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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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Evaluación de los efectos de la urbanización en los arroyos de Tierra del Fuego [PDF]
, 2017 We set out to understand how urbanization affects streams in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. Paired ttestsand linear regressions were used to compare physico-chemical stream habitat variables (i.e., temperature,turbidity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen and pH)
Anderson, Christopher Brian +3 more
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Evaluating the Quality of Corruption Surveys for Comparative Research and Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue S1, Page 1144-1172, January 2026.ABSTRACT Reliable and accurate corruption measurement is crucial for effective governance, evidence‐based policymaking, and the monitoring of global goals such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While perception‐based corruption metrics are widely used, they face criticism due to conceptual ambiguities and vulnerability to ...
Giulia Mugellini +2 more
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Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 12, Issue 1, Page 1-204, 2016., 2016 This Campbell systematic review assesses the effectiveness of community monitoring interventions in reducing corruption. The review summarises findings from 15 studies, of which seven are from Asia, six from Africa and two from Latin America. Community monitoring interventions can reduce corruption.
Ezequiel Molina +4 more
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Conflict, Claim and Contradiction in the New Indigenous State of Bolivia [PDF]
, 2012 Recent conflict between indigenous people and a self-styled indigenous state in Bolivia has brought to the fore some of the paradoxes and contradictions within the concept of indigeneity itself. The contemporary politics of state sponsored indigeneity in
Canessa, A
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the different expressions of authenticity, fidelity, and genuineness surrounding the Mexican culinary scene in New York. On the one hand, self‐identified Mexicans express sensory and memory nostalgia during the production and consumption of foods they recognize as their own.
Axel G. Elías Jiménez
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Changes in Latin American and Caribbean Household Structure Amidst Fertility Decline, 1960–2020
Studies in Family Planning, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 135-160, March 2025.Abstract Over the past six decades, significant demographic and familial changes, including rapid fertility decline, have occurred in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), impacting household structure and formation. We document trends in and changes to household size and composition in the region, leveraging 144 country‐year samples from census and ...
Federica Becca +2 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 352-363, December 2024.Abstract This paper explores selective aspects of the historical processes of organization of the kichwa peasantry in the Andes of Ecuador. Based on the analysis of two representative cases of confrontation between peasants and landowners over access to land in the province of Chimborazo, it discusses the relevance of the concept of “gamonalismo” as ...
Víctor Bretón
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Análisis socioeconómico preliminar de tres territorios de Bosque Modelo: - Chiquitano, BO - Jujuy, AR - Araucarias de Alto Malleco, CL [PDF]
, 2014 57 pagesThis paper presents a diagnosis of the existing information, quantitative and qualitative, on the main activities in the selected landscapes in terms of employment, water situation and land use , in three Model Forests in Bolivia, Argentina and ...
Cuevas, Melissa, Fallot, Abigaïl
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Estado nutricional y factores de riesgo cardiovascular en mujeres mapuche huilliche de la Provincia de Osorno [PDF]
, 2012 Objective: In order to make available disaggregated information on nutritional state and cardiovascular risk factors among Mapuche Huilliche women, and establish a baseline for future studies and initiatives, a statistically representative sample of ...
Bustos, María Paz +5 more
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