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“Los indios de esta encomienda no tienen mujeres”: fertilidad y sistemas de género frente al colapso demográfico indígena. Tres casos emblemáticos

open access: yes, 2020
Objetivo/Contexto: Este trabajo retoma los planteamientos de la historiadora Suzanne Alchon al problematizar el modelo teorico que postula las epidemias de suelo virgen como causa suficiente del co...
S. Peláez
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Leopoldo Zea on the Role of Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic in the Philosophy of Latin American History

open access: yesEuropean 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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Producing Territories for Extractivism: Encomiendas, Estancias and Forts in the Long-Term Political Ecology of Colonial Southern Chile

open access: yesLand, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Colonial Legacies: The Long‐Run Effects of Elites and Institutions

open access: yesSociology 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
wiley   +1 more source

Cultivating Climate Precarity: Mechanisms of Surplus Capture and Immiserizing Growth in Guatemala's Horticultural Export Sector

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Los orígenes de la crisis de 1541-1543 en la política indiana de la monarquía

open access: yesAnuario 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
doaj   +1 more source

The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Corruption, economic globalisation, and resistance: Insights from the Philippine rice industry

open access: yesGeographical 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evangelización e instrucción pública en el orden colonial español

open access: yesRevista Española de Educación Comparada, 2018
La ocupación de los territorios conquistados por el imperio español alcanzó mediante las prácticas de doctrina y evangelización la sustitución de unos elementos culturales por otros, esta implantación de nuevas formas de vida supuso además de la fuerza ...
Alberto Martínez Boom
doaj   +1 more source

Grassland Geopoetics: Son Jarocho and the Black Sense of Place of Plantations and Pastures

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 872-895, May 2024.
Abstract This essay considers how the grasslands of the Mexican region of El Sotavento entangle with the history of racial capitalism and with traditional Sotaventine music. Throughout this text, I argue that son Jarocho music and its poetics counterpoint racist colonial discourses making space for ways of being beyond racial capitalism.
Diego Astorga de Ita
wiley   +1 more source

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