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

Frank Müller, Jairo Baquero-Melo, Markus Rauchecker, Ramiro Segura – 2015

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.

Title
Rethinking Enclosures from a Latin American Perspective - The Role of Territoriality and Coloniality
Author
Frank Müller, Jairo Baquero-Melo, Markus Rauchecker, Ramiro Segura
Publisher
Iberoamericana / Vervuert
Location
Madrid / Frankfurt
Date
2015
Appeared in
desiguALdades.net, Working Paper No. 90
Type
Text