PUBLICATIONS

Here, you will find an overview over all our articles and chapters in edited volumes published in 2019. Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt Burchardt, H.-J. (2019). Well-Being: A Latin American Response to the Socio-Ecological Crisis. Mother Pelican: A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability 15(5). Dr. Kristina Dietz Dietz, K. (2019). Contesting …

Here, you will find an overview over all our articles and chapters in edited volumes published in 2018. Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt Burchardt, H.-J. (2018). How Spinoza and Elias Help to Decenter Our Understanding of Development: A Methodical Research Proposal on the Pluriverse. In Reiter, B. (Ed.). Constructing the Pluriverse: …

Where do the Americas begin, and where do they end? What is the relationship between the spatial constructions of «area» and «continent»? How were the Americas imagined by different actors in different historical periods, and how were these imaginations – as continent, nation, region – guided by changing agendas and …

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research. It combines the Caribbean and Central America into a single comparative research that explores the historical (from the conquista onwards) as well as contemporary …

Here, you will find an overview over all our articles and chapters in edited volumes published in 2017. Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt Burchardt, H.-J. & Stefan Peters (2017). Der Neo-Extraktivismus in Lateinamerika nach dem Rohstoffboom, In Burchardt, H.-J. & Peters, S. (Eds.). Umwelt und Entwicklung in globaler Perspektive: Ressourcen – …

The future of the 21st century will be decided on the core issues of environment and inequality. Development policy is still timid in its response to these challenges. To a large extent, it continues to be committed to the growth imperative and tries to shape the world according to the …

Environmental issues are gaining importance for international politics. In practice, however, ecological concerns often appear as paper tigers compared to the growth imperative. This book uses the example of raw materials policy to discuss the political, economic and social consequences of intensified raw materials exploitation and the associated socio-ecological conflicts. …

This book empirically discusses recent struggles over land and mining, exploring state-society relations conflicts on various scales. In contrast with the existing literature, analyses in this volume deliberately focus on large-scale land use changes both in relation to the expansion of industrial mining and to agro-industry. The authors contend that …

When studying remittances, one needs to integrae the micro dynamics of remittances while equally shining a spotlight on the entire macro flow. Both levels can be combined in a spatial perspecitive on economic spaces that emerge out of the flow of remittances. Processes of deterritorialization as well as of reterritorialization …