Barbara Hogenboom
Biographic Data
| ID | 239351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Hogenboom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Hogenboom |
| SIGNATURE | HOGENBOOM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0891-3176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 319 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
River co-learning arenas: Principles and Practices for Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-Creation and Multi-Scalar (Inter)action
This paper develops the methodological concept of river co-learning arenas (RCAs) and explores their potential to strengthen innovative grassroots river initiatives, enliven river commons, regenerate river ecologies, and foster greater socio-ecological justice. The integrity of river systems has been threatened in profound ways over the last century. Pollution, damming, canalisation, and water grabbing are some examples of pressures threatening t…
Entangled territorial controversies: Contesting mining, territorial ordering, and authority in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Mining, territorial ordering, and authority are contested in Guatemala’s second city. • Dominant territory-making practices and new spatial ordering techniques coincide. • Territorial defense articulates shared concerns despite violence and tensions. • Territorial defense movements are complex and comprise contradictions. • Complexifying territorial defense can strengthen future struggles across difference. This article examines territorial dispu…
Riverhood: Political Ecologies of Socionature Commoning and Translocal Struggles for Water Justice
Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist imaginaries of ordering 'unruly waters and humans' have become cornerstones of hydraulic-bureaucratic and capitalist development. They separate hydro/social worlds, sideline river-commons cultures, and deepen socio-environmental injustices. But myriad new water justice movements (NWJMs) proliferate: rooted, disruptive, transdisciplinary, multi-scalar coalitions …
Scaling up but losing out? Water commons' dilemmas between transnational movements and grassroots struggles in Latin America
Commoning Xela: Negotiating collective spaces around a Central American intermediate city
This exploration is based on joint fieldwork conducted by an interdisciplinary research team in the city of Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. It uses the notion of commoning as an analytic lens to understand social transformations in this intermediate city, and in contemporary Latin America at large. The interplay of commoning, de-commoning and re-commoning processes draws attention to the cocreation and collective production of tangible and inta…
Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America
Societal change in Latin America is intimately related to nature and natural resources. In this resource-rich region, nature–society relations provide both opportunities and challenges in achieving more fair, equitable and sustainable development. Nearly half of the world’s tropical forests are found in the region, next to several other natural biomes, which together carry a wealth of biodiversity. It holds one-third of the world’s freshwater res…
The extractive imperative and the boom in environmental conflicts at the end of the progressive cycle in Latin America
Debating Alternative Development at the Mining Frontier: Buen Vivir and the Conflict around El Mirador Mine in Ecuador
In Ecuador, the recent introduction of mineral mining led to a conflictive debate on mining and development, particularly the concept of Buen Vivir (good living). This article examines the discourses on the mining–development nexus articulated in the conflict around the first large-scale mine of Ecuador, El Mirador. The findings indicate that although the conflict concerns tangible territorial transformations, it is also a struggle over meanings.…
The extractive imperative in Latin America
Environmental Governance in Latin America
governance; society; environment
A Brief History of Erlacs
ERLACS – European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies is an Open Access, scientific journal. It publishes peer-reviewed articles in English and Spanish. Contributions reflect substantial empirical research and/or are theoretically innovative with respect to major debates within social science research (understood in the broadest sense, including history and economics) on Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to research articles…
Latin America’s Transformative New Extraction and Local Conflicts
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America, edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury. University of Texas Press, 2013.Unearthing conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru, by Fabiana Li. Duke University Press, 2015.Oil Sparks in the Amazon: Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources, by Patricia I. Vásquez. University of Georgia Press, 2014
The changing politics of lobbying: Private sector organizations in Mexico
This article analyzes how the relations between Mexico's private sector, particularly that of business power groups and interest groups, and the political elite changed as a result of processes of neo‐liberalization and democratization from the early 1980s through the presidency of Vicente Fox (2000–2006). The analysis provides several insights into Mexico's developing interest group system during these years and particularly that of business int…
Neo‐liberalism, big business and the evolution of interest group activity in Latin America
