Territorial disputes and rural subjects

 Territorial disputes and rural subjects


Seminar 2034

Coordination : Natalia Espinosa Rincón (Pontifical Javeriana University, Colombia) and Eliud Torres Velázquez (Autonomous Metropolitan University – Xochimilco, Mexico)

Teaching team: Stalin Gonzalo Herrera Revelo (Institute of Ecuadorian Studies, Ecuador), Bernardo Mancano Fernandez (São Paulo State University, Brazil), Pilar Lizarraga (Jaina Studies Community, Bolivia) and Ana Liz Enidt Rolón Portillo (Center for Interdisciplinary Rural Studies, Paraguay)


Home: 15 / 06 / 2020 | Registration: 20/04/2020 al 14/06/2020

Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.


After more than 20 years of existence of the Working Group on Critical Studies of Rural Development, and taking into account the accumulated research of this group, this seminar seeks to introduce participants to the critical analysis of agrarian transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean, socio-territorial disputes and conflicts, as well as the reconstitution of rural subjects involved in the processes of autonomy, resistance and peasant and ethnic (indigenous) struggles, their knowledge, collective practices and gender and generational relations.

The approach will be based on experiences taking place in rural lands and territories in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Paraguay, primarily, where we will address conflicts and dispossession related to mining, agribusiness, extractivism, the agri-food sector, land grabbing and foreign ownership, as well as other expressions of agrarian capitalism and neoliberal policies. In contrast, we will also examine the alternatives being developed by the peoples of Latin America to overcome the modern state and assume control of rural territories, as well as the most recent cycle of Indigenous and peasant mobilizations in our countries.

  • Rural debates and transformations for the turn of the century after more than 20 years of critical studies by the Rural Development Working Group.
  • Dispossession and capitalist accumulation in the greater homeland. Political narratives and the naturalization of dispossession
  • The peasant question in Latin America
  • Political economy of indigenous peasant struggles at the end of the 20th century
  • Socio-territorial movements and the agrarian question in Latin America and the Caribbean: the multidimensionality and multi-scalarity of the struggle for land and territory
  • Territorial conflicts and land grabbing in Latin America
  • Agrarian change and productive alternatives in the 21st century. Peasant societies in Latin America and the Caribbean: struggles for remaining in the territory in the era of globalization
  • Feminisms in debate: women, rurality and reproduction
  • New ruralities, old struggles: The emergence of girls and boys as political subjects in Latin American autonomies and resistances
  • Public policies for land-use planning in Latin America: Another offensive by national and transnational capital
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  • Barbetta, Pablo, Domínguez, Diego and Sabatino, Pablo (2012), “The absence of peasants in Argentina as scientific production and intervention approach” In Mundo Agrario Vol 13, No 25, Center for Historical Rural Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences of the National University of La Plata.
  • Bartra, A. (2008). “From Utopian Luddism to Scientific Luddism” in The Iron Man. Social and natural limits of capital in the perspective of the great crisis. Mexico.
  • Borras Jr, S.; KAY, C., GÓMEZ, S.; WILKINSON, J. Land grabbing and capitalist accumulation: key aspects in Latin America, in Interdisciplinary Journal of Agrarian Studies No. 38, 2 pp 75-103
  • Borras, S. (2010) The politics of global land grabbing. Rethinking land issues, redefining resistance. ICAS, working paper Series No 001
  • Domínguez, D. (2012). “Repeasantization in 21st Century Argentina.” Psicoperspectivas, 11(1).
  • Federici, Silvia 2010. Caliban and the Witch: Women, Bodies and Primitive Accumulation. Madrid: Traficantes de sueños. Chapters
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  • FERNANDES, BERNARDO M.; CASSUNDE, JRO; IZA, L. Movimentos socioterritoriais no MATOPIBA e na Chapada do Apodi: exemplos da questão agrária neoliberal do século XXI. OKA GEOGRAFIA EM DEBATE (UFPB). , v.12, p.533 - 548, 2018
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If you have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

  • Paying in one payment: USD 95 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
If you have a link with a Network or Institution Associated with CLACSO:
  • Paying in one payment: USD 140 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
 If you do NOT have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:
  • Paying in one payment BEFORE 07/06/2020: USD 150 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
  • Paying in one payment: USD 190 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

FAQ

The basic requirements for taking a seminar are:

  • Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
  • Internet access.
  • Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
  • Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages ​​are Spanish and Portuguese.
The seminars last 12 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. 48 hours of work with the instructor and 120 hours of total dedication will be credited.
A course consists of twelve classes, each accompanied by required readings, supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is delivered online and asynchronously. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In these cases, the time and date will be agreed upon in advance between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation. To pass the seminar, students must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the instructors, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.

If you have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

  • Paying in one payment: USD 95 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
If you have a link with a Network or Institution Associated with CLACSO:
  • Paying in one payment: USD 140 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
 If you do NOT have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:
  • Paying in one payment BEFORE 07/06/2020: USD 150 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
  • Paying in one payment: USD 190 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
The possible payment methods are credit card, bank transfer and bank deposit.