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2025-06-06T17:23:48+00:00

Movimientos socioterritoriales y acaparamiento del territorio en Brasil

2025-06-06T17:26:22+00:00

Territorial control strategies for wind energy production in the Brazilian Northeast

2025-06-06T17:33:58+00:00

Energy production plays a strategic role in the process of capitalist development and its cost of production varies, among other factors, according to the energy source used. For investors in this productive sector it is strategic to control energy sources, which implies the exercise of control over territories. The objective of this work is to discuss and problematize the current model of renewable energy production highlighting the wind sector in the Northeast region of Brazil, states of Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte. It is emphasized that there is an intense and violent process of dispute for territorial control linked to territories endowed with this energy source. On the one hand, international capital appears, often seen as an abstract and depersonalized agent; on the other the traditional communities, which have long been precariously established in the places that are now in dispute. The research is based on literature review, data analysis, cartographic exploration and field work.

O controle de terras no Brasil pelo setor da silvicultura (2013-2022)

2025-06-06T17:33:59+00:00

The forestry sector and its derived productions occupy prominent positions in implementing enterprises in Brazil. In addition, positioned as one of the largest producers of forestry and pulp in the world, much of what is produced in Brazil is for export. According to data from the Foreign Trade Statistics (COMEX) of the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services (MDIC), in the year 2022 (from January to December), the forestry and logging sector exported about US$130 billion, while the paper and paper products manufacturing activities totaled about US$586 billion in the same year. However, the dynamics of this process, concealed by the significant export figures, encompass a problematic set of elements characteristic of commodity production for export in Brazil, which in turn are aggravated by the financialization of production on a global scale. The set of these processes can be read from the understanding of the control of territory, as we will demonstrate in this text. A brief overview of the control of territory in Brazil by the forestry sector is also discussed, by national and foreign agents.

Lutas por e nos territórios: manifestações dos movimentos socioespaciais e socioterritoriais rurais no Brasil nos anos de 2020 e 2021 a partir da metodologia da Rede DATALUTA

2025-06-06T17:34:00+00:00

The years between 2019 and 2022 have been framed by a conservative national government in Brazil, which has boosted sectors of the extreme right, especially in the countryside. The strategies of social mobilization were reconfigured in the disputes around alternative models of rural development. This article has as main objective to understand the actions of socio-spatial and socio-territorial movements in this situation and the repertoires used in defense and production of spaces and territories. Using the DATALUTA Network database, we analyzed the actions of these collective subjects in the years 2020 and 2021, based on the type of actions related to manifestations and protests. For this period, around 100 mobilizations were registered, with the main repertoires: protests, roadblocks, occupations of public buildings, marches and others. As main results, we observed that the MST was the movement that acted the most, with great national repercussion. Despite the decrease in land occupations, a traditional action since the origins of the MST, other repertoires were activated, such as protests against evictions and abuses of power, signaling that movements reinvent themselves in contexts that are adverse to participation.

Socio-spatial and socio-territorial movements: agroecological productive resistance actions in Brazil

2025-06-06T17:34:01+00:00

In recent years, Brazil has been marked by the advance of neoliberal policies, mainly during Jair Messias Bolsonaro’s government. The neoliberal policies, allied to the pandemic consequences, imposed on the sociospatial/socioterritorial movements the need to create new strategies of organization, articulation and struggle to achieve the survival conditions and permanence in land. We aim to analyze, from the Banco de Dados das Lutas por Espaços e Territórios (Database of Struggles of Space and Territory), the actions realized by Brazilian socio-spatial/socio-territorial movements between 2020 and 2021, related to productive resistances with a focus on agroecological actions. In face of lack of actions by the state during the pandemic, the productive resistances actions were evidenced as part of struggle agenda of movements in several fields: in the organizational field with the deepening of collective and cooperative work; in the production field with the realization of agroecological techniques; in the commercialization field with the search for alternatives to the expropriation of peasant income by capital; in the commodity circulation field in order to build new logistical possibilities, etc. This conjecture represents the materialization of the historical process of struggle of the movements to create a development model not governed by the logic of capital, but which is guided by agrarian reform and food sovereignty.

Protest actions in the Argentinean and Brazilian countryside from a gender perspective

2025-06-06T17:34:02+00:00

Faced with the aggressive expansion of capitalist exploitation projects on territories in Latin America, organised rural movements are resisting through diverse practices linked to territorial and food sovereignty. In many cases, these resistances are led by women, lesbians, transvestites, trans and non-binary people. Focused on the struggle for land and the effective recognition of land rights, they oppose the deepening inequalities caused by extractivism, which, as they denounce, is based on class, ethnic-racial and patriarchal violence. Organised, they demand the defence of life through diverse practices associated with food production and the transformation of socio-ecological and rural-urban relations. In this context, we aim to understand the production of territory(ies) by mapping and analysing protest actions and mobilisations led by women or involving gender issues in the countryside of Argentina and Brazil. This research is based on data recorded in 2021, available in the Data Bank of Struggles for Spaces and Territories (DATALUTA) and the Ruralities and Territories (INDES-FHCSYS/UNSE-CONICET) research group in Argentina, created within the framework of the international cooperation project ‘Socioterritorial Movements in a Comparative Perspective

