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09/07/18 CEDLA goes Xela! Testing joint fieldwork on commons in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
What? Today we start an exciting experiment: joint fieldwork on commons in Latin America. For the first time in CEDLA’s history, we are...
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11/07/18 Maya weaving as contemporary cultural commoning
Located at 21 Avenida in Zona 3, a huge hangar represents the dark history of Guatemala. Built as a tramway depot in 1930, it became a...
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10/07/18 The market between disorder and informal organization
The market between disorder and informal organization
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13/07/18 Resident-authority divides over crime and public security
This divide between residents and authorities is perhaps most tangible when it comes to crime and public security. Guatemala seems to be...
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14/07/18 Nosotros y ellos
When professionals in the urban area talk about rural resistance against Xela’s new territorial ordering plan (POT), often the difference...
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19/07/18 Waste dump of Xela, Guatemala Trash and hope
When we started our investigation more than a week ago, we talked about Xela’s infrastructure with three young directors of different...
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23/07/18 (Un)commoning the police: security in Xela’s barrios
“In our street, unfortunately next to our house, a clandestine bar has been functioning for the past 11 years, the owner of this bar is...
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23/07/18 Fragmentation and Commoning: Our last blog (for the moment)
Two weeks ago we engaged into an academic adventure. Driven by our curiosity about social changes in intermediate Latin American cities,...
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17/07/18 Long Live the Traveling Souls
The large Cementerio El Calvario of Quetzaltenango is the only public cemetery of Xela. Like most other urban cemeteries in Latin America...
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16/07/18 Good food?
We made a trip through Almolonga yesterday, an enclave of intensive vegetable farming production a few miles away from Xela. This trip...
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