments, local power and self-determination: The case of mining and hydropower development in Guatemala
Migration as a feature of land system transitions
Environmental Politics in Latin America: Elite dynamics, the left tide and sustainable development
1. Environmental governance and sustainable development in Latin America 2. Elites, classes and environmental governance: Conceptual and theoretical challenges Part 1: Agriculture and biotechnology 3. El Salvador: The challenge to entrenched elites and the difficult road to a sustainable development model 4. Bolivia: Emerging and traditional elites and the governance of the soy sector 5. Argentina: Government-agribusiness elite dynamics and its c…
Punching above their weight: Opposition to mining and Xinka politics in Guatemala
This article investigates how Xinka indigeneity disrupts the dominant order in Guatemala. Our analysis below focus on Xinka politics in a Rancièrian sense. Our main objective is to understand how, and to what extent, the Xinka are becoming visible bodies, sayable names, and audible voices, thus, disrupting the status quo in Guatemala. This article contributes to a growing body of scholarship examining the complex and heterogeneous political posit…
International migration, land use change and the environment in Ixcán, Guatemala
Global forest conservation initiatives as spaces for participation in Colombia and Costa Rica
Between a rock and a hard place: Rural transformations and migrant communities in Guatemala
My case study of a Guatemalan coffee cooperative illustrates how migrant aspirations shape and are being shaped by this rural institution, and how local dynamics and international flows interact. I understand aspirations to involve negotiations of the past in the present, thus serving as a compass for action. Opportunities for coffee production and access to land that are opened by the remittance economy provide more than material gains; they exp…
Peace-building and business elites in Guatemala and El Salvador: Explaining the Discursive 'Institutional Turn
The local business elites of El Salvador were generally in favour of the peace agreement and supported its negotiation and implementation in 1992, while in Guatemala the private sector reluctantly supported the peace process and, after the peace agreements were signed in 1996, the private sector sought to obstruct parts of its implementation. In the aftermath of the peace accords, business elites united around an ideology espousing a minimal stat…
Social forestry movements and science-policy networks: The politics of the forestry incentives program in Guatemala
Con nuestro propio esfuerzo’: Understanding the Relationships between International Migration and the Environment in Guatemala
International migration from rural areas affects the environment in numerous and complex ways. The inflow of economic and social remittances changes production and consumption patterns, social relations, and social and economic institutions in the places of origin of migrants. In this case study, I discuss how migration is pushing a local process of land redistribution in Guatemala. Such a process is also changing patterns of land use and land co…
Dangerous Liaisons: Unveiling the Co‐Constitution of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Industrial Meat Production
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have intensified over the last decade, spotlighting the concept of “epicentre” as a means of locating disease origins. Although epicentre thinking can facilitate rapid interventions, it often overlooks the political‐economic and ecological forces driving outbreaks. Drawing on critical geography, political ecology, and global supply chain analyses, we reconceptualise the epicentre as “a set of …
Turnover time in the pandemic era: Industrial Poultry, Avian Influenza and Capitalist Strategies
Introduction to the Special Issue: Frontiers of Research on Development and the Environment
Beyond Contracts: Supply Chains and Dynamics of Incorporation Among Classes of Capital in the Aftermath of Global Outbreaks of Avian Flu
This study investigates how agricultural producers are incorporated into commodity circuits under contemporary capitalism, in the context of growing pressures from emerging infectious diseases. Focusing on poultry production systems in Denmark and Norway currently under threat from highly pathogenic avian influenza, we argue that understanding these dynamics requires an expanded conception of agriculture that accounts for the contractual arrangem…
The Emergence, Persistence, and Current Challenges of Coffee Forest Gardens: A Case Study From Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico
In many parts of Latin America coffee is produced in forest garden systems, which fulfill a variety of household needs, enhance food security, and conserve biodiversity. We investigate drivers in the emergence, persistence, and decline of coffee forest gardens, using a case study in southern Mexico and combining historical, socioeconomic, and institutional analysis. Social, cultural, and political benefits linked to forest gardens are important d…
Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research
A just energy transition is as much about acknowledging and acting on the socio-material needs of marginalised classes and groups as about informing inclusive and deliberative policy-making towards more equitable energy futures. In democracies, energy social scientists hold a privileged position and special responsibility to do both, thus offering critical support to decision-makers and practitioners. We articulate the challenges and opportunitie…
Withdrawn: Bioprospecting under different technological, biological and regulatory settings: trends and challenges
Home Gardens Sustain Crop Diversity and Improve Farm Resilience in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico
Back to the Forest: Exploring Forest Transitions in Candelaria Loxicha, Mexico
Declining profitability of agriculture and/or higher prices of forest products and services typically drive an increase in forest cover. This article examines changes in forest cover in Candelaria Loxicha, Mexico. Forest cover increased in the area as a result of coffee cultivation in coffee forest-garden systems. Dependence on forest products and services, and not prices of forest products, drive the process in our study site. Low international …
The Emergence, Persistence, and Current Challenges of Coffee Forest Gardens: A Case Study From Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico
