Multiple environmental crises and persistent patterns of intersecting inequalities are major global concerns. This edited volume contributes to a better understanding of environments of inequality by examining their various formations and expressions, from the colonial period to the present, with a strong (but not exclusive) focus on the Americas. The nine case studies especially reflect on the interrelationship between social inequality and the natural environment. The authors address crises, conflicts, and comparisons of inequalities from various disciplinary and regional perspectives. The volume has three thematic sections: first, conflicts and contests over resources and territory; second, crises of environmental politics; and third, constructions of inequality: discourses of disruption. Drawing on ongoing innovative research projects, the chapters in this volume discuss highly relevant issues and show that intersectionality is key to understanding environmental inequalities.
Ann-Kathrin Volmer (Ed.)
Research Associate at Bielefeld University. Co-Managing Director CALAS.
Mario Peters (Ed.)
Research Fellow German Historical Institute Washington.
Olaf Kaltmeier (Ed.)
Olaf Kaltmeier is Professor of Ibero-American History at the University of Bielefeld and Director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS). He is co-spokesperson of the BMBF research project "The Americas as an Intertwined Space". His research focuses on Latin and inter-American history, social movements, ethnicity in historical change, environmental history and constellations of power and domination in the context of globalisation.
Environments of Inequality: Crises, Conflicts, Comparisons
Olaf Kaltmeier, Mario Peters and Ann-Kathrin Volmer
Conflicts and Contestation over Resources and Territory
Rivers of Resistance: Resource Conflict and Rural Organizing in the Americas
Jacey Christine Anderson
Crises and Contestation: Territorio, Comunas and Black Territorial Struggle in Northern Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Tathagato Ganguly
The Politics of Presence of Black Women Politicians in Brazil. Reclaiming ‘Political Representation’ as a Territory to be Occupied
Livia de Souza Lima
Crisis of Environmental Politics
Socio-Legal Mobilizations and Environmental Social Movements in the Anthropocene
Ángela María Ocampo Carvajal
Living in the Agricultural Frontier: Land, (Re)Production, and Capital Relations of Soy Farming in Bolivia during Climate Change
Marie Jasser
Corporate Strategies on “Sustainable” Lithium Extractivism: The Emergence of a Lithium Consensus in the Salar de Atacama
Nina Schlosser
Construction of Inequalities: Discourses of Disruption
The Mediated Construction of the October 2018 Migrant Caravan: Media-Related Practices and the Building of a Migration Movement
José Antonio Romero López
Caste, Gender and Environmental Injustices in India’s Urban Peripheries: Intersectional Inequalities, Decolonial Praxis
Eren Devrim
Comparing Conflicts: Racialized Crisis in Cuba in the Early Republic
Angela Eva Gutierrez
