Pablo Alonso González
Biographic Data
| ID | 85088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Alonso González |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo Alonso |
| FAMILY NAME | González |
| SIGNATURE | GONZÁLEZ P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5964-0489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Multispecies governance beyond post-politics: Territorial plurality and agonistic coexistence in human-cat conflicts
Conflicts over free-roaming cats are often presented as technical disputes about management tools. This article argues that they are rooted in substantial disagreements about cats, territories, and obligations while routed through a governance apparatus that is not designed to host them. Drawing on scholarship in political ecology, STS, environmental humanities, and human–animal studies, and informed by ongoing research in the Canary Islands, we …
Natural wine as a cultural field: Consumers, professionals and symbolic struggles over authenticity and regulation
Despite the lack of an official and widely agreed definition, “natural wine” has given rise to a transnational movement and a distinctive market segment. Drawing on Bourdieu’s notion of cultural fields, recent research has conceptualized natural wine as an emerging field shaped by producers and cultural intermediaries; however, the role of consumers in these symbolic struggles remains underexplored. This article asks how symbolic valuations of na…
The Nine Lives of Trap-Neuter-Return in the Canary Islands
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is widely promoted as a humane technique for managing free-roaming cats. Yet its legitimacy remains fiercely disputed. Drawing on four months of participant observation and two years of follow-up fieldwork in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), this article re-situates TNR as an assemblage whose coherence is always provisional. We use Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to trace the translations that align heterogeneous actors, whil…
Manufacturing alterity: Pastoralists, race and identity in the Canary Islands
This article examines how the Canarian shepherd functions as a site of settler colonial elimination and heritage commodification. Pastoralists in the Canary Islands have long been produced as an ‘internal other’ within Spanish nation-building. In reconstructing the genealogy of that figure from the conquest to the present, we show how colonial and postcolonial knowledge technologies – cartography, chronicles, legislation, racial science, folklore…
Uncorked: Negotiating Science and Belief in the Natural Wine Movement
Wine is alive: The vitalist and theological roots of natural wine in 19th and 20th century Spain
This paper explores the intersection of vitalism, theology, and science in 19th and 20th century Spanish winemaking, focusing on the influential figures of Lucio Bascuñana and Eduardo Vitoria. Both men were engaged in the complex debate over the nature of wine, particularly regarding its production and the use of additives during a period marked by industrialization and scientific advancement, but also by a conflict between natural and artificial…
Fictio Juris and the legal construction of wine: Natural vs. artificial in Spanish law (1860–1932)
This paper explores the development of Spanish wine legislation between 1860 and 1932, focusing on the concept of fictio juris, a legal fiction that defines wine as a product derived solely from grape fermentation while permitting additives that alter its composition. The period covers Spain’s transformation from legitimizing artificial wines to their prohibition, then moving towards more nuanced debates about permissible additives. By analyzing …
The adulteration of natural wine and the emergence of artifice: Perceptions of wine in XIX century Spain
This paper examines the contested evolution of the concepts of natural and artificial wine in Spain with a focus in a period of profound socio-economic transformation between 1850 and 1900. It explores how wine adulteration, initially understood in economic and geographical terms, evolved into a public health and regulatory concern as industrial winemaking expanded. The study highlights the governmentality tensions that emerged between traditiona…
Sensory-directed approach to explore cider typicity: The case of ciders from the Canary Islands (Spain)
Purpose The main aim of this study is to characterise and identify specific chemo-sensory profiles of ciders from the Canary Islands (Spain). Design/methodology/approach Commercial samples of Canary ciders were compared to ciders from the Basque Country and Asturias. In total, 18 samples were studied, six for each region. The analysis comprised their sensory profiling and chemical characterisation of their polyphenolic profile, volatile compositi…
