Sam Halvorsen is a Reader in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. His research examines the role of territory in grassroots politics and, more broadly, political participation and democracy in Latin America cities. He has published widely in journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographies and the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. He is founder and chair of the Latin American Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society. He is currently editorial board member of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and Punto Sur and sits on the international editorial boards of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Journal of Latin American Geography and Third World Quarterly.

Chapter 1: Introducing Latin American Geographies. Sam Halvorsen

Part I: Core themes

Section 1 Historical and Colonial Geographies

Chapter 2: Decolonization and decoloniality. Federico Ferretti

Chapter 3: Borders and Territory. Perla Zusman

Section 2 Political Geographies

Chapter 4: Democracy. Sam Halvorsen and Fernanda Torres

Chapter 5: Geopolitics. Matthew C. Benwell and Andrés Núñez

Section 3 Economic and Urban Geographies

Chapter 6: Economies. Laura Sariego-Kluge

Chapter 7: Urbanization. Juan Miguel Kanai

Section 4 Development and Environmental Geographies

Chapter 8: (Post)Neoliberalism. Jean Grugel and Pía Riggirozzi

Chapter 9: International Migration and displacement. Marcia Vera Espinoza and Vania Reyes Muñoz

Chapter 10: Sustainable Development. Jessica Hope

Part II: Key Perspectives

Chapter 11: Dependency and Capitalism in Latin America. Chris Hesketh

Chapter 12: Decolonizing Territory. Rogerio Haesbaert and Sam Halvorsen

Chapter 13: Relational Indigenous Spatialities. Astrid Ulloa

Chapter 14: Feminist Geographies. Sofia Zaragocin

Chapter 15: Afro-descendant Geographies. Ana Laura Zavala Guillen and Nadia Mosquera Muriel

Part III: Uneven processes

Section 1 Ecologies

Chapter 16: Political ecology of cities and urbanization. Marcelo Lopes de Souza

Chapter 17: Socioecological Crises and Transitions. Maristella Svampa (trans. Sofia Negri)

Chapter 18: Health, Environment, and Disease. Eric D. Carter

Section 2 Urbanization

Chapter 19: Urban peripheries. Matthew A. Richmond

Chapter 20: Informality and Public Space. Veronica Crossa

Section 3 Resistances

Chapter 21: Social Movements. Renato Emerson dos Santos

Chapter 22: Agrarian Inequalities and Conflicts. Bernardo Mançano Fernandes

Chapter 23: The politicization of life. Mariana Arzeno and Mónica Farías