GEOG 3600 Lecture 17: lec 17
24 Mar 2017
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Making latin america from colonization contemporary land rights. Creation of poverty (and wealth: colonization, apartheid, economic factors: debt, structural adjustment programs, corruption, mining industry. The construction of an (cid:494)african other(cid:495) its relationship to colonization. Its relationship to aid and charity campaigns: wilderness and resident africans, strategies to counter popular perceptions. Globalization: colonization and the creation of nation-states, rhino poaching. Racial as a social construct: apartheid, rwandan genocide. Making latin america from colonization contemporary land rights (cid:498)we didn(cid:495)t cross the border, the border crossed us(cid:499) beaches Where are you coming from when you feel justified to steal someones land: most good land given out as really large land grants to generals like cort s, and aristocrats. Mixed legacy of land reforms: very limited or no land reform (and often continued agitation today, brazil, paraguay, argentina, colombia, uruguay, honduras, ecuador, most or a lot land distributed, mexico, bolivia, cuba, nicaragua, chile (to 1973)
