englischThis doctoral thesis shows how peasant social movements and government institutions negotiate access to and the use of natural resources, identity and territorio in the Colombian ecoregion of Macizo Colombiano in socio-ecological conflicts. This analysis also considers the historical and [...]

englischTruth commissions have increasingly pointed out the importance of schools for conflict transformation and social memory. However, the politics of education remains a rather marginal topic for peace and conflict studies. This comparative study investigates how social inequality, armed [...]

englischLatin American societies have historically been characterised by obscene inequality and have been repeatedly rocked by severe financial crises. Taking Argentina as an example, this book explores the systematic reasons for the abandonment of targeted taxation of wealth by Latin American [...]

englischThis book explores the imprint that the peace process involving the guerilla organisation FARC-EP left on Colombian TV fiction. To that end, it scrutinises the phenomenon of Colombian reconciliation telenovelas, which are intrinsically linked to the national Transitional Justice process. [...]

englischThe Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, JEP) is the judicial centrepiece of the country’s national Transitional Justice system. At the same time, the JEP is also at the centre of public controversies surrounding the Colombian peace process and is [...]

englischThe coronavirus pandemic has hit Latin America particularly hard. In no other region of the world have so many people been infected with the virus as here. Influenced by the pandemic, poverty and inequality have increased, the economic crisis has worsened and, in some countries, [...]

englischBy virtue of the soy boom Argentina, recovered faster from the economic crisis than any other country. But who has benefited from the abundance of this resource in such a globalised and hightech form of agriculture as that in Argentina? Addressing this question with qualitative research [...]

Klimawandel, Artensterben, massive Ressourcenausbeutung, Umweltverschmutzung, der Verbrauch nicht erneuerbarer, aber lebenswichtiger Elemente, all das sind Symptome einer planetarischen Krise, die die Ökosysteme – und damit auch den Menschen – gegenwärtig in ihrer Existenz bedrohen.Trotz ihrer [...]

englischBy focusing on a half-century of recent Latin American economic history, this book presents a multidisciplinary approach to examining the relentless pursuit of development in the Global South and aims to revitalise the academic debate on whether having abundant natural resources is a [...]

englischPostmillennial social reforms implemented by the centre-left governments in Latin America aimed to achieve a significant reduction in inequality. This case study analyses the process of regulating domestic work in Uruguayan households, an internationally praised political development. Based [...]