A Latta
Biographic Data
| ID | 34187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Latta |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Latta |
| SIGNATURE | LATTA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3439-2885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture “frontiers”
Warming temperatures in the circumpolar north have led to new discussions around climate-driven frontiers for agriculture. In this paper, we situate northern food systems in Canada within the corporate food regime and settler colonialism, and contend that an expansion of the conventional, industrial agriculture paradigm into the Canadian North would have significant socio-cultural and ecological consequences. We propose agroecology as an alternat…
Host community impacts: Learning from the families of Habitat for Humanity’s Global Villages program in El Salvador
International experiential learning (IEL) benefits from recognising the needs and experiences of Southern hosts. Working with host families and in-country partners, our study finds that contrary to the broader critiques of the colonial character of such North–South relationships, community members shared largely positive assessments and experiences with the IEL program. While recognising the larger structural tensions in North–South engagement, w…
The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives - by Gómez-Barris, Macarena
Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning From the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy
States’ increasing recognition of Indigenous rights in the realm of natural resources has led to a variety of co-management arrangements and other forms of melded authority, evolving over time into increasingly complex governance relationships. This article takes up such relationships within the analytical frame of multilevel governance, seeking lessons from the experiences of Indigenous involvement in water policy in Canada’s Northwest Territori…
Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds - by De la Cadena, Marisol
Agro-Ecology and Food Sovereignty Movements in Chile: Sociospatial Practices for Alternative Peasant Futures
The agro-ecology and food sovereignty movements of southern Chile promote alternatives to the hegemonic agro-export regime that dominates the landscape. We explore these mobilizations and the strategies they employ, with a particular focus on a network of peasant women “seed curators.” The global agri-food complex relies on a flat and universalizing spatiality of land as resource and food as commodity, in which the character and fate of individua…
Megaproyectos hídricos y conflicto socio-ambiental en Latinoamérica: Perspectivas teóricas desde Gramsci y Foucault
Los megaproyectos hídricos tienen implicaciones fundamentales para las relaciones socio-ambientales en Latinoamérica. Para entender este fenómeno, el artículo plantea un marco analítico que contribuye a la creciente orientación neo-Gramsciana dentro de la ecología política, alimentándose además con las teorías sociales de Foucault. De manera exploratoria, aplicamos este marco a los casos de dos represas importantes: El Zapotillo, en México, e Hid…
Agua y megaproyectos en Latinoamérica: Una introducción
Dossier: Agua y Megaproyectos
La politización del agua en los conflictos por la megaminería: Discursos y resistencias en Chile y Argentina
Politicizing water in mining conflicts: Discourses and resistances in Chile and ArgentinaThe last two decades have seen a proliferation of socioenvironmental conflicts in relation to the expansion of mining activity in Latin America. In this context water stands out as a central axis and common denominator. The existing academic literature documents the impacts on water generated by mining activity, the social movements that have arisen in respon…
Matter, politics and the sacred: Insurgent Ecologies of Citizenship
In light of recent explorations into the interface between human agency and the agentic qualities of matter, the article revisits Michele Serres' notion of a natural contract to explore the relationships between materiality, environmental politics and citizenship. In a break from conventional renderings of environmental citizenship, the article argues that nature enters into politics alongside human subjects, through insurgent socio-ecological as…
Locating nature's citizens: Latin American ecologies of political space
Scholars of environmental citizenship have often drawn attention to the spatial mismatch between ecological systems and nation-states, arguing that citizenship needs to be scaled up to meet global environmental challenges. I argue that rethinking the scale of ecopolitical engagement requires moving beyond a simple spatial hierarchy topped by ‘the global’. Debates in human geography lead us towards a relational conception of space, where densely n…
Testing the Limits: Neoliberal Ecologies from Pinochet to Bachelet
