An infrastructure of care
Mapping the jaguar corridor and urbanisation processes in the Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11168203 |
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| Authors | Juana Salcedo (0009-0001-2037-3846, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Landscape Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-6397 • E-ISSN: 1469-9710 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01426397.2025.2526576 |
| OpenAlex | W4413471082 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
The Jaguar Corridor Initiative is a large-scale landscape connectivity project that envisages a continuous territory from Argentina to Mexico to prevent the jaguar’s extinction. The initiative has been largely unknown to urban and landscape architecture researchers. I address this gap through a cartography that renders visible the intertwinements between the Jaguar Corridor and urbanisation processes. The cartography reveals the corridor is a stronghold against urbanisation while nevertheless connected to urban life, and a contested territory in friction with the socio-ecological flows of urbanisation where Indigenous communities, peasants, and other marginalised populations struggle for environmental justice. I reinterpret the corridor as an infrastructure of care, underscoring that cultivating a landscape for the sustenance of human and more-than-human lives is a deeply collective and political endeavour embedded in power relations that define how the corridor is shaped and cared for, and whose lives are enhanced or diminished through this process
Biology · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Jaguar · Regional science · Urbanization · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Environmental Science · Forest Management and Policy · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
| Highly cited | No |
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