In the 1980s and 1990s, the confluence of the third wave of democracy, neo‐liberal economic reforms and economic crises in Latin America, produced several significant consequences for the region's underdeveloped interest group systems. By using an international political economy approach, this article examines these developments and particularly how neo‐liberal policies affected the political fortunes of big business plus the broader political fa…
Depoliticized and Repoliticized Minerals in Latin America
Control over mineral wealth has become a highly politicized issue in Latin America, and the region-wide leftwards political shift of the 2000s has profoundly changed mineral policies. After the neoliberal development model of free markets, the state has recently taken a center stage position again, at least with regard to oil, gas, and metallic minerals. This article studies the nature and implications of the shift from neoliberal to post-neolibe…
The New Politics of Mineral Extraction in Latin America: Preface
Environmental governance in Latin America: Towards an integrative research agenda
Latin America plays an important international role with regard to environmental governance. Knowledge generated by empirical and theoretical studies on environmental challenges can support the renewed efforts to achieve equitable and sustainable natural resource use in the region. Although linkages between social and environmental dimensions have been academically explored since the 1990s, new trends in environmental governance in Latin America …
Governança ambiental na América Latina: Para Uma Agenda De Pesquisa Mais Integrada
A América Latina exerce um papel internacional importante em relação à governança ambiental. O conhecimento gerado por estudos empíricos e teóricos sobre os desafios ambientais fundamenta os esforços renovados na região para se alcançar o uso dos recursos naturais de maneira sustentável e equitativa. Embora os vínculos entre as dimensões social e ambiental tenham sido pauta do meio acadêmico desde a década de 1990, novas tendências na governança …
The New Left and Mineral Politics: What’s New
After the rise of the left in the region and some years of booming global commodity prices, a post-neoliberal debate on Latin America’s primary commodity sector has come about. The control over and revenues from hydrocarbon and mining exports are a spearhead in the discourses and policies of the region’s many leftist political regimes. This ‘Exploration’ discusses recent political and policy changes, the new role of the state, relations between t…
Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness - Edited by Steven Levitsky and Maria V. Murillo
The Middle East, Russia and Latin America Facing the Rise of China: Editorial Preface
Latin America and China Under Global Neoliberalism
While China and Latin America simultaneously implemented neoliberal policies as part of a profound economic restructuring process, there are important differences in the results of their policies and economic performance. This article discusses the different development paths of Latin America and China, including their starting points, economic policies and political processes. China's expansion and Latin America's liberalization have brought the…
Developing Regions Facing China in a Neoliberalized World
The rapid expansion of China is one of the key economic and political issues at the start of the twenty-first century. China's importance in South-South trade (and competition) as well as in South-South investment has already brought about many changes for developing regions, and they are likely to be extrapolated in the years to come. The growing economic position of the biggest developing country in the world implies much greater political powe…
Developing Regions, Africa and Indonesia Facing the Rise of China
China's Growing Economic and Political Power: Effects on the Global South
China's rapid economic expansion has impressed the world. At the beginning of the twenty-first century China has become the third largest importing as well as exporting country, the fourth largest economy in the world (after the United States, Japan and Germany), and one of the top three destinations of foreign direct investment. The figures of its increasing world export market share in the period of 1985 to 2000 show that China has profited mor…
The extractive imperative in Latin America
Riverhood: Political Ecologies of Socionature Commoning and Translocal Struggles for Water Justice
Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist imaginaries of ordering 'unruly waters and humans' have become cornerstones of hydraulic-bureaucratic and capitalist development. They separate hydro/social worlds, sideline river-commons cultures, and deepen socio-environmental injustices. But myriad new water justice movements (NWJMs) proliferate: rooted, disruptive, transdisciplinary, multi-scalar coalitions …
Environmental Governance in Latin America
governance; society; environment
The extractive imperative and the boom in environmental conflicts at the end of the progressive cycle in Latin America
Depoliticized and Repoliticized Minerals in Latin America
Control over mineral wealth has become a highly politicized issue in Latin America, and the region-wide leftwards political shift of the 2000s has profoundly changed mineral policies. After the neoliberal development model of free markets, the state has recently taken a center stage position again, at least with regard to oil, gas, and metallic minerals. This article studies the nature and implications of the shift from neoliberal to post-neolibe…
Debating Alternative Development at the Mining Frontier: Buen Vivir and the Conflict around El Mirador Mine in Ecuador