Chile's impressive record of economic growth over the past 20 years has come with significant impacts on the environment. Though Chile's postdictatorship governments have embraced a discourse of sustainable development and created new institutions to address environmental issues, ecological degradation has largely continued unchecked. The government of Michelle Bachelet promised a series of institutional and regulatory changes that would substant…
Between Political Worlds: Indigenous Citizenship in Chile's Alto Bío Bío
The formation of a new municipality comprising the Mapuche–Pewenche communities of the Alto Bío Bío region in Chile offers a prime case for analysing the challenges involved in the exercise of meaningful indigenous citizenship at the local level. This work contributes to the literature on indigenous experiences with local government in Latin America, but its main goal is to re-examine notions of hybridization in the formation of indigenous subjec…
Matter, politics and the sacred: Insurgent Ecologies of Citizenship
In light of recent explorations into the interface between human agency and the agentic qualities of matter, the article revisits Michele Serres' notion of a natural contract to explore the relationships between materiality, environmental politics and citizenship. In a break from conventional renderings of environmental citizenship, the article argues that nature enters into politics alongside human subjects, through insurgent socio-ecological as…
Testing the Limits: Neoliberal Ecologies from Pinochet to Bachelet
Chile's impressive record of economic growth over the past 20 years has come with significant impacts on the environment. Though Chile's postdictatorship governments have embraced a discourse of sustainable development and created new institutions to address environmental issues, ecological degradation has largely continued unchecked. The government of Michelle Bachelet promised a series of institutional and regulatory changes that would substant…
La politización del agua en los conflictos por la megaminería: Discursos y resistencias en Chile y Argentina
Politicizing water in mining conflicts: Discourses and resistances in Chile and ArgentinaThe last two decades have seen a proliferation of socioenvironmental conflicts in relation to the expansion of mining activity in Latin America. In this context water stands out as a central axis and common denominator. The existing academic literature documents the impacts on water generated by mining activity, the social movements that have arisen in respon…
Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture “frontiers”
Warming temperatures in the circumpolar north have led to new discussions around climate-driven frontiers for agriculture. In this paper, we situate northern food systems in Canada within the corporate food regime and settler colonialism, and contend that an expansion of the conventional, industrial agriculture paradigm into the Canadian North would have significant socio-cultural and ecological consequences. We propose agroecology as an alternat…
Agro-Ecology and Food Sovereignty Movements in Chile: Sociospatial Practices for Alternative Peasant Futures
The agro-ecology and food sovereignty movements of southern Chile promote alternatives to the hegemonic agro-export regime that dominates the landscape. We explore these mobilizations and the strategies they employ, with a particular focus on a network of peasant women “seed curators.” The global agri-food complex relies on a flat and universalizing spatiality of land as resource and food as commodity, in which the character and fate of individua…
Locating nature's citizens: Latin American ecologies of political space
Scholars of environmental citizenship have often drawn attention to the spatial mismatch between ecological systems and nation-states, arguing that citizenship needs to be scaled up to meet global environmental challenges. I argue that rethinking the scale of ecopolitical engagement requires moving beyond a simple spatial hierarchy topped by ‘the global’. Debates in human geography lead us towards a relational conception of space, where densely n…
Between Political Worlds: Indigenous Citizenship in Chile's Alto Bío Bío
The formation of a new municipality comprising the Mapuche–Pewenche communities of the Alto Bío Bío region in Chile offers a prime case for analysing the challenges involved in the exercise of meaningful indigenous citizenship at the local level. This work contributes to the literature on indigenous experiences with local government in Latin America, but its main goal is to re-examine notions of hybridization in the formation of indigenous subjec…
Between Political Worlds: Indigenous Citizenship in Chile's Alto Bío Bío
The formation of a new municipality comprising the Mapuche–Pewenche communities of the Alto Bío Bío region in Chile offers a prime case for analysing the challenges involved in the exercise of meaningful indigenous citizenship at the local level. This work contributes to the literature on indigenous experiences with local government in Latin America, but its main goal is to re-examine notions of hybridization in the formation of indigenous subjec…
Testing the Limits: Neoliberal Ecologies from Pinochet to Bachelet
