Sense of place has become relevant in Latin America in recent decades. Although many
scholars have looked at people‐place relationships there, language barriers have limited …

Work in political ecology and related fields emphasizes the importance of subjectivities to
understand power relations and dynamics in nature-society interactions. In practice, though …

This article examines territorial disputes in the Palajunoj Valley of Quetzaltenango,
Guatemala's second largest city located in the western highlands. Drawing on our field …

Abstract With Supreme and Constitutional courts or tribunals playing an increasingly
significant role in shaping extractive policies in Latin America, scholars should turn their …

Guatemala is severely polluted with plastic waste, with open burning, illegal dumping, and
leaking landfills causing widespread harms. What actions, this article asks, are local people …

Between 1954 and 1996, the Guatemalan civil war and Mayan genocide led to the murder
or forced disappearance of 200,000 people, 150,000 Guatemalan refugees internationally …