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Abstract Introduction Scaling ecological restoration in the Amazon requires a reliable supply of native planting stock, yet nursery environments can strongly shape seedling phenotypes and species‐specific guidance remains limited. For late‐successional tropical trees, understanding how manageable nursery conditions coordinate growth and biomass ...
Cleyton Silva de Araújo +5 more
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Rethinking EU environmental law: Towards the ecologisation of the European legal order
Abstract This article critically examines the structural limitations of the EU's environmental legal framework in the context of the current ecological crisis and explores the potential transition towards an ecocentric paradigm. While the EU has developed one of the most advanced environmental regulatory systems globally, its effectiveness remains ...
Susana Borràs‐Pentinat
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ABSTRACT This article examines why the Kurdish Freedom Movement has adopted ecological struggle as a foundational pillar in its politics of decolonisation and the reclamation of autonomy. Framed within the context of colonial and ecocidal developmentalism, the research analyses how policies initiated during the Ottoman Empire and perpetuated by Turkish
Necmettin Türk
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Feeling Survivance: Indigenous Women, Qualia, and Clothing in Highland Guatemala
ABSTRACT The article uses qualia—sensuous terms—to analyze talk about Indigenous women's clothing change in highland Guatemala, allowing scholars to access Indigenous ontologies and stories of survivance. People in Kaqchikel communities talk about young women's disuse of Indigenous clothing as a response to being “too hot” or having bellies that are ...
Joyce N. Bennett
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Minimizing extractivism through 3D printing with law and policy support
The concept of ‘extractivism’ refers to the mindset and processes that facilitate for-profit large-scale exploitation of natural resources. Extractivism has a strong connection with how the markets work in this era of factory mass-production.
Vesala, Juha +10 more
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ABSTRACT This article addresses the issue of territory in Abya Yala/Afro/Latin America from a decolonial perspective and through the links and contradictions between the processes we call borderisation and multi or trans‐territorialisation, emphasising, in this case, the multiplicity of territory as an instrument of struggle and re‐existence, where ...
Rogério Haesbaert
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Architecture as the practice of accountability: extractivism, externalities and alternatives [PDF]
This paper explores architecture's relations with extractivism, drawing on both recent scholarship and practical examples to seek new modes of action which disentangle those relations and move towards accountability.
Powis, A.
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The Geographies of Latin American Social Movements Are More Than Just Territories in Resistance
ABSTRACT This article analyses social activism in Latin America in the light of its recent transformations, with an emphasis on the interactions between movements and political institutions. Based on a critical review of geographical literature, the authors argue that although the concept of territory remains relevant, it is not enough to understand ...
Juliana Nunes Rodrigues +1 more
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How might the creation of digital research infrastructure for preserving archival materials in Latin America resemble the infrastructure of extractivism?
Amanda M. Smith
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Geography in the World Part 4: Towards Latin American Dialogues
ABSTRACT This fourth instalment of Geography in the World (GitW) aims to deepen engagement with geographical knowledge produced outside the Anglophone core—specifically, in Latin America—while reflecting on the practical challenges involved in doing so.
Sam Halvorsen +5 more
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