In Ecuador, the recent introduction of mineral mining led to a conflictive debate on mining and development, particularly the concept of Buen Vivir (good living). This article examines the discourses on the mining–development nexus articulated in the conflict around the first large-scale mine of Ecuador, El Mirador. The findings indicate that although the conflict concerns tangible territorial transformations, it is also a struggle over meanings.…
Neo‐liberalism, big business and the evolution of interest group activity in Latin America
In the 1980s and 1990s, the confluence of the third wave of democracy, neo‐liberal economic reforms and economic crises in Latin America, produced several significant consequences for the region's underdeveloped interest group systems. By using an international political economy approach, this article examines these developments and particularly how neo‐liberal policies affected the political fortunes of big business plus the broader political fa…
The New Left and Mineral Politics: What’s New
After the rise of the left in the region and some years of booming global commodity prices, a post-neoliberal debate on Latin America’s primary commodity sector has come about. The control over and revenues from hydrocarbon and mining exports are a spearhead in the discourses and policies of the region’s many leftist political regimes. This ‘Exploration’ discusses recent political and policy changes, the new role of the state, relations between t…
The changing politics of lobbying: Private sector organizations in Mexico
This article analyzes how the relations between Mexico's private sector, particularly that of business power groups and interest groups, and the political elite changed as a result of processes of neo‐liberalization and democratization from the early 1980s through the presidency of Vicente Fox (2000–2006). The analysis provides several insights into Mexico's developing interest group system during these years and particularly that of business int…
Entangled territorial controversies: Contesting mining, territorial ordering, and authority in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Mining, territorial ordering, and authority are contested in Guatemala’s second city. • Dominant territory-making practices and new spatial ordering techniques coincide. • Territorial defense articulates shared concerns despite violence and tensions. • Territorial defense movements are complex and comprise contradictions. • Complexifying territorial defense can strengthen future struggles across difference. This article examines territorial dispu…
Commoning Xela: Negotiating collective spaces around a Central American intermediate city
This exploration is based on joint fieldwork conducted by an interdisciplinary research team in the city of Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. It uses the notion of commoning as an analytic lens to understand social transformations in this intermediate city, and in contemporary Latin America at large. The interplay of commoning, de-commoning and re-commoning processes draws attention to the cocreation and collective production of tangible and inta…
Latin America’s Transformative New Extraction and Local Conflicts
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America, edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury. University of Texas Press, 2013.Unearthing conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru, by Fabiana Li. Duke University Press, 2015.Oil Sparks in the Amazon: Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources, by Patricia I. Vásquez. University of Georgia Press, 2014
Environmental governance in Latin America: Towards an integrative research agenda
Latin America plays an important international role with regard to environmental governance. Knowledge generated by empirical and theoretical studies on environmental challenges can support the renewed efforts to achieve equitable and sustainable natural resource use in the region. Although linkages between social and environmental dimensions have been academically explored since the 1990s, new trends in environmental governance in Latin America …
Governança ambiental na América Latina: Para Uma Agenda De Pesquisa Mais Integrada
A América Latina exerce um papel internacional importante em relação à governança ambiental. O conhecimento gerado por estudos empíricos e teóricos sobre os desafios ambientais fundamenta os esforços renovados na região para se alcançar o uso dos recursos naturais de maneira sustentável e equitativa. Embora os vínculos entre as dimensões social e ambiental tenham sido pauta do meio acadêmico desde a década de 1990, novas tendências na governança …
Economic Concentration and Conglomerates in Mexico
Mexico’s economic groups are currently the most powerful of Latin America. Various indices show that Mexican conglomerates are very successful, and Cemex is the only company from the region in the top 25 MNCs from developing countries. Large Mexican companies have grown extensively with the expanded export opportunities created by NAFTA, turning Mexico’s economy into the largest in Latin America. But are Mexican conglomerates expected to survive …
Latin American Experiences with Open Regionalism: Introduction
Open regionalism is the new dominant strategy for the economic integration of Latin American countries. This neoliberal approach to insertion into the world economy by means of regionalization constitutes a clear shift away from the Keynesian concept of economic integration through import-substitution industrialization (ISI). Instead of focusing on national industrialization, the efforts are now directed at industrialization on a regional scale. …
Cooperation and polarisation beyond borders: The transnationalisation of Mexican environmental issues during the Nafta negotiations
River co-learning arenas: Principles and Practices for Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-Creation and Multi-Scalar (Inter)action
