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Andres Leon Araya

@ALeonaraya

Anthropologist and political scientist @hamiltonlugar. Author of The Coup and the Palm Trees (@UGAPress). Monocrops | State formation | Central America

 San José Costa Rica
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Joined September 2011
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THE COUP AND THE PALM TREES will be out in the world in October (@UGAPress) and is now available for preorder. It interrogates the Honduran 2009 coup through an exploration of the country’s spatiotemporal trajectory of agrarian change since the 1930s. ugapress.org/book/9780820365…
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Check out this week's newsletter for reporting on Costa Rica by @ALeonaraya and an interview by @d_cholakian of @GuillaumeLong on the "Donroe Doctrine." Read as well about Cuba's blockade, Haiti's crisis, Argentine labor reform, Venezuelan oil, and more. nacla.salsalabs.org/feb_13_2…
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What's new on nacla.org

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Amidst rising fears of insecurity, Costa Ricans elected Laura Fernández, a continuity candidate whose predecessor presided over a political project that breaks with the country’s democratic traditions. Read Andrés León Araya's analysis for NACLA 🗳️ nacla.org/the-rise-of-rodrig…
The Rise of Rodriguismo in Costa Rica

The Rise of Rodriguismo in Costa Rica

Costa Ricans elected Laura Fernández, a continuity candidate whose predecessor presided over a political project that breaks with the country’s democratic traditions.

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Tracing longer histories in Costa Rica around import substitution, @ALeonaraya posits substitution as an index for passive revolution where everything changes only to remain the same. culanth.org/fieldsights/pine…
Pineapples and Substitution in Costa Rica

Pineapples and Substitution in Costa Rica

According to most dictionaries, substitution refers to the replacement of a person or object with another—a clear-cut shift from one order of thi...

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🌿Join us for a conversation with @pare_desu & @ALeonaraya about their new edited series "Plantation Methodologies: Questioning Scale, Space, and Subjecthood," along with Nicole Labruto and her contribution to this timely collection! April 25, 12-1 pm EDT shorturl.at/gkmFR
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Antipode@antipodeonline20 Mar 2024
Today's the day -- join us for the Antipode LDPI Lecture, "Social Reproduction and Surplus Populations of the Agrarian South", by @lyn_ossome cienciassociales.uniandes.ed… @diana_ojedao
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Diana Ojeda@diana_ojedao6 Mar 2024
If you're around, come join us! @Ostrom_Workshop
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Pinch me! I will be talking about my recent book by @UGAPress at my alma mater @GCcunyAnthro in February. If you are around NYC come say hi. Also, check out the rest of the amazing line up!
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Antipode@antipodeonline4 Jan 2024
Intervention Symposium — "Plantation Methodologies" — 12 #OpenAccess essays questioning scale, space, and subjecthood, edited by @pare_desu @chao_mh @ALeonaraya antipodeonline.org/2024/01/0…
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JPS@Peasant_Journal10 Oct 2023
Check out our new poster! #JPS50
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So this is happening!
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Julieta Rostica@JRostica1 Sep 2023
¿Qué explica la violencia política? ¿Por qué las violaciones a DDHH se asemejan en países latinoamericanos? ¿Por qué la desaparición forzada de personas atraviesa fronteras? A #40AñosDemocracia son preguntas que hacemos en @GTViolenciaCA/@gecaiealc [HILO 🧵] #HilandoCienciaCLACSO
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You can use the promotion code 08AUEV at checkout in ugapress.org for a 30% discount. Also, if you were wondering, the cover’s photo is by the talented @sberry_22.
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Diana Ojeda@diana_ojedao23 May 2023
this article by @akshattuck, @MWerner2010 and others is incredibly relevant: shows how global pesticide use *continues to increase* (contrary to @FAO analysis). also, how it was understimated for lower income countries. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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JPS@Peasant_Journal2 Mar 2023
We are celebrating JPS's 50th anniversary this year 🎉 Do you want to know what are the 50 most cited papers in the journal's history ⁉️ We released them for you. Free access ⚠️ peasantjournal.org/news/50th…

50th Anniversary Collection - Top 50 most cited articles in JPS - free access | Agrarian Conversa...

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New paper out in @Peasant_Journal's Key Concepts in Critical Agrarian Studies series! I examine the concept of monocrops in relation to processes of empire and conquest and the modernization of agriculture through the Green Revolution and beyond. tandfonline.com/eprint/DSMVA…
Monocrops

Monocrops

‘Monocrops’ is a key concept needed to understand agrarian dynamics today. Strictly speaking, it means cultivation of a single crop in a transformed and simplified landscape. Broadly, it means the ...

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Our most recent contribution dealing with issues of land use change and disease emergence. Here, we examine five common "myths" that are commonly taken by granted in the literature. At minimum they require a closer examination. link.springer.com/chapter/10…
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Our most recent paper: "Reifications in Disease Ecology 2: Towards a Decolonized Pedagogy Enabling Science by, and for, the People" with @gottdenk, Julie Runk and Luke Bergmann. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Reifications in Disease Ecology 2: Towards a Decolonized Pedagogy Enabling Science by, and for, the...

Reifications in Disease Ecology 2: Towards a Decolonized Pedagogy Enabling Science by, and for, the...

In the second half of this essay about reifications in disease ecology, drawing upon our experience, we propose ideas and practices for invigorating a disease ecology by, and for, the people, guide...

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La próxima semana tendremos sesión para hablar de las relaciones entre las fuerzas armadas centroamericanas y argentinas durante la Guerra Fría. Con @jrostica, Laura Sala y Lucrecia Molinari. 📅27 de setiembre 📍FB LIVE @lecturaistmica ⏰🇨🇷11:30 ⏰🇦🇷14:30
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