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Through a narrativization that connects heterogeneous and often undetected social lives in Bogotá, Colombia, this article charts the rhizomatic spatial crossings of continuously mobile urban trajectories, the often-unsettled forms of dwelling that they inhabit, and their capacity to make place despite the dismantling of community cohesion and the necropolitical forms of urbanity operated by racial capitalism and coloniality across Latin America – what the article refers to as relational territories, drawing on a rich scholarship on Black Geographies of the everyday and Latin American ‘territorios’. From there, the article explores how paths are being charted out of the racial-colonial maze of Latin America’s city-making, through multiple forms of ordinary resistance/re-existence that create life in the interstices of ongoing necro-politics . Ultimately, the article shows how this pluralistic repertoire mobilized from the urban margins not only points to the difficulties of emplacement for Afro-descendant dwellers in Latin American cities but also to the possibility of respatialising the urban from the decolonial relationality of Améfrica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article integrates the affective and intellectual dimensions of our relationship with Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves, regarded here as a great geographer of action, both in terms of the concrete actions of social groups and movements and the transformative action of emotions. In this way, multiple territorialities (or multiterritorialities) are constructed between feeling/listening, thinking/expressing, and geographical actions, in the dialogue between Carlos Walter's rich contributions and our own work, particularly concerning territory as a process in the "conduct of conduct" that encompasses not only traditional politics but also its expansion into the realm of the "more-than-human," which increasingly impacts and (de)territorializes us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ways of inhabiting the Abya Ayala have been under pressure since the processes of colonization and invasion, impacting on people's ways of life in their territories. In this sense, their geo-graphies have been written as resistance, based on reappropriations and struggles rooted in geographical modes of existence, such as geographicity. The Salsipuedes-La Lacranera-San Isirodo river dwellers in the Calca Valley (Colombia), as peasants, express this re-existence in their way of dealing with the land, water and mountains. This article reflects research carried out between 2018 and 2022 with the river dwellers, analyzing their practices and way of living as an expression of hydropoetics that become hydropolitics of confrontation and struggle for land. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective/context: 1is work seeks to generate interpretations around a particular form of registration: photographic albums of leisure and vacation travel in Argentina around the mid-twentieth century. We study travel albums as an object that, through representational practices, allows for re#ecting on the subjectivities and sensibilities of personal and public memory. Methodology: We use a qualitative methodology, understanding that the photographic collection gathered in an album is a cultural practice that reveals the values of those who create, preserve, and manipulate it and also of those who interpret it and give it meaning. 1e starting point is a limited corpus of albums from private collections, some acquired in antique shops and others lent for study by families who kept them in their collections. Creative variations may appear in them, as photographs, maps, tickets, and words coexist, traces that generate an intertext of discourses. Originality: Although there are some works related to family albums in Argentina and some approaches to travel photographs in general, the presence of speci!c research on travel photographic albums is fragmented, which is the subject of this article. Conclusions: 1e !nal re#ections consider that travel photo albums have a powerful social and cultural relevance because, in their interpretation, other stories of the known history can be contributed, in which emotions and individual and private motivations can be perceived, as well as the creation of national, collective, and public representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the selection of three neighbourhoods in the municipality of Madrid with different characteristics: a middle-class neighbourhood, a central historic district undergoing change and a vulnerable neighbourhood, this study analyses the diversity and complexity of ties and attachments in the local space using qualitative methodology. The differential characteristics of each of these neighborhoods allow the various manifestations of the sense of belonging and the way in which residents develop meaningful connections with their local environment to be examined. Special attention is paid to the dynamics of social interaction, local support, neighbourhood solidarity, the practices through which individuals build their identity and find stability based on these ties and also to the way in which female leadership affects these processes. This analysis allows us to better understand how people, despite increasing individualisation and changes in traditional social structures, and in a context of permanent change and uncertainty, still value community ties of varying intensity that provide them with a certain sense of anchorage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text raises a series of reflections on how problematic it would be to assume the discourses that seek to outline the current educational system, without sufficient reflection on the conception of the school, the role of the teacher and the territory in the training processes. This is how three parts are structured, in the first, the implications of thinking about the role of the school from emerging paradigms, current demands and its historical role in society are exposed. In the second part, a series of aspects are exposed around the link between reflection and pedagogical practice. To, finally, put on the table the role of the territory in the training processes and how, from the geopedagogy approach, a relevant and valid field can be found from which to think about training and education today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses the home visit as part of the technical-operative instrument used in the work of social workers, proposing a critical reflection on this instrument, highlighting its historicity, purpose, and consonance with the guidelines of the profession's ethicalpolitical project. In