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... alternatives to working in the sugarcane fields and to affirm their right of access to and use of the resources on the properties where they had been enslaved. abolition post-emancipation social tension freedom citizenship Recôncavo Maracangalha Bahia rural labor land conflicts ...

... establishing isolated rural schools, and Aymara intellectuals crafted utopian manifestos demanding communal land, social justice, and political inclusion for Bolivia's “Indian race.” Aymara peasants caciques literacy rural schools ayllu land conflicts ...

... This chapter profiles the A´i Cofán People, whose traditional territories straddle the Colombia-Ecuador border, and their experience of colonization, natural resource extraction and exploitation on their land, the severing of their territory by the imposed land border, Colombian armed conflict...

..., and limit coffee cultivation, taking the land to sustain families while working to build the second American nation. This chapter details the conflicts that led to the hemisphere’s only black nation and explores the contradictions that followed as once-enslaved peoples worked to build families and household...

... This chapter analyzes conflicts at the cable landing point, the zone where undersea cables emerge from the deep ocean and extend through coastal waters, beaches, and local communities before connecting with cable stations. The chapter describes how, because these public spaces cannot be walled...

... This chapter provides an ethnographic account of representational conflict between a missionary, church-supported radio network serving the specific interests of northeast Arnhem Land’s Yolngu people, and TEABBA, who sought to reach a more diverse Indigenous audience that would include Yolngu...

... forums, or by attempting to depoliticize the ecological effects of these projects through technical media. Researchers have leveraged government and corporate funds for “conflict resolution” to generate new tools for land-based activism. However, many of these experiments have found prolonged and unruly...

... Chapter 2 examines how conflicts that erupted between burakumin and ippanmin communities following the Japanese government’s enactment of land enclosures in the 1920s produced and reinforced colonial sensibilities in the Ise region of Okinawa’s Mie prefecture—the religious heart...

... in art history, and in terms of Native American political sovereignty and land rights, as well as indigenous conceptions of nationhood in relation to the natural environment. This chapter also sketches a history of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, conflicts with non-Native settlers and the U.S. military...

... This chapter considers Llamojha’s efforts to defend his indigenous peasant community against the abuses of local landlords during the 1950s. He also traveled frequently to nearby communities to assist in their struggles for land, as conflicts between indigenous peasants and hacendados were...

... to study the transformation of land and the transformation of people. This chapter provides the context for contemporary resource development in Papua New Guinea, where development projects must benefit impacted customary groups, who, in the parlance of development discourse, are the landowners associated...

... Chapter 3 spins out the threads of sympoiesis in ecological evolutionary developmental biology and in art science activisms committed to four iconic troubled places: (1) coral reef holobiomes, (2) Black Mesa coal country in Navajo and Hopi lands and other extraction zones impacting indigenous...

... Despite an official end to armed conflict, the Jumma people along the colonially imposed borders of Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar continue to endure constant militarization and surveillance. This chapter argues that Bangladeshi governmental directives are used as a biopolitical mechanism...

... This chapter examines the tensions that emerged in the late nineteenth century between the first generation of Okinawa’s intellectuals and female weavers soon after the Miyako island peasantry. It focuses on the conflicts that took place between local advocates of the movement to reform old...

... The political project to transform Mumbai into an investment-friendly world-class city used market mechanisms to reconfigure the city’s built spaces and upgrade its infrastructures. “The market” presented a utopian solution to long-standing and intractable political struggles over land—struggles...

...Conquest and Colony Part III covers the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in the early sixteenth century. While Spanish accounts celebrate the heroism of the conquerors, native chronicles describe the initiation of a long period of forced labor and land loss, disease, and cultural...