Universität Bielefeld

The Second Conquest. Land, nature and inequality in Latin America (1860s-1910s)

Rhythms of Re-solidarization in the Face of Violence: Frictions of collectivity and land in Milpa Alta

The project analyzes the resistance to the new General Land Reorganization Program (PGOT) in the case of Milpa Alta, Mexico City.

Practices of Territorial Care. An affective analysis of peasant collective strategies in the context of coffee cultivation

The project analyzes the responses of different communities and local organizations in the global south to the challenging conditions created by crises, understanding their ways of life and collective struggles from an affective perspective.

The last Länderkundler in the Tropics: German geography on agrarian colonization in Latin America from 1947 to 1975.

The project analyzes how the last generation of regional geographers (Länderkundler) reformulated classical concepts of German geography to explain agrarian colonization in Latin America between 1945 and 1970.

Agro-industrial corporations at the limits of the transformation of land into capital in Latin America. Entangled economic histories in the 20th century

The project analyzes the mechanisms used by KWS Saat and Nestlé to dispose of land in Latin America and their symbolic and ecological implications.

'Gran Cacao' and coloniality in the Caribbean: Land grabbing, wealth and power of the Tovars in Aragua, Venezuelay

This project does a collective biography of Tovar family, to investigate the appropriation and concentration of land in Aragua from the second half of the 19th century until the second decade of the 20th century, the consequent generation and accumulation of wealth, as well as the circumscription of these large estates within the global economic structure.