The natural wine phenomenon and the promise of sustainability: Institutionalization or radicalization
Natural wine is produced with organic grapes without the use of additives. As a social phenomenon, it comprises rural winemakers and urban consumers interconnected by a vibrant global community of distributors, bloggers, experts, and associations. Despite its continuous growth since the early 2000s, the movement has sparked global public interest since the French recognition of the vin méthode nature certification in 2020. Here we delineate the e…
The Unethical Enterprise of the Past: Lessons from the Collapse of Archaeological Heritage Management in Spain
El valor social como factor estratégico en la gestión patrimonial y turística: El caso del sitio patrimonio de la humanidad Cueva de Altamira (España)
The social dimension of value has become a cornerstone of the debate about tourism conservation, management and sustainability in relation to cultural heritage. This article examines the role of social value in heritage management and tourism promotion through the case of the Altamira Cave as a UNESCO World Heritage site by analysing the perspectives of non-expert actors in heritage management. To do this, two surveys were conducted, one aimed at…
Class or Community? Marx, the Russian Commune, and Contemporary Critical Theory
This article explores the relationship between class and community through a discussion of peasant struggles and the commune during the Russian Revolution. Doing so, we show how Marx's class-oriented reflections on community can help us to understand the role that the peasantry plays (or should play) in processes of social transformation. This enables us, first, to understand the relevance of communal forms for Marx, who believed that communitari…
Vino de Tea (pine heartwood wine) from La Palma (Spain): Ethnographic and Physic-Chemical Characterization of a Unique Fermented Product
This paper presents the results of a novel study of Vino de Tea (pine heartwood wine) from the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain). The aim is to investigate its differential characteristics and contribute to typifying it within the Denomination of Origin 'Wines of La Palma'. The analysis is based on a mixed approach combining a qualitative ethnographic approach (22 interviews) and quantitative physic-chemical methods in a sample of 16 win…
Equality and hierarchy, sovereignty and multiculturalism: The heritagisation of Raizals in Santa Catalina (Colombia)
Santa Catalina is a Caribbean island in the Colombian archipelago of Providencia y San Andrés, which has been at the center of a recent territorial dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua that has made the islands central to the geostrategic agenda of the Colombian state in its attempt to reaffirm political alliances with the United States. Within this context, our investigation explores recent processes of archaeological research, heritagisation …
Casas y cambio cultural: Metodología interdisciplinar para el estudio del espacio construido en la España rural contemporánea
Este trabajo presenta una propuesta metodológica para el estudio interdisciplinar de las transformaciones recientes de la arquitectura doméstica en zonas rurales del estado español. Las casas constituyen un repositorio clave en las biografías y la memoria cultural de las comunidades que habitan estos territorios, funcionando como dispositivos destacados en la configuración de las identidades personales, familiares y comunitarias. Por ello, son un…
Taste and Knowledge: The Social Construction of Quality in the Organic Wine Market
La vuelta al terroir: El despertar de la cultura del vino en España
Exploramos, en el presente artículo, el surgimiento y debate actual en torno al movimiento terroirista en España desde la perspectiva de los movimientos sociales y rurales. La transformación de la escena vitivinícola española se ha convertido en un fenómeno objeto de estudio desde el ámbito académico, político y social: España cuenta con la mayor superficie de viñedos del mundo, el mayor volumen de exportación y el precio medio de venta de litro …
Sustainable tourism and social value at World Heritage Sites: Towards a conservation plan for Altamira, Spain
Introduction: Heritage and Revolution - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
If a revolution is taken to be a decisive break with the past, how can there be a heritage of revolution? Conversely, how does any revolution affect tangible and intangible heritage, as well as shifting conceptions of heritage? In this introduction to four papers dedicated to the theme of ‘Heritage and Revolution’, we provide an overview of changing conceptualizations of both ideas and how they have shaped each other since the French Revolution f…
