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Under the Surface: Subsea Infrastructure and Everyday Geoeconomics in the European Union

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The European Union (EU) is undergoing a geoeconomic shift driven by concerns over its global position, geopolitical tensions and the need for strategic autonomy. Scholars have studied various parts of this ‘geoeconomic turn’ aiming to secure Europe's position in the world.
Lars Gjesvik, Øyvind Svendsen
wiley   +1 more source

‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
wiley   +1 more source

[Envelope addressed to John J. Herrera - August 7, 1979]

open access: yes, 1979
League of United Latin American Citizens envelope is addressed to John J.
League of United Latin American Citizens
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Satire and Silence Under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Poverty and inequality : Latin American report, 2011; summary

open access: yes, 2011
After decades of authoritarian governments, countries of the region have managed to put democratic institutions back together, while inserting themselves into world markets, and mitigating the plights of individuals living in poverty.
Latin American Center for Rural Development (RIMISP)
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Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the 1921–1923 trade war between Norway and Portugal as a historical case for exploring business responses to deglobalization and trade disruption. Focusing on the international supply chains (ISCs) of port wine and salted and dried cod, it investigates how business actors contributed to the recoupling of ISCs after a ...
Rolv Petter Amdam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prospects for Closer Economic Relations between Latin America and Asia [PDF]

open access: yes
Regional integration such as NAFTA, MERCOSUR and FTAA have been flourishing in Latin American countries in the 1990s. In addition to these multi-countries FTAs, many bilateral FTAs have also emerged both among Latin American countries and between them ...
Akio Hosono, Shoji Nishijima
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