methodological terms, the article is based on a systematic analysis of the profession's literature and legislation, as well as a bibliographical review. The text suggests articulation with the theoretical category of "territory" and reaffirms the need for the use of home visits in professional work to be based on the theoretical references of the profession and aimed at guaranteeing rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this proposal is to build a typology that allows analyzing the historical violence inflicted on P'urhépecha women in Cherán and how they are linked to the disputes present in the territory, especially over the appropriation of the forest. We will emphasize the various strategies of struggle and resistance that they have erected to alleviate them and to defend the different forms of life. This analytical construction was carried out through the body-territory cartography workshops that were carried out in different time periods during the six years of fieldwork that this research contemplates (2016-2022) and in which women from the community participated. in different age ranges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last few decades, the São Marcos river basin has stood out in terms of productivity from irrigated agriculture. A striking feature is the large number of private dams for water security purposes, in order to guarantee the maintenance of agricultural commodities through the use of center pivots. In functional terms, the dams constitute the structural rationality of the territory, at the same time as they promote water appropriation and the control of its flow, as well as the expansion of territorial power. At the same time, the water reservoir factor is the cause of water conflicts between members of the same productive class: irrigators. In order to analyze this context, the methodology used was a review of the literature and documents, as well as an analysis of data collected in the field. As a result, the study highlights the strategic functionality of private dams and the territorial practices that involve the domination of water by one territory over another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Caucasia, municipality of Bajo Cauca Antioqueño in Colombia, expresses necropolitical and necrocapitalist dynamics that State and illegal actors deploy on the territory and specifically on the Cauca River. This action permeates the daily life and subjectivity of local communities in affective, territorial, identity and memory aspects, which are built in experiences and life trajectories in the territory. This text analyzes from a qualitative approach and social phenomenological method, which, from the experience of six participants, captures some meanings of this tributary. The field work considered interviews and accompaniment to their work in situ. Among the results, local meanings are highlighted, which emerge in the felt experience linked to the river, coexisting and in tension with hegemonic positions of the State and the armed groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the dispute over the northern part of Antarctica, particularly the Antarctic Peninsula, involving Argentina, Chile, and the United Kingdom, as well as Brazil's sovereign claim, from 2012 to 2022 through the lens of classical geopolitics. It is grounded in a documentary review of treaties, state declarations, specialized literature, and press releases. Employing a qualitative and comparative methodology, the text delineates events between 1938 and 1959, explicating territorial claims and the Antarctic Treaty, which has preserved geopolitical stability until recently when new technological, environmental, and geopolitical challenges emerged. The article posits that these national territorial assertions render the notion of Antarctica as a Common Heritage of Humanity untenable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Andes mountains have been occupied for thousands of years, but the current representation we have of them today is just 500 hundred years old. It was the chroniclers, explorers, conquerors, geographers, and other researchers who, merging their observations and experiences with indigenous stories, shaped the geographical imagination of the Andes. This paper aims to reconstruct that process, starting from the 16th century until the mid-19th century, when the mountain range reached a peak in the geographical imaginary of the world; an imaginary based in a view of totality of nature-society relation. Based on elements derived from humanist geography regarding geographical imagination and representation, the matter is to be developed in three parts: first, a chapter about the initial invention of the Andes perceived from 'over there' that includes the construction of the Andean imaginary of the xvi century; a second section on the transformation of that imaginary in the 18th century; and a chapter that discusses the creation of a nineteenth-century geographical representation largely defined by the extraordinary work of Alexander von Humboldt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this text is to analyze the process of heritagization of the historic center of the city of Oaxaca, based on a theoretical and conceptual scaffolding that highlights the overlap between the spatial and cultural dimensions of social life. In this sense, the category of historic center is used as a cognitive tool which expresses a series of material and symbolic practices, which serve to endow a set of values to a space delimited and differentiated from the totality of the city. In methodological terms, a spatio-temporal analysis is used to reconstruct the evolution of the city of Oaxaca, as well as the conformation of its historical centrality. It also resorts to the use of documentary and ethnographic data in order to unveil the discourses and practices developed by the different subjects that produce this space. It is emphasized that the historic center of Oaxaca has been produced as a heritage space of global scale, where a monumentalist vision of the cultural heritage predominates, as well as a valuation and use of it, from a mercantile logic linked to tourist activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the COVID-19 pandemic, indigenous peoples in the southeast of Pará faced, among many emergencies, the worsening of territorial violations and precarious health care and education, without depriving them of resilience to frontier capitalism in the region. The information obtained through interviews with indigenous leaders, consultation of official data and those published by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), as well as field notes on the performance of the Mutual Support Network to Indigenous Peoples of Southeastern