In many parts of Latin America coffee is produced in forest garden systems, which fulfill a variety of household needs, enhance food security, and conserve biodiversity. We investigate drivers in the emergence, persistence, and decline of coffee forest gardens, using a case study in southern Mexico and combining historical, socioeconomic, and institutional analysis. Social, cultural, and political benefits linked to forest gardens are important d…
Con nuestro propio esfuerzo’: Understanding the Relationships between International Migration and the Environment in Guatemala
International migration from rural areas affects the environment in numerous and complex ways. The inflow of economic and social remittances changes production and consumption patterns, social relations, and social and economic institutions in the places of origin of migrants. In this case study, I discuss how migration is pushing a local process of land redistribution in Guatemala. Such a process is also changing patterns of land use and land co…
Environmental Politics in Latin America: Elite dynamics, the left tide and sustainable development
1. Environmental governance and sustainable development in Latin America 2. Elites, classes and environmental governance: Conceptual and theoretical challenges Part 1: Agriculture and biotechnology 3. El Salvador: The challenge to entrenched elites and the difficult road to a sustainable development model 4. Bolivia: Emerging and traditional elites and the governance of the soy sector 5. Argentina: Government-agribusiness elite dynamics and its c…
Exploring participation in new forms of environmental governance: A case study of payments for environmental services in Nicaragua
Environmental Impact Assessments, local power and self-determination: The case of mining and hydropower development in Guatemala
Global forest conservation initiatives as spaces for participation in Colombia and Costa Rica
Forest Governance in Latin America: Strategies for Implementing Redd
Global interest in and attention to forests have grown as concerns about global warming and climate change have taken a heightened position in international policy debates. Forests have been repositioned in international arenas as repositories of global value for their contribution to carbon sequestration and climate mitigation (Fairhead and Leach, 2003; Peet, Robbins and Watts, 2011). In this context, Latin American forests are seen as globally …
Changing Elites, Institutions and Environmental Governance
The topic of elites has always been controversial in Latin American social sciences. Elites have been studied indirectly as landowners, capitalists, business-leaders or politicians, and have also been approached directly using concepts and theory from elite studies. Although there is a significant amount of literature on the role of elites in democratic transformations (see e.g. Higley and Gunther, 1992), elites have often been considered to be a…
Beyond Transnational Corporations, Food and Biofuels: The Role of Extractivism and Agribusiness in Land Grabbing in Central America
Land grabbing in Central America is driven primarily by agro-industries and mining. Tourism development and infrastructure are also important forces behind new processes of land acquisition. Examining land grabbing in Central America allows us to move beyond single-cause explanations of land grabs and shows that it is a complicated and multi-actor process occurring at many scales. Contemporary processes of land acquisition and land re-concentrati…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Frontiers of Research on Development and the Environment
International migration, land use change and the environment in Ixcán, Guatemala
Peer Reviewers
Protestas contra la minería en Guatemala. ¿Qué papel juegan las élites en los conflictos
Las protestas de los movimientos contra la industria extractiva, particularmenteen Guatemala, han sido enfrentadas en la mayoría de los casos con respuestasviolentas de parte del Gobierno y de las compañías mineras. El análisis poneparticular atención a la forma en la que las élites operan y construyen alianzas,y manejan los recursos y medios para imponerse, generalmente con violencia. Elanálisis presentado en este artículo sugiere que la respues…
Agriculture, Land Tenure and International Migration in RuralGuatemala
In this paper, we ask what the effects of migration and remittances are on land tenure, agriculture and forests, based on empirical evidence from four rural communities inGuatemala. Our results suggest that remittances improve migrant families' access to agricultural land which - depending on the context - fosters more equitable local land distribution patterns or land concentration by migrant families. Changes in the political economy of the cou…
Better Safe than Sorry? Indigenous Peoples, Carbon Cowboys and the Governance of Redd in the Amazon
Indigenous peoples around the world and particularly in Latin America are struggling to strengthen their control over land and the territories they inhabit. The strengthening of rights has come as a result of multiple processes both at national and global levels, in which the role and responsibilities of states have been transformed. Transnational processes challenge the presumed association between nation-states, sovereignty and territoriality. …
Bottom-up responses to environmental and social impact assessments: A case study from Guatemala
Social forestry movements and science-policy networks: The politics of the forestry incentives program in Guatemala
Migration as a feature of land system transitions
Peace-building and business elites in Guatemala and El Salvador: Explaining the Discursive 'Institutional Turn
The local business elites of El Salvador were generally in favour of the peace agreement and supported its negotiation and implementation in 1992, while in Guatemala the private sector reluctantly supported the peace process and, after the peace agreements were signed in 1996, the private sector sought to obstruct parts of its implementation. In the aftermath of the peace accords, business elites united around an ideology espousing a minimal stat…
Tourism in Post-revolutionary Nicaragua: Struggles over Land, Water, and Fish
Between a rock and a hard place: Rural transformations and migrant communities in Guatemala
My case study of a Guatemalan coffee cooperative illustrates how migrant aspirations shape and are being shaped by this rural institution, and how local dynamics and international flows interact. I understand aspirations to involve negotiations of the past in the present, thus serving as a compass for action. Opportunities for coffee production and access to land that are opened by the remittance economy provide more than material gains; they exp…
Resistance, repression and elite dynamics: Unpacking violence in the Guatemalan mining sector
Political science (23 works) · Geography (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Law (10 works)