This paper develops the methodological concept of river co-learning arenas (RCAs) and explores their potential to strengthen innovative grassroots river initiatives, enliven river commons, regenerate river ecologies, and foster greater socio-ecological justice. The integrity of river systems has been threatened in profound ways over the last century. Pollution, damming, canalisation, and water grabbing are some examples of pressures threatening t…
The New Politics of Mineral Extraction in Latin America: Preface
Latin America and China Under Global Neoliberalism
While China and Latin America simultaneously implemented neoliberal policies as part of a profound economic restructuring process, there are important differences in the results of their policies and economic performance. This article discusses the different development paths of Latin America and China, including their starting points, economic policies and political processes. China's expansion and Latin America's liberalization have brought the…
Developing Regions Facing China in a Neoliberalized World
The rapid expansion of China is one of the key economic and political issues at the start of the twenty-first century. China's importance in South-South trade (and competition) as well as in South-South investment has already brought about many changes for developing regions, and they are likely to be extrapolated in the years to come. The growing economic position of the biggest developing country in the world implies much greater political powe…
América Latina frente a China en el neoliberalismo global
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Mexico: Open Regionalism and the Politics of a Transnationalizing State
Mexico: Open Regionalism and the Politics of a Transnationalizing State
Latin American Experiences with Open Regionalism: Introduction
Open regionalism is the new dominant strategy for the economic integration of Latin American countries. This neoliberal approach to insertion into the world economy by means of regionalization constitutes a clear shift away from the Keynesian concept of economic integration through import-substitution industrialization (ISI). Instead of focusing on national industrialization, the efforts are now directed at industrialization on a regional scale. …
Cooperation and polarisation beyond borders: The transnationalisation of Mexican environmental issues during the Nafta negotiations
Mexico in Transition
Mexico’s Politics and Society in Transition, edited by Joseph S. Tulchin and Andrew D. Selee. Boulder/London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. – México al inicio del siglo XXI: democracia, cuidadanía y desarrollo, edited by Alberto Aziz Nassif. México: CIESAS & Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 2003. – Globalización y alternativas incluyentes para el siglo XXI, edited by Jorge Basave, Alejandro Dabat, Carlos Morera, Miguel Ángel Rivera Ríos & Francisco Rodrígu…
‘Good governance’ can make bad government
In November 1995 the Dayton Peace Agreement ended the Bosnian war and established the framework of the new Bosnian state. This involved several levels of representative government, including central state institutions, the two entity-level bodies, the MuslimCroat Federation and Republika Srpska, district cantons within the Federation and municipal bodies across Bosnia. As well as elected bodies, Dayton established a framework of international pol…
Triple transition and governance in El Salvador
In situations of post-settlement peace building it is often emphasised that, in order to create a self-sustaining peace, a triple transition is needed, combining economic reform and political democratisation with changes in the security regime. The idea of the triple transition can be seen as an international agenda of economic liberalisation and good governance that is adapted to war-torn societies by adding security issues. The three transition…
Good governance, privatisation and ethno-regional conflict in Cameroon
By proclaiming that a ‘crisis of governance’ underlies ‘the litany of Africa’s development problems’, the World Bank’s 1989 report Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth placed the concept of good governance at the heart of the donor agenda for Africa (World Bank 1989:60). Painfully confronted at the time with the relative failure of its structural adjustment programmes (SAPs), the World Bank was inclined in this report to blame th…
Playing Russian roulette
In his state-of-the-union address on 8 July 2000, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin touched on several governance themes, including the need to strengthen central authority. He said that ‘an era is beginning in Russia where the authorities are gaining the moral right to demand that established state norms should be observed’ and that ‘strict observance of laws must become a need for all people in Russia by their own choice’. He pointed out that ‘…
The political economy of neoliberal governance in Latin America
In response to the debt crisis of the 1980s, the collective of Latin American countries under pressure from international financial institutions like the IMF experienced rough and profound programmes of economic reform. Almost half a century of Keynesian economic policies, which implemented a scheme of self-sustained and state sponsored industrial development, was replaced by neo-liberalism-an open economic model that reintegrated the region into…
China’s transition to industrial capitalism
In 1976 three prominent leaders of the Maoist revolution passed away, well pampered and peacefully. The departure of Zhou Enlai, of veteran Marshall Zhu and of Mao opened the gate for reformers to step in. Who were the new leaders that entered through that door? What have been their policies? And what has been achieved in terms of institutional change?
