Olaf Kaltmeier

There has been a worldwide boom of refeudalisation: Billionaires are becoming presidents of states, luxury consumption is rising just as dramatically as social inequalities, and a culture of political and socio-economic isolation is emerging. In Latin America, this tendency is also linked to a striking shift to the right in the political sphere, which - symbolized by the rise of white, rich men - increasingly defames indigenous people, the poor and...

Biodiversity should not be understood in biological terms only and as a thing apart from society, but rather as biocultural diversity present in the social world and in various cultures. Such a perspective might allow to relieve social conflicts as well as abuses of power, and slow the appropriation of the biosphere. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on biodiversity in the main macro-regions of Latin America...

Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to the dynamics of colonization, spatial appropriation, and the commodification of land. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on land use in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions touch upon numerous aspects,...