Arqueología de la ruptura colonial: Mouros, chullpas, gentiles y abuelos en España, Bolivia y Chile en perspectiva comparada
This paper analyzes the impact of colonialism on the ways in which subaltern populationsestablish relations of sameness and otherness with their ancestors and with archaeologicalvestiges in their surroundings. From a perspective that questions the dominant dichotomousand structural interpretation that conceived the logic of otherness as a product of intrinsiccommunity dynamics, this study reveals the central role of historically specific powerrel…
Respuesta a Los Comentarios Del Artículo: En Contra Del Populismo Reaccionario: Hacia Una Nueva Arqueología Pública
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Cuban Cultural Heritage: A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation
La ambivalencia del paisaje: De la genealogía a la arqueología agraria
En el mundo clsico y medieval, tanto mediterrneo como germnico, el paisaje se refera a las relaciones inmanentes entre grupos humanos, sus territorios y las formas de estructurar estas relaciones. Con la ruptura que supone la modernidad y el pensamiento abstracto renacentista y cientfico, surge la dualidad del paisaje; por un lado como realidad, por otro como la representacin que de esa misma realidad se hace un sujeto ajeno a ella. Pretendemos c…
The 'terroirist' social movement: The reawakening of wine culture in Spain
Against reactionary populism: Towards a New Public Archaeology
From Brazil to the United Kingdom, 2016 was a critical year in global politics. Heritage, ethics and the way that archaeologists relate to the public were and will all be affected, and it is time to reflect critically on the phenomenon of 'reactionary populism' and how it affects the practice and theory of archaeology. 'Reactionary populism' can be defined as a political form that is anti-liberal in terms of identity politics (e.g. multiculturali…
Industrial Heritage and Place Identity in Spain: From Monuments to Landscapes
In Spain, the birth of interest in the nation's industrial heritage dates from the 1980s and occurred alongside the process of deindustrialization. Policies concerning derelict industrial sites have shifted gradually from destruction to preservation, rehabilitation, and enhancement, and industrial heritage enhancement projects are now widespread in the country. However, a clear mismatching has arisen between institutional and academic initiatives…
An Ontological Turn in the Debate onBuen Vivir - Sumak Kawsayin Ecuador: Ideology, Knowledge, and the Common
Buen Vivir, a political paradigm at work in Bolivia and Ecuador that underpins the state and social regeneration after a prolonged and devastating period of neoliberalism, has become a hotly contested subject within academia and politics. Although it has been categorized as decolonial, post-neoliberal, and post-developmentalist, recent developments suggest that the Ecuadorian government is turning toward a highly extractivist and modernist model …
Communism and cultural heritage: The Quest for Continuity
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the theoretical genealogy and main uses of heritage in actually existing communist countries. This is performed by carrying out a critical review of Èleazar Aleksandrovič Baller’s Communism and Cultural Heritage, (1984, Progress, Moscow). The analysis of Baller’s work reveals that the logics of heritage in communist countries differed in various ways from capitalist countries, mainly because of the almost t…
ParticiPat: Exploring the Impact of Participatory Governance in the Heritage Field
This Directions piece presents the project ParticiPat: Patrimonio y participación social: propuesta metodológica y revisión crítica (ParticiPat: Heritage and Social Participation: Methodological Proposal and Critical Review). ParticiPat is a multidisciplinary and multisituated research project involving fourteen researchers from different disciplines and institutions that aims to analyze critically the ubiquitous buzzwords and practices of partic…
Marketing quality’ in the food sector: Towards a critical engagement with the ‘quality turn’ in wine
Heritage and rural gentrification in Spain: The case of Santiago Millas
Although gentrification has been mostly understood as an urban phenomenon, the permanent establishment of urban dwellers in rural areas is becoming a widespread trend across the world. Despite its relevance to postindustrial societies, rural gentrification has been largely overlooked by heritage scholars, and has been explored very little in the context of Spain. In this article, I examine the relationship between heritage and rural gentrificatio…