Brazil Pará, highlights the strategic use of the territory for isolation and resurgence of cultural practices, and the formulation of policies to resist the systemic crises aggravated by the fascist national government of the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourism and exporting are increasingly important economic activities for territories. In particular, export survival, understood as continuity in exporting without interruptions or dropouts, depends mostly on the added value of their products. In Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), the absence of added value in the wine sector is identified as the main reason behind the low export prices and the negative image. However, wine tourism offers a solution based on the creation of unique experiences related to the elements of the territory, such as history, geography, and production methods, whose intangible values are transmitted through visits to the wineries. In addition, direct sales during visits become an opportunity for wineries to generate income. This study, based on the analysis of mainly economic sources, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches of an exploratory nature, establishes that the added value of wine favors wine tourism. This, in turn, has a direct impact on the promotion of wine and affects the demand and prices of wines, which influences the chances of export survival of wineries in regions that need promotion and sales elements such a Castilla-La Mancha. These findings can be used as a basis for the study of other regions and/or products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Territory is a distinctive feature of modern international politics, but there is little consensus over what about it is distinctively modern. Recent scholarship in historical international relations (IR) takes modern territoriality to be defined by the practice of creating and enforcing borders. Scholarship therefore dismisses the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, once thought to be the origin of the sovereign territorial state, because it did not change border practices. However, this approach ignores legal history. I argue that territory is a legal concept, and a history of modern territoriality must explain under what conditions rulers expressed their authority as territorial in nature. This article explains why the legal evolution of territorial rights (landeshoheit, iure territorii) in early modern Europe was distinctive of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE). While national monarchies asserted their "sovereignty" as non-territorial in order to capture overseas empires, the HRE developed a legal doctrine of territorially circumscribed jurisdiction within the imperial hierarchy. The Peace of Westphalia was a culminating event in which diverse privileges were recast as a single territorial right. Territorial autonomy was not only consistent with the hierarchy of the HRE but was fundamental to preserving it. This article has two contributions. First, it adds to recent scholarship on modern territoriality by explaining how legal history furnished the preconditions for ruling territory. Second, it places Westphalia and the empire's legal history within the recent turn toward empire in historical IR. An important source for the development of international law was the internal constitution of the HRE. This prompts us to reconsider the notion that international law assumes a world of sovereign territorial states. On the contrary, early international law concerned territorial states nested within imperial hierarchy, not the anarchy of sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the development of Pitrufquén (located in the Araucanía Region, Chile, and founded in 1897) from a historical, territorial, urban, and architectural point of view. It is proposed that the city’s development is framed in a new moment, where the Chilean State abandons military criteria and assumes economic-territorial factors where the railroad’s presence is a determining factor. The choice of the site, its particular layout, and the development of its architecture are evidence of this change. From the historical point of view, it is analyzed how, in Pitrufquén, the Mapuche society had cattle raising as the main economic activity, as it had pastures to feed the cattle, the land was suitable for crops, and there was a vital ford to cross the Toltén River. This strategic location was maintained and accentuated by the city’s founding and the railroad’s arrival in 1898, turning the town into a railhead for progress towards the south of the country. In the case of the urban layout, its peculiarity was addressed since, together with Lonquimay, these are the only sections in the La Araucanía region organized based on an ellipse, which, in the case of Pitrufquén, also coexists with a checkerboard layout. The study analyzed its squares, diagonal avenues, and the perimeter ring road. At an architectural level, the article explores the three layers or aspects of the city: The first one studies the wooden architecture with works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the second refers to public architecture, represented by buildings such as the municipality, public services, the post office, and others; and a third layer addresses the modern architecture, such as housing and stores from the period between 1940 and 1960. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Constitutional Court has declared a constitutional challenge extinguished due to the loss of object. The challenge was based on procedural elements that could have violated Article 23.2 of the Spanish Constitution. However, the contested norm has been repealed and the requirements to justify the judicial review of repealed laws are not met. The appeals for protection filed by deputies of the Madrid Assembly will be able to address the violation of the fundamental right in question. [Extracted from the article]

The Tribunal Constitucional has issued a ruling on the Andalusian Law on Territorial and Urban Planning (LISTA), which deals with urban planning in Andalusia, Spain. The court rejected several claims against the law, stating that they did not hinder the legislative process. However, the court did find certain provisions of the law to be unconstitutional, including a comment allowing residential construction in rural areas and the exclusion of mining activities from municipal urban planning permits. The court also clarified that certain uses, such as renewable energy and mining, can be considered ordinary in non-protected rural areas. The ruling addresses various aspects of the law and its impact on environmental protection and local autonomy. [Extracted from the article]