The collective actions of agrarian socio-territorial movements and the relationship between the countryside and the cities in Brazil in 2020: the struggle for Popular Agrarian Reform

2025-06-06T17:34:03+00:00

This paper discusses the socioterritorial movements’ collective action in Brazil, during the year 2020. For this, we organize and analyze the dataluta network database. In dialogue with the literature on critical agrarian studies and the spatial diversity in geographic studies, we demonstrate how the actions implemented by agrarian socioterritorial movements in cities express the current agrarian question. Urban and rural are part of a dialectical reality, and to understand them it is necessary to go beyond polarized explanations that hide the conflicts between social classes. Those actions are the result of demands that articulate urban and rural spaces such as healthy food, environmental sustainability, and labor dignity. This fact reinforces the understanding that considering these new rural and urban meanings is paramount to suppressing capitalism’s structural limits.

Struggles for Rights in the Brazilian Urban Space and the SDGs in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2025-06-06T17:34:03+00:00

This article examines the actions of urban socio-spatial and socio-territorial movements in Brazil during 2020 and 2021, in a context marked by the pandemic and political polarization under the government of Jair Bolsonaro. The health crisis and the increase in poverty spurred the mobilization of various groups, both critical and supportive of the government. During the analyzed period, 438 active movements were recorded. In 2020, their actions were concentrated in large metropolitan areas, but in 2021, they expanded to intermediate cities. The data show how the political and social context influenced their agendas. Conservative and far-right groups challenged WHO guidelines and rejected the SDG framework, while left-wing movements promoted initiatives against poverty and in defense of health, education, and labor rights. This period reflected deep disputes and a lack of consensus in Brazilian society regarding a fairer and more sustainable future. The research was conducted within the scope of the DATALUTA Network, which manages the Database of Struggles for Spaces and Territories, analyzing since 2020 the relationship between these struggles and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Among the seeds, roots, and fruits of research, the territorial nature of forest struggles: the theoretical-methodological contributions of DATALUTA Floresta

2025-06-06T17:34:04+00:00

DATALUTA Floresta is a database created during the XIII National Meeting of the DATALUTA Network - Brazilian Research Network on Struggles for Space and Territories. The objective is to collect data on different socio-spatial and socio-territorial movements struggling for Brazilian biomes and forests. The collected, systematized, and spatialized data currently cover the years 2020 and 2021, with 610 and 620 registered collective actions. These two years reflect the specificity of a pandemic context that highlighted the vulnerability of indigenous peoples, quilombolas, extractivists, and other individuals involved in collective actions defending the forests. In the context of actions identified by the DATALUTA Floresta working team, two major categorization groups stand out, which we named 1) Main Actions and 2) Derivative Actions. The first is a broader category encompassing a diversity of actions with more specific characteristics, which would be the derivative actions. Building upon this initial effort, we intend to present the results obtained during the first years of the research, encompassing the types of actions, types of movements, and an analysis of the spatialization of the struggle for territories in/related to forests.

The The Autonomous Praxis as a Strategy of Resistance among Brazilian Indigenous Socioterritorial Movements: A Panorama of the Years 2020 and 2021 based on DATALUTA Network Brazil Data

2025-06-06T17:34:04+00:00

This article investigates the autonomic strategies mobilized by socio-territorial movements in Brazilian forests in 2020 and 2021, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on indigenous movements. Through the prism of “autonomic praxis,” understood as collective and self-managed political actions aimed at safeguarding socio-territorial and cultural integrity, the research systematizes unpublished data collected by DATALUTA Floresta, one of the databases of the Rede DATALUTA. The actions identified encompass a variety of strategies, such as the creation of territorial vigilance groups, the implementation of autonomous territorial control measures to combat COVID-19, and processes involving the retaking and self-demarcation of territories. These actions demonstrate the agency of socio-territorial movements against external political and economic forces that aim to control, submit, violate, and/or colonize their territories. The research contributes to the understanding of socio-spatial dynamics in the pandemic context, pointing to resistance strategies beyond the state sphere, thus reaffirming the relevance of the autonomic perspective in the struggle for self-determination and territorial control.

Drop by drop, a sea of actions: theoretical-methodological contributions to the study of socio-spatial and socioterritorial movements of water in Brazil

2025-06-06T17:34:04+00:00

Territorial disputes over natural resources have marked the history of Latin America. The growing neoliberal agenda and the advancement of financialization of natural assets are expressions of the process of commodification of nature and accumulation through spoliation, to the detriment of traditional peoples and communities. As a result of these and other processes, water spaces have become territorially contested, highlighting an unequal correlation aimed at controlling the resources embedded within these territories. Fishermen, shellfish gatherers, riverside dwellers, indigenous peoples, and many other individuals have started to organize themselves and form socioterritorial movements in different regions of Brazil, now expanding into a transnational struggle while maintaining strong local ties. Given this scenario, our objective is to highlight the innovative methodological contribution of the Land Struggle Database (DATALUTA) and the theoretical framework regarding socioterritorial movements in order to comprehend the contentious politics promoted around water territories in Brazil between 2020-2021.