Sustainable tourism and social value at World Heritage Sites: Towards a conservation plan for Altamira, Spain
The 'terroirist' social movement: The reawakening of wine culture in Spain
Between Certainty and Trust: Boundary-Work and the Construction of Archaeological Epistemic Authority
The discovery of a rock art site in 2008 by an amateur archaeologist spurred a wave of public interest in archaeology in Maragatería, Spain. As new discoveries took place, alternative archaeological discourses thrived facing the inaction of institutional and academic archaeologists. A long-term study of Maragatería carried out by the author serves to explore the construction of archaeological epistemic authority in a context where various social …
The political economy of wine: How terroir and intra-sector dynamics affect land use in Spain
Managing collective symbolic capital through agro-food labelling: Strategies of local communities facing neoliberalism in Spain
Neoliberalismo corporativo y clientelismo en España: Etnografía de la financiación europea del desarrollo rural a través de un proyecto fallido
El artículo realiza un análisis etnográfico de la actual situación de crisis económica, política y social en España a partir del estudio de caso de un Grupo de Desarrollo Rural en Asturias (España). Este grupo canaliza los fondos comunitarios LEADER a una región en proceso de decadencia económica y despoblación, intentando generar una identidad ficticia en el territorio de cara a su mercantilización a través de un proyecto de Parque Cultural de r…
Transforming ideology into heritage: A return of nation and identity in late socialist Cuba
This article explores the role of cultural heritage and museums in the materialization and spread of the new ideological and symbolic order in post-1990 late socialist Cuba. It suggests that the Cuban government has developed a new way of articulating ideology, identity and history that reflects a transition from real to symbolic wars against real and perceived external enemies. In the process of transforming ideology into heritage, the Cuban reg…
Arqueología de la ruptura colonial: Mouros, chullpas, gentiles y abuelos en España, Bolivia y Chile en perspectiva comparada
This paper analyzes the impact of colonialism on the ways in which subaltern populationsestablish relations of sameness and otherness with their ancestors and with archaeologicalvestiges in their surroundings. From a perspective that questions the dominant dichotomousand structural interpretation that conceived the logic of otherness as a product of intrinsiccommunity dynamics, this study reveals the central role of historically specific powerrel…
The Altamira controversy: Assessing the economic impact of a world heritage site for planning and tourism management
Too Little Democracy in All the Right Places: A Comment on Kelty 2017
This research was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain, through the project ParticiPat: Heritage and Social Participation for methodological proposal and critical review (HAR 2014-54869-R
Between “neodevelopmentalism” and “postdevelopmentalism”: Towards a theory of a dispersed knowledge economy in Ecuador
Despite the favourable context of the last decade, the transition to postextractivist economies grounded on alternative dynamics of accumulation has proved difficult in Latin America. As the case of Ecuador shows, macroeconomic imbalances and the changing global economy are threatening the scant advances accomplished and reinforcing the extractivist logic. Drawing on the postdevelopmentalist critique, this article examines Ecuador's Yachay projec…
Museums in revolution: Changing national narratives in revolutionary Cuba between 1959 and 1990
This paper explores the function and role of museums in revolutionary Cuba between 1959 and 1990. Drawing on a variety of hitherto unexplored archives and interviews with bureaucrats of the Cuban heritage field, the paper argues that there is a close relation between museum production, the prevailing narration of nation, internal power struggles within the regime and the changing relation with the USSR. Museums were considered primary tools for h…
Furanchos and adegas: Exploring symmetry through wine cultures in Galicia and Alentejo
This textual and visual piece exceeds the traditional paper form to explore popular winemaking and drinking cultures in Galicia and Alentejo. It does not illustrate our fieldwork, but evocates alternative geographies of production and consumption that coexist with the standard commercial and legal wine market. In our quotidian learning by doing and living, we understand symmetrically the cultures we are part of, and by extension our practice of c…