In the territories of the native peoples of Oaxaca, Mexico, the Autonomous Communal University of Oaxaca (UACO) is built from the philosophy of communality, with epistemic, theoretical and methodological bets different from traditional universities. Sound environments, subaltern historiography and narrative poetics in research, in addition to the action of listening, cross the territorial university model of communality. This article is an approach to the UACO to learn about its own methods, theories and strategies (from the communal worldview). that can be taken up from Communication Studies in Mexico to generate lines of research and audiovisual narratives close to humanism, communality and microhistory. Floriberto Hernández, Jaime Luna Martínez, Ranajit Guha and Didier Eribon are part of the theoretical framework that underpins this work. Documentary and biographical methods, and the semi-structured interview technique were used to obtain the information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The city can be understood as a space where capitalist and patriarchal logics are materialized, engendering symbolic barriers and socio-spatial segregation. Within this context, this paper addresses territoriality of the LGBTIQ+ population at the urban scale It is part of a broader reflection within an ongoing Master's dissertation. The research aims to identify these Territories through clipping of journalistic news and to gather them in a cartography. Finally, this paper was produced as an effort to continue researches that give voice to a population that is often disrespected, forgotten, brutalized, killed, and erased by our society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the spatial politics of Peru’s gastronomic revolution and corresponding efforts to territorialize Peruvian agricultural products by tracing the spatial dynamics of quinoa’s trajectory from highland dietary staple to coveted national food. Efforts to codify Peru’s national cuisine have involved mapping ingredients and dishes onto specific regions while dramatically reshaping agricultural production geographies and culinary topographies. Because of quinoa’s success as a high-value export crop, the Peruvian altiplano is no longer perceived as a landscape useful exclusively for livestock pasture and mining. Instead, it is imagined as agriculturally productive: the country’s quinoa heartland. At the same time, quinoa’s trajectory illuminates spatial contradictions in the gastronomic boom’s purported objectives and its tangible effects. The revalorization of quinoa led to a geographical expansion of its production outside the high Andes, undermining the spatially bound concepts of authenticity promoted by gastronomic leaders in Peru. Broadly, efforts to commercialize marginalized food products and their corresponding regions can at once reconfigure territorial discourses in important ways, reinforce long-standing geographical inequalities, and generate contestations of the geographic imaginaries of food and nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of climate change and forest fires, the lack of an intercultural approach in fire management policies, which incorporates the cultural knowledge of communities, has had negative consequences, posing a threat to the preservation of these practices within the communities. The objective of this article is to understand the relationship between culture and fire as a possibility for the integrated management of this element, addressing the challenges of community work in the key of Heideggerian dwelling, building, and caring. Phenomenology from Heidegger serves as our methodological guide. The comprehensive journey leads us to the conclusion that the term 'culture' is related to the experience of Heideggerian building and dwelling, as long as it is seen from the perspective of care and protection, akin to communal construction. Thus, we question the colonial oversight paradigm of prohibitive policies regarding fire use in communities. This article aims to promote governmental practices that integrate culture from its conceptual depth into participatory institutional programs for the design of fire management policies, adopting an intercultural approach. In this way, we will recognize pyrobiocultural territories as cores of knowledge through which people live and dwell with care from people's memory lens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conservation of endangered species is a crucial topic in conservation biology due to the important ecological roles these species play in their respective ecosystems. Top predators are particularly vulnerable to the variation in environmental conditions. The Bonelli's Eagle (Aquila fasciata) is a long-lived bird of prey that fulfills its role as a top predator in Mediterranean ecosystems, but its overall population has declined in the Iberian Peninsula in recent decades. As with other long-lived species, the Bonelli's Eagle reaches its maximum fitness at maturity, highlighting the importance of assessing how intrinsic and extrinsic factors affect population dynamics over time. In this study, we conducted annual surveys of a Bonelli's Eagle subpopulation in the eastern Iberian Peninsula from 2002 to 2021. Our results indicate that the large decline observed in the number of occupied territories, fledged chicks, and successful pairs is not due to negative density-dependent effects but rather influenced by various environmental and demographic factors. These factors include breeders' age, nest-site characteristics, climatic conditions, and previous breeding costs. We found that productivity was higher in territories with high winter precipitation and temperatures, as well as in coastal areas, leading to earlier laying dates. Additionally, the presence of subadult individuals in the breeding pair decreased breeding performance. Interestingly, the variability in the number of fledglings in each territory was driven by previous breeding costs. Prioritizing efforts to mitigate adult mortality and conserve suitable habitats becomes imperative to halt the ongoing decline of this population and also to enhance productivity, ultimately facilitating the restoration of the species to previous population levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to describe what is taught about the territory in Colombian primary and secondary schools. The study focuses on describing the contents about the territory that appear in the textbooks of wide circulation in the country according to what is established by the Colombian educational legislation, more specifically, in the curricular standards of social sciences. A qualitative methodology focused on content analysis was used. Two sources of information were used: (i) the social sciences curricular standards, one