Political Territorialization and the Forces of Heaven: Electoral Reconfiguration in Argentina in 2023

2025-06-07T15:35:40+00:00

In 2023, the results of the electoral process in Argentina triggered a reconfiguration of the two-coalition type competitive electoral scheme that had remained relatively stable since 2015. Although this transformation affected both national and subnational competitive arenas, this paper focuses on the electoral geography of the presidential election in the first round. In this regard, the traditional geographical configuration of the vote at the national level contradicts some of the assumptions of the theory of political nationalization, which predicts a relatively homogeneous competitive scenario for the various political coalitions in any subnational domain. Instead, in Argentina, two significantly differentiated regional frameworks have been consolidated: a central region, which has an equitable competitive dynamic between the main political formations, and a more peripheral region, mainly in the north of the country, largely dominated by the territorial factions of Peronism. These scenarios, with differentiated regional patterns of electoral behavior, were partially altered by the emergence of Javier Milei’s candidacy, changing the configuration of the territorialization of the vote, with traditional coalitions retreating to their strongholds and La Libertad Avanza (LLA) growing over regional frameworks of the vote linked to pre-existing political forces.

Español The study of everyday life in geography: analysis of a conflict over access to habitat in the city of Tandil

2025-06-07T15:39:23+00:00

Since the beginning of the 21st century, an increase in problems linked to access to urban land and decent housing has been observed in the city of Tandil. This situation is manifested through certain indicators, such as, for example, the increase in the percentage of tenant households, the expansion of urban informality and a greater number of collective land occupations, which have become especially acute in the last fifteen years. The objective of this work is to analyze the urban social conflict linked to access to habitat from a geographical perspective, in which the dimension of everyday life is also present, taking the case of the eviction of a settlement, which took place during the validity of the Preventive and Mandatory Social Isolation measures (ASPO), ordered by the National Executive Branch, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. To do this, information obtained through the participant observation technique was used, since the conflict was intervened through an extension project, attending meetings with various actors, and statements by the occupants and public officials made in the local press were also used.

Childhood and Gender: Geographies that Excite and Participatory Methods for Social Change

2025-06-06T17:34:06+00:00

Based on a literature review of three outstanding international geography journals, this article presents the main theoretical and methodological contributions to the geography of childhood in recent decades. The review focuses on the gendered and intersectional gaze, as well as the role of participatory methods in bringing emotions to the surface in geographical studies of childhood. To illustrate these three intersections (childhood, gender, and emotions), a concrete case study researched by the authors is presented. It concludes that there is a growing need to consider the emotional geographies of childhood as inseparable from the social, cultural, economic, and political landscapes of childhood.

Edad, género y emociones: aportes a su estudio relacional desde la Geografía

2025-06-06T17:34:06+00:00

Reflexionar e investigar sobre las niñeces significa pensarnos retrospectivamente, analizar la realidad actual con ellos y ellas, indagar sobre la reproducción social, el espacio público y privado, la capacidad de agencia, los roles y la visibilización.

Un punto de inicio podría ser acordar que la niñez no es universal, no es homogénea, que niños y niñas son sujetos protagonistas hoy y ahora, actores sociales que poseen voces que deben ser escuchadas, tenidas en cuenta y respetadas. Si se suma a la complejidad anunciada la pertenencia etaria y el género las dificultades de abordaje de problemáticas que tiene a las niñeces como núcleo central se acrecientan, interseccionando cuestiones sobre las que aun al menos desde la Geografía hay mucho que debatir.

Entonces, cuando desde la revista Punto Sur me ofrecen la oportunidad de hacer un comentario respecto del artículo INFANCIA Y GÉNERO: GEOGRAFÍAS QUE EMOCIONAN Y MÉTODOS PARTICIPATIVOS PARA EL CAMBIO SOCIAL de las autoras Anna Ortiz Guitart y Mireia Baylina Ferré de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, no puedo más que sentirme predispuesta y agradecida al equipo editorial.

Mi interés con este breve texto es dialogar humildemente con las autoras de este interesante aporte al campo de la Geografía de la Niñez, la Geografía del Género y la Geografía de las Emociones el marco mayor de la Geografía.

Hacia una historia de la geografía en Argentina desde la perspectiva de género

2025-06-06T17:34:07+00:00

Memorias y prácticas barriales a partir del juego y los miedos callejeros. Espacios del habitar cotidiano a modo de paisaje vecinal compartido

2025-06-06T17:34:07+00:00

There is (or always was) a past and it can be reconstituted into its own plot that pays attention to the skein woven by memory and its practice. Perhaps in this way it will show us a landscape of what has been lived, even if it is in sepia, in flashes of memory and in shared times. In this sense, we believe that neighborhoods display their particular landscape when it comes to being remembered and brought to the present for different reasons. This book is, without a doubt, a theoretical-conceptual deployment and an opening towards the personal and experiential affection of those who read and remember. Thus, he recovers memories of his past from what is said and manifested from other possible plots, similar, similar and, at the same time, different (more typical and unique: what is processed in the heart thanks to the memories). shared in any neighborhood).