Race and ethnicity in the construction of the nation in Spain: The case of the Maragatos
Nationalism and its counterpart, modernism, are projects that involve the attempt to homogenize and incorporate the masses through the creation of a majority identity that usually leads to the classification of certain deviant groups as 'others'. In Spain, civic and ethnic nationalisms driven by the state have historically drawn on cultural and biological notions of ethnicity and race to construct a representation of the Maragatos as 'cursed peop…
A Contemporary Archaeology of Cultural Change in Rural North-Western Spain: From Traditional Domesticity to Postmodern Individualisation
The ‘Celtic-Barbarian Assemblage’: Archaeology and Cultural Memory in the Fiestas de Astures y Romanos, Astorga, Spain
The Fiestas de Astures y Romanos (The Festival of Astures and Romans) is a thriving historical re-enactment performed in the town of Astorga, in north-west Spain. The objective of our research has been to explore the complex interactions between politics, the public, and heritage management, and to evaluate their impact upon archaeology as a discipline. We draw on a participant ethnography carried out during the 2011 event. The concept of ‘Celtic…
The natural wine phenomenon and the promise of sustainability: Institutionalization or radicalization
Natural wine is produced with organic grapes without the use of additives. As a social phenomenon, it comprises rural winemakers and urban consumers interconnected by a vibrant global community of distributors, bloggers, experts, and associations. Despite its continuous growth since the early 2000s, the movement has sparked global public interest since the French recognition of the vin méthode nature certification in 2020. Here we delineate the e…
La vuelta al terroir: El despertar de la cultura del vino en España
Exploramos, en el presente artículo, el surgimiento y debate actual en torno al movimiento terroirista en España desde la perspectiva de los movimientos sociales y rurales. La transformación de la escena vitivinícola española se ha convertido en un fenómeno objeto de estudio desde el ámbito académico, político y social: España cuenta con la mayor superficie de viñedos del mundo, el mayor volumen de exportación y el precio medio de venta de litro …
Industrial Heritage and Place Identity in Spain: From Monuments to Landscapes
In Spain, the birth of interest in the nation's industrial heritage dates from the 1980s and occurred alongside the process of deindustrialization. Policies concerning derelict industrial sites have shifted gradually from destruction to preservation, rehabilitation, and enhancement, and industrial heritage enhancement projects are now widespread in the country. However, a clear mismatching has arisen between institutional and academic initiatives…
Museums in a Global World
The following conversation took place during the Critical Heritage Studies conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 6 June 2012. The initial idea and topic was suggested by Kylie Message, the session was chaired by Conal McCarthy, and the recording was transcribed by Jennifer Walklate and edited by Conal McCarthy and Jennifer Walklate
The ‘Celtic-Barbarian Assemblage’: Archaeology and Cultural Memory in the Fiestas de Astures y Romanos, Astorga, Spain
The Fiestas de Astures y Romanos (The Festival of Astures and Romans) is a thriving historical re-enactment performed in the town of Astorga, in north-west Spain. The objective of our research has been to explore the complex interactions between politics, the public, and heritage management, and to evaluate their impact upon archaeology as a discipline. We draw on a participant ethnography carried out during the 2011 event. The concept of ‘Celtic…
Flanqueando el procesualismo y post-procesualismo: Arqueología, teoría de la complejidad y la filosofía de Gilles Deleuze
The paper suggests that the politically informed complex philosophy of Gilles Deleuze can enable archaeologists to overcome the dichotomy between processualism and postprocessualism, opening the door to different kinds of archaeological thinking. His philosophy facilitates the reception and translation into the social sciences of the ideas coming from complexity theory, thanks to his realist stance and his prioritization of ontological over epist…
Construyendo el pasado, reproduciendo el presente: Identidad y arqueología en las recreaciones históricas de indígenas contra romanos en el Noroeste de España