of the quality curricular references published by the Ministry of National Education (MEN) in 2004. This analysis is of the utmost importance in a country like Colombia which, although it has a territory rich in biodiversity and natural resources, also has serious problems of inequity in land tenure, lack of territorial control by the state and processes of deterritorialization of populations in both rural and urban areas. The problems of land tenure and deterritorialization have given rise to other problems, such as voluntary and involuntary internal and external migration processes, but they were also one of the main causes of Colombia's armed conflict and the expansion of illegal economies such as drug trafficking. The results show the need for the teaching of territory in school textbooks in Colombia to be configured from complex concepts and procedures that integrate the different dimensions of this category in the light of current debates on the didactics of geography. It also shows the need for the diversity of authors and editorial proposals that are taken to the classrooms of the country to contain relevant learning proposals that encourage students to understand and analyze the dynamics of their territories beyond the descriptive, so that what is taught in school contributes to the formation of citizens who propose and commit themselves to the solution of the problems of their environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The approach presented in this text revolves around the landscape as an expression of human actions in the territories. From the geographical perspective, it is proposed to decipher the meaning that the landscape has for the subject as an expression of socio-spatial interactions. At the same time, this work aims to understand the subject as the maker of the landscape in his daily experiences and coexistences. Here, affects, roots and territorialities are addressed as cultural processes of identification in the inhabited landscape. These processes have unique manifestations in the spaces of national borders. These processes have particular manifestations in border spaces that are exemplified in this text in succinct considerations on circular mobilities in western Venezuela and the Colombian border neighborhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a reflection on the riverine space of the São Sebastião community in the Resex Mapuá-Breves- PA, and its relationship with the house, the forest and the river, having as basis of data collection the field book and the ethnographic research. Guided by the theoretical prism offered by post-structuralist philosophers and anthropologists such as Deleuze, Guattari, Pierre Bourdieu and Roy Wagner, I present the riverine space with a complex space and superimposed on the other, an open world, unfixed, bustling and dynamic, a riverine territory created and/or invented as a body without organs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research has as its context four municipalities in the province of Soto Norte in Santander and Southwestern Antioquia. It addresses the concept of region from symbols, narratives and collective imaginaries, social cartography workshops, and information recorded in development and territorial planning plans, with the aim of understanding the process of territorial and regional configuration. The data obtained are analyzed from a comprehensive and descriptive sociological approach, to be organized into two scales of analysis: a context scale and a micro-territory scale. The context scale consists of recognizing the internal dynamics of the study area in its endogenous processes and interactions; the second scale of analysis is called microterritory, since it approaches the second-order organizations in the region and recognizes their internal dynamics. The results show the importance of including the spatiality of the social as a complementary category of analysis in the planning and delimitation processes of the regions implemented by the administrations of both departments. This means studying space as a social product, which, in the contexts addressed, is associated with the notion of hodological territory, everyday life and the contingent character under which these realities manifest themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the wayuu, the territory is the space of interaction between the earthly and the divine, it is the place of sustenance and development of the being, where the most important events and happenings of life occur, it is the place where the principle and end of human life confront. The article focuses on analyzing the thinking of the wayuu being about the territory, the way in which it relates to its environment and the different representations that are generated from the wayuu worldview and mythology. The article is based on the review of primary and secondary sources of information, taking the analysis of a case study as the basis. In the wayuu culture, the movement of animals from one place to another restriction is a symbol of reciprocity and shows that in some circumstance's community boundaries are marked by values that preserve the common welfare between communities of the same ethnic group. We highlight the importance of understanding the incidence of values, norms, customs, and beliefs on the occupation and use of cultural territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines environmental conflicts that explain situations of environmental injustice and suffering and their relationship with spatial planning practices in Bogotá-region, Colombia. Based on different qualitative sources, environmental conflict cases are analyzed, as speculative or for-profit urban development, extractive activities of construction materials or the impact of waste landfills in areas of social and ecological relevance. We invite to rethink spatial and land use planning practices as a collective political task that aims at more democratic practices, not only as planners' duty. Likewise, we advanced in understanding the dialectic between conflicts and spatial planning in a context of high complexity and biodiversity. Here it is key to recalibrate how an environmental conflict is understood and assume it as a multi-scalar process, territorially inscribed and crossed by socioecological inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ratzel's ideas are reviewed, recognizing him as a sort of putative father of the concept of territory in contemporary geography. From this milestone, we analyze the contributions of three French-speaking geographers: Jean Gottman, Yves Lacoste, and Claude Raffestin, who laid the foundations of a renewal of the prevailing Vidalian geography among the Gallic intellectual circles, originating what we could