Governing Mexico’s market democracy
As in many other Latin American countries, Mexico’s processes of liberalisation and democratisation took place almost simultaneously. The economic restructuring policy that started in the mid-1980s under president de la Madrid was extended by president Salinas and locked in in 1994 with Mexico’s entry into NAFTA, and in the following years fine-tuned by president Zedillo. Meanwhile, Mexico’s de facto state party, the PRI, gradually allowed for mo…
‘Bad governance’ under democratic rule in Taiwan
Development is commonly seen to be contingent upon good governance while good governance is the product of liberal democracy. The assumption is that development planning represents an exercise of instrumental rationality. A state that is plagued by corruption, rent seeking, or cronyism is incapable of asserting its rational agency. And where the ruling regime is thought to be unpredictable, inefficient and politically volatile, long-term investme…
From new order to new world order
Indonesia is an extreme example of neoliberal globalisation, exhibiting prominent roles for the market and private sector, accelerated opening of global markets, breakdown of national borders, increased role of international (financial and political) institutions, the reduction of subsidies, and social welfare protection programmes for the poor. There remains a state apparatus that attempts to perform its duties of law enforcement, market regulat…
Clanism and predatory capitalism
The political economy of recovery in Indonesia
Two specific questions are of particular importance. The first one concerns the very fact that virtually all observers of the Indonesian economy, whether at home or abroad, were taken by surprise when the crisis hit Indonesia. How come the crisis was not foreseen? What does it tell us about our perception and understanding of a society experiencing sustained rapid economic growth-as Indonesia indeed did until the second half of 1997?
Between globalisation and sub-national politics
More than ten years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia is still in search of her political and cultural identities, and is still in the process of rediscovering her role in the world.1 The post-Soviet transition she has endured was complicated by the fact that Russia went through a ‘double disappointment’—in both socialism and liberalism. Indeed, on the one hand, most Russians comprehend (willingly or reluctantly) that there is no …
Global neoliberalisation and violent conflict
Since the late twentieth century, Western aid policy and development thinking has been dominated by the doctrine of global neoliberalism. The policy of global neoliberalism is presented as the main recipe for development. The final chapter of this book explores the link between this global policy and the rise of new patterns of violent conflict (the socalled ‘internal’, ‘intra-state’ or simply ‘contemporary’ conflicts). The main question addresse…
Good Governance and democracy in a world of neoliberal regimes
Good Governance has become the major buzzword in aid policy and development thinking today. It even seems to have dethroned Sustainable Development as the international policymakers’ mantra. Conceived within the World Bank, the concept has been embraced by the governments of Western countries and by the IMF as both a goal and a condition of official (development) assistance. To lending countries, Good Governance is first of all yet another elemen…
‘Que se vayan todos’
Good Governance in the Era of Global Neoliberalism: Conflict and Depolitization in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa
Economic Concentration and Conglomerates in Mexico
Mexico’s economic groups are currently the most powerful of Latin America. Various indices show that Mexican conglomerates are very successful, and Cemex is the only company from the region in the top 25 MNCs from developing countries. Large Mexican companies have grown extensively with the expanded export opportunities created by NAFTA, turning Mexico’s economy into the largest in Latin America. But are Mexican conglomerates expected to survive …
Conglomerates and Economic Groups in Neoliberal Latin America
Blending Old and New in Latin American Politics
Change and continuity—it is hard to find a scholarly publication on contemporary Latin American politics that does not touch upon the coincidence of this intriguing duality. Indeed, even though democratization has advanced more than ever in the region, the traces and effects of it's political history remain prominent. For much of the twentieth century, Latin American countries had a strong state that was either controlled by some sort of authorit…
América Latina frente a China en el neoliberalismo global
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The Middle East, Russia and Latin America Facing the Rise of China: Editorial Preface
Political science (38 works) · Politics (24 works) · Economics (22 works) · Latin Americans (22 works) · Law (22 works) · Law (14 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Development economics (11 works) · International Development and Aid (11 works)