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Along the Silenced Footsteps of Latin American Pastoralists: From Mexico to Argentina, a Journey Through Pastoral Systems in Latin America

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Pastoralism worldwide faces a complex landscape of increased pressures and exclusion. Beyond ecological and economic challenges, pastoralists suffer eroding cultural identity, limited generational renewal, and political marginalization. Yet pastoral livelihoods are increasingly recognized as stewards of sustainable futures and amongst the best
Greta Semplici, Pablo Manzano
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Donana y la fuerza de una mujer quilombola

Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS - REVELL
En este trabajo nos enfocamos en las realidades quilombolas de la novela Arado Torcido (2022), de Itamar Vieira Júnior (1978), a partir de las vicisitudes de la protagonista Donana.
Gracineia dos Santos Araújo
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Accelerating Just Energy Transitions in Brazil: Pathways for Social Development

Latin American Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This critical article analyzes energy poverty in Brazil from the theoretical perspective of distributive justice, proposing the implementation of a new social regulation called Contribution to Social Development. The goal is to support the process of a just energy transition leading to a broader debate on energy planning and social issues ...
Marcio Giannini Pereira, Harriet Thomson, Neilton Fidelis da Silva, Maria Luiza de M. Galvão, Dannyelle de Souza Nunes Vasconcelos, Jamila Lorena de Freitas Pereira Brasil   +5 more
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The Farm Workforce Modernization Act: Finding Common Ground at the Crossroads of Immigration and Labor Policy

Rural Sociology, Volume 91, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This case study of the 2019 Farm Workforce Modernization Act explains how immigration policy is framed and how compromise is generated among legislators and interest groups with conflicting goals. This research relies on a content analysis of publicly available primary documents dating from 2019 to 2020, and a qualitative survey of 20 ...
Margaret Gray, Julie C. Keller, Molly Graver   +2 more
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La medicalización de la justicia en Antioquia (1892-1914): marginalización del conocimiento técnico desde un caso de injusticia epistémica

HISTOReLo: Revista de Historia Regional y Local
La historiografía sobre la medicalización de la justicia en Antioquia puede entenderse como un caso de injusticia epistémica, en tanto tiende a marginalizar el conocimiento técnico en el contexto judicial. Los estudios históricos sobre la medicalización
María Alejandra Puerta-Olaya, Yair José Sánchez-Negrette, María Camila Salinas-Castillo   +2 more
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SOIL FORENSICS: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 753-778, November 2025.
ABSTRACT As Colombia attempted to achieve peace, the city of Medellín aimed to move beyond its violent past, breaking ground on ambitious green development projects to bring parks and infrastructure to the city's most peripheral neighborhoods. But these projects threatened to evict local residents, as city planners deployed maps of soils at risk of ...
MEGHAN L. MORRIS
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Escribir en comunidad: Construcción de relaciones y responsabilidad en la producción de conocimiento

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 447-465, September 2025.
ABSTRACT As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and
Jordi Armani Rivera Prince, Emily M. Blackwood, Madeleine Landrum, Emily B. P. Milton, Elizabeth L. Rodgers, Monica Barnes, Elizabeth Chin, Christa Craven, Kristina Douglass, María José Figuerero Torres, María A. Gutiérrez, Sarah Herr, Lisa Hodgetts, Kirk A. Maasch, Kylie E. Quave, Danilyn Rutherford, Daniel H. Sandweiss   +16 more
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Obtener el reconocimiento de la libertad: consideraciones generales acerca de los litigios iniciados por esclavos y esclavas de origen africano en la Audiencia Episcopal de Santiago (Chile, siglos XVII-XVIII)

Historia y Sociedad, 2023
el artículo contribuyó a los estudios sobre los usos de la justicia eclesiástica por parte de esclavos y esclavas de origen africano, tomando el caso de Santiago de Chile entre los siglos XVII y XVIII. Específi camente, develó los mecanismos de decisión
Alejandra Fuentes-González
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When “symbolic” policy is anything but: Policy design and feedbacks from California's human right to water law

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 701-722, August 2025.
Abstract Despite the reality that advocates frequently expend significant resources to pass symbolic policies, this policy design has often been neglected by policy studies scholarship. We combine policy design and policy feedback theory to examine this oft overlooked policy design in practice using the case of California's human right to water law ...
Jenny Linder Rempel, Kristin Babson Dobbin   +1 more
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Landowners Meet Drug Traffickers: Coercive Networks and Violence in Rural Colombia

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 1402-1425, July 2025.
Abstract The transport of drugs and the flow of drug proceeds have a major impact on the social and economic configuration of the rural areas affected by them. Though this is widely acknowledged, the impact of illicit economies on agrarian social conflicts remains unclear. Using the case of the marijuana trade in the agrarian societies of the Magdalena
Luis David Castillo Rojas, Benjamin Lévy   +1 more
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