Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador

Wealth and access of land in the 21st century: elites in territorial development in the Andean region

The project addresses the notion of political constellations, from the analysis of the role of elites as actors of territorial governance structures, and the articulation between actors involved in extractive mining activities and landowning elites.

The Banana Elites: Historiographical study of the consolidation of banana plantations in the province of Guayas, Ecuador, between 1890 and 1930

The project analyzes the hacienda owners and their influence on the regional social and political fabric in the province of Guayas between 1890 and 1930, before the boom of the banana industry. It will consider land as a capital that allowed an elite to influence social, cultural, political and economic interactions.

The role that landowning elites play in land use planning processes and in territory development strategies: a comparative analysis between Ecuador and Colombia during the neoliberal period

The project studies the role of landowning elites in Ecuador and Colombia in land use planning processes and territorial development strategies.

Metal mining and agrarian elites. New dynamics of concentration and land grabbing

The project analyzes the relationships between mining actors and landowning elites in the context of the development of mining projects and how land plays an important role in the process of capital reproduction.