call post-Vidalism. The analysis concludes that it is impossible to accept the separation of contemporary and current geographical thought between the Anglo-Saxon and Francophone schools, since the variations and twists in the understanding of concepts, as territory, that occur in each of these schools are more remarkable than between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes to the research on regional deindustrialization in Brazil. This paper develops and analyzes the relative regional deindustrialization (DRR) indicator from 2002 to 2018, which sought to measure which regions would be most affected by the deindustrialization process in Brazil. The main results were: the main regions "above the national average" were PE, BA and the Midwest states (GO, MT, MS and DF); the main regions "below the national average" were: PA, RN, ES, RJ and RS; and the other states were close to the "national average". In conclusion, the results for the "national average" and "above the national average" states do not exclude regional deindustrialization, but for the regions "below the national average", they raise greater concerns about the phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Huave town of San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca, is located on the sand bar in the Tehuantepec isthmus's lagoon area. Diverse categories were identified using a horizontal methodology approach and grounded theory. One of them is the territory, which, from its lagoon geography, gave rise to a tangible and intangible fabric between time and space through the relationships between water, sand, winds, and stars, creating a cosmo-existence and conviviality that persists today, manifesting itself in living through fishing, partying, and housing. These are particular situations of this culture that, through the natural entities, transform the territory and allow the naming of ancestral landscapes of the poetic sublime. This way of living between water and sand is the materialization of a culture's territorialization processes, particularly the huave/ikoots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is relevant to build a common view of the city, of those diverse cities, which actually make up the district of Medellin, the city of hillsides, the rural peasant city, the city of tenants, possessors, and owners, the city of the large informal economy family, the city of dwellers, and, even, the city of street dwellers. This shared vision should lead to a collective agenda, which will guide development plans and, even more, land-use plans, by promoting a more inclusive and equitable network-city. This concrete, real, participatory process is what we should consider, in a certain way, the path toward Urban Peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the valleys, and plains to the west of the Sierras Centrales in Argentina oscillated between their relations with Cuyo and the attraction of the city of Córdoba. The mountain range and its many rivers were a significant orographic obstacle and helped to give these communities a distinctive identity. In this study, we explore from a historical environmental perspective how this established configuration was disrupted at the end of the 19th century, within the framework of state consolidation and the Atlantic reorientation of the Argentine economy. Thus, we analyze how the pre-existing dynamics and relationship with water and mountain runoff were a limit between the mountain valleys and the thriving agro-livestock economy of the Pampas. Traditional historiographic sources were used -reports, stories, newspapers, among others- together with historical cartography and GIS software. The latter, allowed to shed new light on some previously ignored elements around the hidrosocial and transportation system of that landlocked province [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the collective actions by the community of the neighborhood Ciudadela Colsubsidio-El Cortijo in Bogotá, which respond to the socioenvironmental conflict between the State and the people over the dispute of the usage of the territory, during the period 2021-2022. Through ethnomethodology, the factors that produce the socio-environmental conflict were identified, actions that responded to the conflict were systematized and the scope of those actions were analyzed. Therefore, it is said that in Ciudadela Colsubsidio-El Cortijo, the community is rethinking how to live in the neighborhood from a perspective of the right to the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The objective of this work is to evaluate whether, in the Piracicaba, Capivari, and Jundiaí (PCJ) River Basins, their managers can dimension, integrate, or foresee the right to water and sanitation for populations, which, due to their condition of social, economic, or geographic distribution are in a situation of territorial vulnerability. Methodology: The methodological path adopted consisted of a bibliographical literature review and a punctual analysis of the Situation Report of Water Resources in the PCJ Basins 2021, base year 2020. Originality/Relevance: The most significant academic contribution is the proposition of theoretical mechanisms that support the scope of the universality of supply services and the difficulties faced in the territory for access to this common and finite good, water. The relevance and originality of the study consist in showing, in its methodology and results, how territorial vulnerability is among the main strategic challenges of the sustainable management of water resources. Results: The main result achieved in the study indicates that in most of the urban regions of the municipalities analyzed, public service for water supply is widespread. However, access is not of good quality and universal. Social/management contributions: The authors' main expectation is to be able to contribute to the advancement of discussions on the issue of universal access to water and sanitation and to provide, within the scope of public policies, analytical paths for the sustainable management of water resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the processes of occupation of rural space, the norms given from the Territorial Planning have prevailed, which allows the advancement of urban land, in the face of the decline of rural land. This article presents a reflection of the processes of appropriation of the territory from the perspective of rural settings through these case studies, based on the conceptual reflection on rurality and governance. