Claudia Leal

Biographic Data

ID3635947
NAMEClaudia Leal
GIVEN NAMESClaudia
FAMILY NAMELeal
SIGNATURELEAL C
AFFILIATIONSUniversidad de los Andes
ORCID0000-0002-8180-5825
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Notes from the Icehouse: An Invitation to Strengthen the Global Network of Environmental History

    Open AccessClaudia LealARTICLEGlobal Environment2025

    This article was published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Porous Conservation: The Complex History of Residents in National Parks in Latin America

    Emily Wakild, Frederico Freitas et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2025References: 17

    This article analyzes the changing relations between national parks and people in Latin America between the 1930s and the present. In this region, conservation policies initially showed flexibility, eventually adopted a restrictive model but for the most part failed to enforce it, and, after political struggles to expand rights and benefits, developed alternative conservation initiatives. Rather than fortresses, these historical eras demonstrate …

  • Before Biodiversity: Trajectories of National Parks in Latin America (1930s-1980s)

    Open AccessF Freitas, Claudia María Leal León et al.ARTICLELatin American Research Review2024Cited by: 2References: 30

    Almost a century ago, long before biodiversity expressed a scientific value for nature, Latin American countries began establishing national parks. Today, they represent over 6 percent of Latin America's landmass. By considering national park creation across a broad regional span and six crucial decades, this article explains a mode of state formation focused on caring for nature instead of just exploiting it. It examines how national parks expan…

  • When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories

    Open AccessClaudia María Leal León, Claudia LealARTICLEConservation and Society2023

    Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia and University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]

  • From the globe to the planet? New challenges of global and environmental history

    Antoine Acker, Laurent Warlouzet et al.ARTICLEMonde(s2022

  • Breve historia de los parques nacionales de Colombia, 1948-2003

    Open AccessClaudia María Leal León, Claudia LealARTICLENaturaleza y Sociedad Desafíos…2022

    Este artículo presenta una historia de los parques nacionales colombianos desde su inicio en 1948 hasta principios del presente siglo. Al desentrañar el pasado de la conservación, muestra cómo se formó el sistema de parques y revela que el actual énfasis en la conservación de la biodiversidad es relativamente reciente. En sus inicios la creación de áreas protegidas fue errática e impulsada por motivos variopintos que incluían la investigación cie…

  • Africa and the Americas in the Columbian Exchange: An Interview with Judith Carney

    Open AccessClaudia Leal, Shawn Van Ausdal et al.ARTICLEHistoria Ambiental Latinoamericana…2020

    Africa and the Americas in the Columbian Exchange: an Interview with Judith Carney

  • Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of Covid-19

    Open AccessPeter S Alagona, Peter Alagona et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental History2020Cited by: 2References: 11

  • A Living Past

    John Soluri, Claudia Leal et al.BOOKA Living Past2018

    Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date synthe…

  • A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

    Open AccessJohn Soluri, Claudia Leal et al.BOOKA Living Past2018

  • From Threatening to Threatened Jungles

    Claudia LealCHAPTERA Living Past2018

  • A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

    John Soluri, Claudia Leal et al.BOOKA Living Past2018

  • Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

    Claudia Leal, John Soluri et al.BOOKA Living Past2018

  • Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia

    Claudia LealBOOKLandscapes of Freedom2018

  • The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics

    Claudia María Leal León, Claudia LealARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2018

    Book Review| August 01 2018 The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Farnsworth-Alvear, Ann, Palacios, Marco, and Gómez López, Ana María. Latin America Readers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. Photographs. Plates. Maps. Figures. Notes. Index. xiv, 634 pp. Paper, $29.95. Claudia Leal Claudia Leal Universidad de los Andes Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…

  • The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation

    Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg, Claudia María Leal León et al.BOOKNature State2017

  • Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation

    Claudia Leal, Emily Wakild et al.BOOKNature State2017

  • Oh, NO

    Claudia María Leal León, Claudia LealARTICLEEnvironmental History2017References: 2

