Anthropogenic change has been associated with population growth, land use change, and changing economies. However, internal migration patterns and armed conflicts are also key drivers of anthropogenic and demographic processes. To better understand the processes associated with this change, we explore the spatial relationship between forced migration due to armed conflict and changing socioeconomic factors in Colombia, a country which has a recent history of 7 million internal migrants. In addition, we use remote sensing, Google Earth Engine, as well as spatial statistical analyses of demographic data in order to measure anthropogenic change between 1984 and 2013—a socio-politically important period in Colombia’s armed conflict. We also analyze spatiotemporal relationships between socioeconomic and anthropogenic changes, which are caused by forced migration. We found that forced migration is significantly and positively related to an increasing rural-urban type of migration which results from armed conflict. Results also show that it is negatively related to interregional displacement. Indeed, anthropogenic change pertaining to different regions have had different correlations with forced migration, and across different time periods. Findings are used to discuss how socioeconomic and political phenomena such as armed conflict can have complex effects on the dynamics of anthropogenic and ecological change as well as movement of humans in countries like Colombia.

In Colombia, the indigenous people are recognized as a special population and can establish self-governance regulations in their territories. Although this provision materialized with the Constitution of 1991, the spread of globalization and dynamics of domination around the world have created neocolonial challenges for native peoples. Such is the case of the indigenous reservations of Cañamomo Lomaprieta, which have experienced impositions when introducing their agricultural practices. These communities have organized resistance to consolidate food sovereignty respectful of their worldview. This research article aims to elucidate, based on decolonial and postcolonial approaches, the resistance processes undertaken by the Cañamomo Lomaprieta reservation in the Riosucio municipality as examples of responses to the neocolonial dynamics prevalent in the agribusiness economy today; transnational companies have been developing this economy in the third food regime. Practices such as the conservation of native seeds to avoid bioengineering are described, in addition to presenting ancestral methods to ensure that food, sustainable crops, and knowledge survive for a long time.

Basado en un análisis neo-realista y en contra posición a los planteamientos del soft power, este artículo estudia la política exterior brasileña respecto a posibles diseños hegemónicos regionales. La investigación examina avances cruciales en el poder militar del Estado sudamericano, pero también tiene en cuenta la capacidad demográfica y económica brasileña y su posibilidad de desarrollar armas nucleares, como elementos condicionantes para equilibrar el poder en el escenario global. El análisis se contextualiza en la estructura sistémica internacional, donde Estados Unidos, como la gran potencia, debe impedir que otros Estados adquieran poder.

Bajo la premisa de que la construcción histórica es siempre subjetiva, este libro reconstruye y cuestiona la historia convencional de la disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales, signada por una única perspectiva: la del Norte global, y específicamente la de Estados Unidos. Con ese n documenta una serie de hitos que han sido excluidos del relato y pone la lupa sobre formas de violencia que se encuentran en el origen de la disciplina pero han sido ignoradas por ella: el imperialismo y el racismo. El propósito es arrojar luz sobre el papel de la periferia en la historia y el desarrollo disciplinar de las Relaciones Internacionales, ahondando en el silenciamiento del Sur global, que se mani esta tanto en el ámbito práctico como en el académico. El autor recurre al dialogismo de Mijaíl Bajtín para dar voz a quienes no la han tenido, explorar nuevas narrativas y desmontar las prácticas académicas que han legitimado durante décadas formas de dominación.