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Rethinking Enclosures from a Latin American Perspective: The Role of Territoriality and Coloniality

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: The concept of “enclosures” provides useful perspectives for thinking about social inequalities. In this paper, we overcome the conceptual limits posed by Polanyi’s focus on the particular history of England as the trigger of the global transformation of economy and society. We follow the recent critique made by Nancy Fraser that inner-societal conflicts resulting from enclosures need a more decided and explicit analysis. We argue that these can be best addressed from the perspective of coloniality and territoriality. As examples of this post-Polanyi approach, we present research results on contemporary enclosures represented by exclusive urbanism in Mexico, agricultural plantation expansion in Colombia and seed regulations in Argentina.

Authors: Müller, Frank, Baquero Melo, Jairo, Rauchecker, Markus Alexander, Segura, Ramiro

Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Language: English

Topic: Political Economy and Marxism

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

OpenAlex ID: W2553038564

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