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Economías inflamables en tiempos de COVID-19: La reventa de gasolina en la frontera de Venezuela-Brasil. [PDF]
J Lat Am Caribb Anthropol, 2022 Resumen La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis.
Morillo Ramos M, van Roekel E.
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Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1018-1033, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article focuses on communities that reoccupy territories affected by volcanic eruptions to extend understanding of people's social appropriation of environments exposed to natural hazards. We take as a case study three rural settlements affected by several eruptions from the Carran‐Los Venados and Puyehue‐Cordón Caulle volcanic systems ...
Francisca Vergara‐Pinto +1 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 251-260, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The literature on the recent exponential growth of the extractive industry in Latin America and beyond has documented the various processes through which this sector has been empowered to expand its frontier, as well as the strategies that affected communities employ to resist it.
Karine Vanthuyne, Marie Christine Dugal
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Mercury Rising: US–Mexican Conflict in Alexander Edouart's Blessing of the Enrequita Mine
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 540-567, June 2023., 2023 Alexander Edouart's Blessing of the Enrequita Mine of 1860 commemorates the discovery of a mercury vein in New Almaden, California. It pictures the mine's Anglo‐American administrators, its primarily Mexican miners, and industry's impact upon the landscape.
Monica Bravo
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Militias going rogue: Social dilemmas and coercive brokerage in Rio de Janeiro's urban frontier
Journal of International Development, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 478-490, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Examining Rio de Janeiro's milícias (‘militias’) through the ‘coercive brokerage’ concept can reveal how they are central to how states and markets function. By tracing their emergence through moments of political and economic rupture, this article reveals how milícias responded to the social dilemmas of marginalised populations.
Nicholas Pope
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 575-586, December 2022., 2022 Abstract When gold deposits were confirmed in a community watershed in 2005, water became a politically charged arena for anti‐mining activism. This article follows the outcomes of a 2014 Ecuadorian water law on conflicts over water provisioning. Arguments about water's material properties and social qualities were deployed by government, municipal ...
Teresa A. Velásquez
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Using interview surveys and multispecies occupancy models to inform vertebrate conservation
Conservation Biology, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2022., 2022 Abstract Species distribution data are an essential biodiversity variable requiring robust monitoring to inform wildlife conservation. Yet, such data remain inherently sparse because of the logistical challenges of monitoring biodiversity across broad geographic extents.
Rajeev Pillay +6 more
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La economía ilegal del oro en el Perú: Impacto socioeconómico
Pensamiento Crítico, 2014 El artículo analiza los principales desarrollos operados en el mercado aurífero nacional en lo que va del presente siglo. En particular, se detiene en los procesos de desconcentración en la producción y exportación de este metal ocurridos en medio del ...
Víctor Torres Cuzcano
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Discovering learning processes using inductive miner: A case study with learning management systems (LMSs) [PDF]
, 2018 Resumen tomado de la publicaciónDescubriendo procesos de aprendizaje aplicando Inductive Miner: un estudio de caso en Learning Management Systems (LMSs).
Bogarín Vega, Alejandro +2 more
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Minería del platino y el oro en Chocó: pobreza, riqueza natural e informalidad
Revista de Economía Institucional, 2019 En el departamento de Chocó, Colombia, está la principal extracción aluvial de metal del platino en América Latina teniendo al oro como metal asociado. Dichos metales son explotados por organizaciones artesanales e informales de pequeña escala.
Juan Sebastián Lara Rodríguez +2 more
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