CEDLA Amsterdam17 mar 20212 min.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...
CEDLA Amsterdam9 mar 20212 min.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...
CEDLA Amsterdam8 mar 20212 min.10/07/18 The market between disorder and informal organization The market between disorder and informal organization
CEDLA Amsterdam7 mar 20212 min.13/07/18 Resident-authority divides over crime and public securityThis divide between residents and authorities is perhaps most tangible when it comes to crime and public security. Guatemala seems to be...
CEDLA Amsterdam6 mar 20212 min.14/07/18 Nosotros y ellosWhen professionals in the urban area talk about rural resistance against Xela’s new territorial ordering plan (POT), often the difference...
CEDLA Amsterdam3 mar 20212 min.19/07/18 Waste dump of Xela, Guatemala Trash and hopeWhen we started our investigation more than a week ago, we talked about Xela’s infrastructure with three young directors of different...
CEDLA Amsterdam2 mar 20212 min.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...
CEDLA Amsterdam1 mar 20213 min.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,...