El desarrollo del «Estado de las Autonomías» tras el restablecimiento de la democracia en España ha potenciado la proliferación de narrativas sobre el pasado que buscan legitimar las nuevas estructuras administrativas y homogeneizar sus formaciones identitarias. Esto se solapa con un creciente interés de la ciudadanía por el pasado y su escenificación en la esfera pública a través de recreaciones históricas. El estudio analiza tres recreaciones h…
Global: Biopoder y luchas en una América Latina globalizada (A. Negri y G.Cocco)
Los autores pretenden realizar una crítica al pensamiento latinoamericano sobre el desarrollo, tanto en su versión cepalina como dependentista. Otros autores, como Arturo Escobar (1996) o Aníbal Quijano (2000), han profundizado en ella abriendo nuevas perspectivas en el pensamiento crítico continental
La transición al pos-productivismo: Parques patrimoniales, parques culturales y ordenación territorial
territorios amplios y la participacin de las comunidades locales en el planeamiento. Su relevancia deriva de su potencial influencia en la configuracin macroterritorial de regiones amplias y en la articulacin de las reas protegidas tradi-Este trabajo expone los resultados de una investigacin realizada a partir del estudio palabras clave | transformaciones socioterritoriales, patrimonio, gestin territorial
From a Given to a Construct: Heritage as a commons
The transition towards a cognitive and post-industrial economy has led to the emergence of new strategies of capture of the immanent productive capacities of the social forces. Heritage entities are subject to, and also participate in, processes by which common creativity and knowledge are being harnessed by novel forms of rent and control. The objective of this paper was to show that conceiving heritage as a common situated in specific contexts …
The investigation of currently inhabited villages of medieval origin: Agrarian archaeology in Asturias (Spain)
Bombardeando patrimonio en el Campo de Tiro Militar de El Teleno (León): De la sublimación de la naturaleza a la construcción social del patrimonio cultural
Se analiza la construcción social del Campo de Tiro Militar de El Teleno como reserva natural a partir de la retórica auspiciada por el “giro ambientalista” del Ministerio de Defensa. Ante la conflictividad existente en Maragatería, esta estrategia de contención deviene en una sublimación ideológica: la posibilidad de la preservación (natural) viene dada por la reproducción necesaria de la destrucción (humana). Por su parte, las estrategias de re…
Neoliberalismo corporativo y clientelismo en España: Etnografía de la financiación europea del desarrollo rural a través de un proyecto fallido
El artículo realiza un análisis etnográfico de la actual situación de crisis económica, política y social en España a partir del estudio de caso de un Grupo de Desarrollo Rural en Asturias (España). Este grupo canaliza los fondos comunitarios LEADER a una región en proceso de decadencia económica y despoblación, intentando generar una identidad ficticia en el territorio de cara a su mercantilización a través de un proyecto de Parque Cultural de r…
Transforming ideology into heritage: A return of nation and identity in late socialist Cuba
This article explores the role of cultural heritage and museums in the materialization and spread of the new ideological and symbolic order in post-1990 late socialist Cuba. It suggests that the Cuban government has developed a new way of articulating ideology, identity and history that reflects a transition from real to symbolic wars against real and perceived external enemies. In the process of transforming ideology into heritage, the Cuban reg…
De La Representación Cultural De La Otredad a La Materialización De La Diferencia: Arqueología Contemporánea De La Domesticidad Entre Los Vaqueiros d'Alzada Y Los Maragatos (España)
Este estudio analiza procesos contemporneos de cambio cultural en dos reas rurales del
The heritage machine: The neoliberal order and the individualisation of identity in Maragatería (Spain)
Since the inception of modernity, minority and majority identities have been constructed in a twofold process involving the parallel generation of representations of difference and the obliteration of alterity, that is, of other modes of existence. The exacerbation of the modern period in the supermodern era has furthered this process, adapting it to the new forms of neoliberal and post-political governmentality. This is paralleled by a shift fro…
A Contemporary Archaeology of Cultural Change in Rural North-Western Spain: From Traditional Domesticity to Postmodern Individualisation
Managing collective symbolic capital through agro-food labelling: Strategies of local communities facing neoliberalism in Spain
Museums in revolution: Changing national narratives in revolutionary Cuba between 1959 and 1990