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, documentary techniques, review of primary sources, technical reports from cars, and secondary (carried out in the period from 2006 to 2020). Among the main results, a marked polarity is observed in environmental management in governmental and territorial institutions, a derogatory sense towards the protection of rural soil in both cases, for this reason it is necessary to generate regulatory processes and management in the pursuit of rural soil protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this investigative experience was the use of social cartography as a didactic mediation of environmental education to understand the Classroom-School-Territory interaction. The methodological route was of a qualitative approach through the elaboration of social cartography as a teaching and learning strategy of socio-environmental issues with the student population of primary school and the media of four Educational Institutions of the public sector of the department of Quindío, Colombia. The main findings show that in most of the cartographic representations, students express the importance of the natural and cultural landscape of their localities, reflect the main environmental problems and economic-productive dynamics, all which accounts for how students make their own readings. Socio-spatial aspects of everyday realities and how they inhabit the territory. Indeed, this experience of applying social cartography as a didactic strategy of environmental education, allowed students to come closer to understanding their environment and the interactions between the school and the territory, where a more participatory educational approach was opted for. and contextualized the curricular contents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to describe the different ways of perceiving the body as territory in women who practice prostitution in the sector of La Veracruz in Medellín (Colombia) from their narratives. This corresponds to a qualitative study of a descriptive level framed in the hermeneutic interpretive paradigm and the classical phenomenological method. For the collection of information, a semi-structured interview and social cartography were used as techniques. The data was analyzed through a coding process that allowed the identification of emerging categories with the support of the Atlas Ti software. The results show that from the vision that women who practice prostitution have, it is possible to perceive the body as a space that is integrated by the emotional, the behavioral, the expressive and the experiential that recognizes itself as a territory that can be inhabited. and changing, that the historicity of this and the conflicts that go through it, allow it to be recognized as a tool of struggle, perseverance and interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text narrates the events that occurred on the night of August 30, 1996, when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) took control of the Municipality of Capitanejo-Santander. It explores how the residents remember this event and the significance it holds for the people of Capitanejo, a narrative laden with violence from the past. The study is based on semi-structured interviews, contrasted with press archives from the time, police records, and research on the armed conflict in the region. The information is analyzed in light of the theoretical contributions of Pierre Nora, Roger Chartier, and Danièle Hervieu-Léger. The article highlights how the residents of Capitanejo remember that night, described as the beginning of a new cycle of violence, as paramilitary forces arrived after the guerrilla's establishment, reinforcing a violent past that, at times, seems to collectively define them. The memories of that tragic night and the narratives of the people of Capitanejo demonstrate how memories and representations have contributed to the construction of a common identity around violence, leading to a lack of recognition of their diverse past and efforts to seek a dignified and peaceful life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the relationships between foundations and communities, resources of different types are mobilized and those who receive them are seen in an asymmetrical position; this study seeks to identify and interpret the narrative elements that characterize the perceptions about philanthropic practices among communities in Mexico; as well as to characterize the narrative elements that question the hegemonic definitions of philanthropy. Based on three workshops, with the participation of 70 people from 19 Mexican states, we analyzed knowledge and perceptions regarding the definition of community philanthropy, the recognition of differentiated contributions between men and women, and the recognition of the types of resources and how they are mobilized. The people participating in the workshops do not identify with a generalized definition of Community Philanthropy, but rather different philanthropic practices were made visible related to the work carried out in the private and public spheres, the processes of memory recovery and attachment to the territory. It is concluded that the visibility of the resources contributed by the communities, mainly the intangible ones, promotes symmetrical relationships; as well as recognizing that external donations enhance the processes that are already taking place within the communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mexico occupies first place in mining exploration in Latin America, a situation that has caused alarm among native peoples because the implementation of extractive projects threatens their vital space. The objective of this paper is to analyze the actions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the Ixtaca Project in Ixtacamaxtitlán, Puebla, as well as the strategies of territorial defense undertaken by the communities to stop its expansion. Data was gathered through one survey, one workshop and various interviews conducted in three communities a!ected by the project. Results discuss three actions of CSR: 1) job o!ers; 2) investment in community infrastructure; 3) support for social events. Three main defense strategies were identified: 1) collective agreements refusing to sell water to the company; 2) legal litigations in favor of the right to be consulted as native peoples; 3) the strengthening of peasant agriculture thanks to the defense of the ejido, the conservation of irrigation water and the support received from the federal program Sembrando Vida. The paper concludes that, despite the negative impacts of RCS actions, these strategies have proven e!ective because mining concessions have been cancelled and some families have returned to agriculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Onilé, an entity from ancient Dahomey, had its cult recreated in Brazil through Afro-based religions Brazilian, sometimes resembling the constitution of the ground/foundation of a