Spatial Reconfiguration and Relocations After Disasters in Rural Contexts: The Case of Tacotalpa, Tabasco
Capitalist historical processes are described surrounding coffee exploitation by the local elite and the lifestyle they imposed on the ethnic Chol Indigenous people in northern Chiapas, Mexico. Part of the population of this region was displaced, as they
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asters and Neoliberalism Different Expressions of Social Vulnerability
Disasters and Neoliberalism
Gabriela Vera-Cortés Jesús Manuel Macías-Medrano •
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Editors Gabriela Vera-Cortés Departamento de Sociedad y Cultura El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Jesús Manuel Macías-Medrano Departamento de Cambio Sociocultural Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) Mexico City, Mexico
ISBN 978-3-030-54901-5 ISBN 978-3-030-54902-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54902-2
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Foreword
Rediscovering El Dorado: Latin American Contributions to Disaster Studies I am grateful to the editors, the authors, and the publisher of this collection of studies. They add substantially to the growing literature in English that focuses our attention on Latin America as a laboratory and pioneer of both forces that create disaster risk and efforts to expose those forces and to institutionalize resistance to them. This collection also advances the cause of decolonizing research in the Americas (Gaillard 2019). Most of the studies in this volume are based on fieldwork and historical observation in Mexico (with side journeys into Brazil, Italy, and the USA). These detailed studies add to other similar collections such as the free, online volume, Reduction of Vulnerability to Disasters: from knowledge to action (Marchezini et al. 2017) that combines offerings in Portuguese, Span
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