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“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti‐apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predominantly revolved around themes of civil rights, cross‐racial dialogue, and integration.
Ida Danewid
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La apropiación hispana de la sal indígena en la provincia de Tunja. Siglo XVI

Historia y Espacio, 2019
La sal, en el interior del Nuevo Reino de Granada, desde la época prehispánica, se había convertido en un producto indispensable para el consumo humano y para la mediación de relaciones de intercambio y reciprocidad entre los indígenas productores y ...
Blanca Ofelia Acuña Rodríguez
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Leopoldo Zea on the Role of Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic in the Philosophy of Latin American History

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 152-162, March 2026.
Abstract In one of the most influential works in 20th‐century Latin America, Leopoldo Zea draws on Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic to construct a philosophy of Latin American History from colonialism to the present. Yet his motives for organizing his work around these brief but suggestive passages from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit have not been well ...
Pavel Reichl
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Establishing Colonial Rule in a Frontier Encomienda: Chile’s Copiapó Valley under Francisco de Aguirre and His Kin, 1549–1580

Latin American Research Review
This article explores how Francisco de Aguirre used the Copiapó Valley encomienda to negotiate political power during the transition from conquest to colonial rule in northern Chile.
Francisco Garrido, Erick Figueroa
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Colonial Legacies: The Long‐Run Effects of Elites and Institutions

Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I discuss the main legacies of colonialism in current societies under the lens of early institutions and the role of elites. I address to what extent institutions contribute to understanding how colonialism shapes the present of modern societies.
Álvaro Germán Torres Mora
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Cultivating Climate Precarity: Mechanisms of Surplus Capture and Immiserizing Growth in Guatemala's Horticultural Export Sector

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, prominent development organizations have promoted market inclusion and agricultural value chain integration as pathways to rural prosperity in the Global South. Focusing upon the experiences of Indigenous Kaqchikel peasants in Guatemala's horticultural export sector, this paper offers a cautionary tale.
S. Ryan Isakson
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Producing Territories for Extractivism: Encomiendas, Estancias and Forts in the Long-Term Political Ecology of Colonial Southern Chile

Land, 2023
The aim of this article is to show that what seems natural today has a long social and environmental history, associated with the way in which territory has been socially produced.
Hugo Romero-Toledo
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The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century

The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1068-1087, November 2025.
Abstract Sustained long‐distance trade in the early modern era necessitated institutional mechanisms capable of solving three interrelated challenges: the need to mobilize an unprecedented volume of capital and to lock it in for long periods of time, ways of mitigating the principal–agent problem across continents, and methods to internalize and ...
Juan José Rivas Moreno
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Los orígenes de la crisis de 1541-1543 en la política indiana de la monarquía

Anuario de Estudios Americanos, 2005
El autor arranca del hecho de que la historiografía sobre historia del comercio con las Indias en el siglo XVI, y sobre la encomienda, han avanzado en paralelo sin tomar en consideración la relación histórica existente entre ambas realidades.
Antonio Acosta
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Corruption, economic globalisation, and resistance: Insights from the Philippine rice industry

Geographical Research, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 377-389, August 2025.
Key Insights: This article shows how competing perspectives on corruption were deployed ideologically in debates about deregulating the Philippine rice industry and resulted in a policy that benefits some groups, such as consumers, at the expense of others, particularly small‐scale farmers. Abstract Scholars have shown that narratives of corruption can
Grant W. Walton, Shanice Espiritu‐Amador, Imelda Deinla   +2 more
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