TranslatingTierra Baldía

Land, Landscape, and the Becoming of Frontier Terrain in Northwestern Ecuador

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ID2143013
AutoresDavid Kneas (University of South Carolina, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume85
Fascículo1
Páginas33-53
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2019.1617326
OpenAlexW2954047120
IdiomaES
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas25

This article analyses the creation of a remote parish in the Intag region of northwestern Ecuador in 1940 as a way to explore the articulation and enactment of tierra baldía (unclaimed land) in twentieth century Ecuador. I highlight how discourses of tierra baldía factored into the symbolic transformation of the Intag region from a remote backwater to a prized agrarian frontier, how spectres of Intag's resource potential animated a conflict between neighbouring counties, and how farmers in Intag navigated this dispute in the process of settling these terrains prior to parish formation. In moving between these registers, I approach tierra baldía as both land and landscape, drawing attention to practices of resource translation and the assorted alignments and contingences that they promote and depend upon

Archaeology · Articulation (sociology · Cartography · Frontier · Geography · Political science · Terrain · Tierra · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Latin American and Latino Studies

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