This paper explores the function and role of museums in revolutionary Cuba between 1959 and 1990. Drawing on a variety of hitherto unexplored archives and interviews with bureaucrats of the Cuban heritage field, the paper argues that there is a close relation between museum production, the prevailing narration of nation, internal power struggles within the regime and the changing relation with the USSR. Museums were considered primary tools for h…
Visiones Periféricas: Arqueología Contemporánea, Crítica Y Política
o artigo apresenta uma revisão crítica das ideias que foram expostas durante a sessão "Arqueologia contemporânea: A contemporaneidade do Passado e a Crítica Material do Presente?, realizada durante o VI Reunião de Teoria Arqueológica na América do Sul, em Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil, Setembro de 2012. Propõe-se aqui uma reflexão a partir da periferia, precisamente no entrecruzamento entre cultura material, capitalismo e disciplinaridade arqueológica. …
Leonese Migration and the Role of Migrants in Acculturation Processes: A Historical-ethnographic Approach to the Case of Val de San Lorenzo (León, Spain)
L’observation des migrations et de l'impact du retour des émigrés dans leurs communautés d'origine est depuis longtemps un objet d'étude dans les régions espagnoles comme les Asturies et la Galice. Bien que la région de León présente des caractériques similaires à ces deux espaces, ce processus migratoire reste largement sous-étudié dans la région. En premier lieu, cet article présente une revue de littérature des travaux consacrés aux migrations…
An Ontological Turn in the Debate onBuen Vivir - Sumak Kawsayin Ecuador: Ideology, Knowledge, and the Common
Buen Vivir, a political paradigm at work in Bolivia and Ecuador that underpins the state and social regeneration after a prolonged and devastating period of neoliberalism, has become a hotly contested subject within academia and politics. Although it has been categorized as decolonial, post-neoliberal, and post-developmentalist, recent developments suggest that the Ecuadorian government is turning toward a highly extractivist and modernist model …
The organization of commemorative space in postcolonial Cuba: From Civic Square to Square of the Revolution
This article carries out a long-term exploration of the changing forms of organizing commemorative space in postcolonial Cuba. From a non-representational and processual approach, it argues that there is a close connection between different ideologies, and the social and material organization of commemoration. Because commemorative spaces are socially constituted and embedded in power relations, this study addresses the shifting forms of connecti…
Between “neodevelopmentalism” and “postdevelopmentalism”: Towards a theory of a dispersed knowledge economy in Ecuador
Despite the favourable context of the last decade, the transition to postextractivist economies grounded on alternative dynamics of accumulation has proved difficult in Latin America. As the case of Ecuador shows, macroeconomic imbalances and the changing global economy are threatening the scant advances accomplished and reinforcing the extractivist logic. Drawing on the postdevelopmentalist critique, this article examines Ecuador's Yachay projec…
Urban space as heritage in late colonial Cuba: Classicism and dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828
Niell addresses the fascinating topic of Cuban heritage and urban change in Havana in the period of political upheaval in the Spanish empire between 1754 and 1828. While the stated objective of the
Communism and cultural heritage: The Quest for Continuity
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the theoretical genealogy and main uses of heritage in actually existing communist countries. This is performed by carrying out a critical review of Èleazar Aleksandrovič Baller’s Communism and Cultural Heritage, (1984, Progress, Moscow). The analysis of Baller’s work reveals that the logics of heritage in communist countries differed in various ways from capitalist countries, mainly because of the almost t…
Between Certainty and Trust: Boundary-Work and the Construction of Archaeological Epistemic Authority
The discovery of a rock art site in 2008 by an amateur archaeologist spurred a wave of public interest in archaeology in Maragatería, Spain. As new discoveries took place, alternative archaeological discourses thrived facing the inaction of institutional and academic archaeologists. A long-term study of Maragatería carried out by the author serves to explore the construction of archaeological epistemic authority in a context where various social …
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