    Previous articleNext article FreeReflections CollectionOh, NO!Claudia LealClaudia Leal Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThat tiny plane made me shiver. Yet as soon as we took off on that sunny morning in April 2016, I forgot about the people who have died in accidents traveling to and from …

  • School-based sexuality education in Portugal: Strengths and weaknesses

    Ana Cristina Rocha, Claudia Leal et al.ARTICLESex Education2016

    Portugal, like many other countries, faces obstacles regarding school-based sexuality education. This paper explores Portuguese schools’ approaches to implementing sexuality education at a local level, and provides a critical analysis of potential strengths and weaknesses. Documents related to sexuality education in a convenience sample of 89 schools were analysed and findings confirm both the results of the few existing Portuguese studies on the…

  • Conservation Memories: Vicissitudes of a Biodiversity Conservation Project in the Rainforests of Colombia, 1992-1998

    Claudia María Leal León, Claudia LealARTICLEEnvironmental History2015Cited by: 4

    Based primarily on personal memories and conversations with participants, this article discusses a turning point in the long history of nature conservation as it played out in one of the biodiversity hot spots of South America. In the mid-1990s, after the Earth Summit in Rio, conservation initiatives moved beyond protected areas and called for the participation of local communities. Proyecto Biopacífico, the first biodiversity conservation projec…

  • Comunidades negras en el Pacífico colombiano: Innovaciones y dinámicas étnicas

    Claudia María Leal León, Claudia LealARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2009

    Of the studies that grew out of the 1990s redefinition of Latin American nations as multicultural, most focus on the struggles of indigenous groups and the extension of their rights. Odile Hoffmann’s insightful book centers on black people, bringing together the literature on multiculturalism with that on blackness and race relations. Colombia’s 1991 constitution and the legislation that followed stands out in the Latin American context for conce…

  • Disputas por tagua y minas: Recursos naturales y propiedad territorial en el Pacífico colombiano, 1870-1930

    Open AccessClaudia María Leal León, Claudia LealARTICLERevista Colombiana de Antropología2008Cited by: 3References: 4

    En el Pacífico colombiano no hubo fuertes disputas por la tierra en las últimas décadas del siglo diecinueve y las primeras del veinte, como sucedió en otras partes de Colombia, pero sí hubo conflictos territoriales. Estos estuvieron centrados en el acceso a recursos naturales considerados valiosos: semillas de palma de tagua, oro y platino. Al estudiar estos conflictos este artículo ayuda a comprender por qué la mayoría de la región mantuvo su c…

  • Recordando a Saturio. Memorias del racismo en el Chocó (Colombia)

    Open AccessClaudia María Leal León, Claudia LealARTICLERevista de Estudios Sociales2007

    Este artículo analiza cómo se ha construído parte de la memoria sobre Manuel Saturio Valencia, fi gura insigne del Chocó, departamento que representa lo negro en Colombia. Valencia fue un hombre negro que llegó a ser juez en medio de una sociedad de mayoría negra, pero dominada por una pequeña elite blanca. En 1907 fue fusilado tras haber sido hallado culpable de tratar de incendiar su ciudad. Entre 1953 y 1992 tres de los más destacados intelect…

  • Un mito republicano de armonía racial: Raza y patriotismo en Colombia, 1820-1812

    Open AccessMarixa Lasso, Marcela Echeverri et al.ARTICLERevista de Estudios Sociales2007Cited by: 4

    El artículo sostiene que la ideología nacionalista de armonía e igualdad racial -lo que los académicos contemporáneos han llamado el mito de democracia racial - surgió durante las guerras anticoloniales hispanoamericanas de principios del siglo XIX. Factores como la participación de los negros y mulatos en el ejército patriota, el miedo de la elite a la guerra de razas y la poderosa ideología nacionalista que surgió durante las guerras, llevaron …

  • Introduction to Colombia

    Claudia María Leal León, Claudia Leal et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Latin…2003Cited by: 1