Borders and margins in focus: spatial contradictions in Central America and Mexico

Abstract

This thematic section employs a diverse panorama of empirical cases with the intention to offer evidence of the strategic character of borders and margins, along which biophysical (land, water and jungles) and human resources (work, knowledge and livelihoods) are incorporated into specific forms of capital accumulation. Simultaneously, situated knowledges allow the authors to highlight the forms of dispossession, exclusion and/or subordination, as well as the production of the social and environmental vulnerabilities related to the agrarian and socioenvironmental changes and transitions of the 20th and 21st centuries, which often grant the frontier and the peripheries, its marginal character.