Candomblé terreiro with the aim of expand the realizing force (asé|), through the recreation of mythical territories that recompose the microcosm African with their ways of life and production of ancestral knowledge redefined in the present. The text brings perceptions about Onilé in Africa and the Diaspora and its relationships with other existences in places and coexistence with differences intertwined with the thought of Totality-World and Poetic Relationship by Eduardo Glissant; the flows of Afro-Brazilian philosophy and the description of experiences observed in Candomblé terreiros Ilè Logun Edé Ala Key Koysan, in the neighborhood of Boca do Rio - Salvador-BA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the communication strategies of the Movement of Those Affected by the Alcântara Space Base in Maranhão, Brazil, through a case study that uses semi-structured interviews and documentary research. It mobilizes concepts of social movements, the Black movement, and quilombola. It addresses the specificities of ethnic territory and discusses the role of communication in strengthening citizenship and the Black press as a means of counterhegemony. The analysis shows that, despite difficulties, MABE confronts dominant narratives and seeks to transform power relations through autonomous and adaptive communication, inseparable from its militancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between the decades of 1960 and 1990, the family dairy farming activity, a fundamental link in the dairy circuit located in the dairy basin in Buenos Aires province, experienced significant transformations. These were driven by the demands of pasteurization, the mechanization of tasks, the railways decline, the automobile transportation growth, the lower labour demand, changes in dairy demand and the expansion of large diversified plants. Within a context of process of productive change, which role did mobility, in terms of infrastructure and practices, play? How did mobility restrict family dairy production? How did (in)accessibility influence? In order to answer these questions that have not deserved enough historiographical attention, this research describes the daily life of dairy farming families in the General Paz district, with the focus placed on mobility practices and the accessibility problems that made their social reproduction difficult in the mentioned period. To do this, a socio-territorial approach will be used and multiple sources will be compiled and analyzed, such as the press, legislation, statistics, maps and interviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present research starts by considering state educational establishments and their school architectures as spaces where part of the territorial construction carried out by the States is enabled. At the same time, they are spaces around which a multiplicity of territorialities are being developed as they are located in cities or in clustered or dispersed rural areas, therefore interacting with different social groups. This article seeks to identify how the space of the state school collaborates in the production of territoriality in contexts of indigenous-peasant communities located in mountain areas representing a very difficult access in the province of Tucumán, Argentina. At the same time, it is interesting to visualize the nuances that are generated in the interaction between the territorialities of the indigenous-peasant communities and the school institutions in these particular contexts. The starting point for this study was the identification and analysis of 14 rural schools located in the Cumbres Calchaquíes and Sierras de Quilmes mountain ranges, areas inhabited mainly by indigenous-peasant communities. Among the main results, it is proposed that in these specific contexts, the state territoriality sought by educational establishments and school practices is challenged and modified by local practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the reconstruction and analysis of the territorial work of Cooperativa La Comunitaria in the rural town of Santa Isabel (province of La Pampa), and more precisely, the opening of a balanced feed plant and the creation of an alternative corn marketing circuit. From the perspective of local development, the aim is to analyze the results of La Comunitaria's intervention in the territory at a productive level and the degree of replicability this project can have in other rural territories. To do this, we will recover the historical-political background of La Comunitaria at the local level, we will investigate the articulations that the organization establishes with other actors and its power construction strategies. On the other hand, we will study the organizational and economic features and the experiences of participation in the productive project. This is a qualitative work, which includes field records (both in-person and virtual) and a transdisciplinary theoretical approach. It is expected to make a contribution to the field of studies of public policies linked to local development, the social economy, as well as rural studies in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this text, Juan García Salazar and Catherine Walsh draw from and extend portions of their conversations begun a number of years ago about the sowing and re-sowing of knowledge and life in the communities of the Colombo-Ecuadorian region-territory of the AfroPacific. The conversation invokes and thinks with a third voice, that of Grandfather Zenón, considered the Grandfather of all those beings who reside in this territory. It is Zenón's voice that expresses and brings to life the words, teachings, and collective memory of the elders past and present, and, in so doing, continues the ancestral plantings, giving meaning and force to the collective philosophies, knowledges, and memory that persist, resist, and re-exist in the AfroPacific and beyond in these present times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents research results on eight latin-american digital experiences, understood as belonging to independent journalism. The objective was to understand the emergence of a new cultural form, resulting from the region's territorial processes. The research bases itself on the Culture Studies and considers central the concept of cultural form, from Raymond Williams (1979). It goes through the productive process of the eight sites through the methodological protocol of the culture circuit, from Richard Johnson (2010). The results point towards the emergence of a cultural form, whose matrices are in both alternative and traditional journalism, a result of historical processes that generate a practice and product with particular characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]