Chile's impressive record of economic growth over the past 20 years has come with significant impacts on the environment. Though Chile's postdictatorship governments have embraced a discourse of sustainable development and created new institutions to address environmental issues, ecological degradation has largely continued unchecked. The government of Michelle Bachelet promised a series of institutional and regulatory changes that would substant…
Locating nature's citizens: Latin American ecologies of political space
Scholars of environmental citizenship have often drawn attention to the spatial mismatch between ecological systems and nation-states, arguing that citizenship needs to be scaled up to meet global environmental challenges. I argue that rethinking the scale of ecopolitical engagement requires moving beyond a simple spatial hierarchy topped by ‘the global’. Debates in human geography lead us towards a relational conception of space, where densely n…
Megaproyectos hídricos y conflicto socio-ambiental en Latinoamérica: Perspectivas teóricas desde Gramsci y Foucault
Los megaproyectos hídricos tienen implicaciones fundamentales para las relaciones socio-ambientales en Latinoamérica. Para entender este fenómeno, el artículo plantea un marco analítico que contribuye a la creciente orientación neo-Gramsciana dentro de la ecología política, alimentándose además con las teorías sociales de Foucault. De manera exploratoria, aplicamos este marco a los casos de dos represas importantes: El Zapotillo, en México, e Hid…
Agua y megaproyectos en Latinoamérica: Una introducción
Dossier: Agua y Megaproyectos
La politización del agua en los conflictos por la megaminería: Discursos y resistencias en Chile y Argentina
Politicizing water in mining conflicts: Discourses and resistances in Chile and ArgentinaThe last two decades have seen a proliferation of socioenvironmental conflicts in relation to the expansion of mining activity in Latin America. In this context water stands out as a central axis and common denominator. The existing academic literature documents the impacts on water generated by mining activity, the social movements that have arisen in respon…
Matter, politics and the sacred: Insurgent Ecologies of Citizenship
In light of recent explorations into the interface between human agency and the agentic qualities of matter, the article revisits Michele Serres' notion of a natural contract to explore the relationships between materiality, environmental politics and citizenship. In a break from conventional renderings of environmental citizenship, the article argues that nature enters into politics alongside human subjects, through insurgent socio-ecological as…
Agro-Ecology and Food Sovereignty Movements in Chile: Sociospatial Practices for Alternative Peasant Futures
The agro-ecology and food sovereignty movements of southern Chile promote alternatives to the hegemonic agro-export regime that dominates the landscape. We explore these mobilizations and the strategies they employ, with a particular focus on a network of peasant women “seed curators.” The global agri-food complex relies on a flat and universalizing spatiality of land as resource and food as commodity, in which the character and fate of individua…
Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds - by De la Cadena, Marisol
Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning From the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy
States’ increasing recognition of Indigenous rights in the realm of natural resources has led to a variety of co-management arrangements and other forms of melded authority, evolving over time into increasingly complex governance relationships. This article takes up such relationships within the analytical frame of multilevel governance, seeking lessons from the experiences of Indigenous involvement in water policy in Canada’s Northwest Territori…
The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives - by Gómez-Barris, Macarena
Host community impacts: Learning from the families of Habitat for Humanity’s Global Villages program in El Salvador
International experiential learning (IEL) benefits from recognising the needs and experiences of Southern hosts. Working with host families and in-country partners, our study finds that contrary to the broader critiques of the colonial character of such North–South relationships, community members shared largely positive assessments and experiences with the IEL program. While recognising the larger structural tensions in North–South engagement, w…
Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture “frontiers”
Warming temperatures in the circumpolar north have led to new discussions around climate-driven frontiers for agriculture. In this paper, we situate northern food systems in Canada within the corporate food regime and settler colonialism, and contend that an expansion of the conventional, industrial agriculture paradigm into the Canadian North would have significant socio-cultural and ecological consequences. We propose agroecology as an alternat…
Political science (11 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Law (4 works)