Overview
A systematic and interdisciplinary approach to the conflicts and problems of different Latin American societies around the use of water over the long term, from colonial contact to the Great Acceleration, highlighting the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America.
Conflicts and struggles like urbanization processes and the productive use of water have impacted the relationship of Latin American and Caribbean societies with water for centuries. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on water in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions enrich contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.
- | Author: Ricardo Gutierrez, Susana Herrera Lima, Sofia Mendoza Bohne
- | Publisher: Transcript Verlag
- | Publication Date: Feb 20, 2025
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9783837670141
- | ISBN-10: 3837670147