Jairo Baquero MeloUniversidad del Rosario | UR · School of Human Sciences
Jairo Baquero Melo
Dr Phil in Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
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Introduction
Jairo Baquero-Melo currently works at the School of Human Sciences, Universidad del Rosario. Dr Baquero-Melo does research in social inequalities, rural studies, development studies, armed conflict, peace studies, political economy, social theory and research methods. His current projects address topics such as agrarian conflicts, armed conflicts, peacebuilding, DDR, commodities and agri-food systems.
Additional affiliations
January 2015 - October 2020
May 2014 - November 2014
July 2010 - April 2014
desiguALdades.net network. Freie Universität Berlin, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Position
- PhD Student
Education
July 2010 - April 2014
September 2007 - February 2009
Autonomous University of Madrid
Field of study
- International Relations and African Studies
August 2003 - December 2005
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Publications (46)
The purpose of this study is to add to our understanding of the effects of agrarian transformations on peasants’ identities and economic empowerment in a context of ethnically based expansion of land rights and agribusiness. By focusing on recently granted rural land rights and the expansion of palm oil plantations in Colombia, the effects of the i...
Since the 1990s, thousands of Afro-descendants have been benefited with collective land rights in Colombia. However, many peasants were violently displaced to introduce industrial crops. And several groups of peasants have resisted those land grabs. By studying these processes, this book analyzes various paradoxes of recent development policies: th...
This study analyses the local labour control regimes (LCRs) in the workplaces of global production networks. Using the ethnographic approach, it examines the control strategies utilized by several stakeholders in coffee production and consumption sites in Colombia. The results demonstrate that transformations in the value chains have changed LCRs d...
En este artículo analizo el papel de la territorialización y las infraestructuras en los procesos de reincorporación de firmantes de la paz en Colombia, a partir del caso del ETCR de la vereda El Oso en Gaitania, Tolima. Estudio las experiencias de reincorporación, individuales y sociales en el ETCR y la región, en los lugares habitados por los fir...
Por medio del análisis de información recolectada en trabajo de campo, este artículo estudia los procesos que han afectado a dos subregiones del sur del Tolima en el centro de Colombia. Se estudian los casos de Planadas y del Triángulo del Tolima como escenarios de la violencia del conflicto armado desde mediados del siglo XX, involucrando a guerri...
This book results from papers presented at the workshop “Rethinking enclosures in Colombia from a regional and global context. The role of territory, coloniality, and temporality,” held at the Universidad del Rosario in 2018. The texts were enhanced by exchanges and debates during the workshop and by writing each chapter in dialogue with comments a...
El presente libro se basa en las presentaciones realizadas en el taller “Repensando los Cercamientos en Colombia desde un Contexto Regional y Global. El papel del Territorio, la Colonialidad y la Temporalidad”, llevado a cabo, en 2018, en la Universidad del Rosario. Los textos fueron enriquecidos por los intercambios y los debates que se dieron dur...
Colombia desde las regiones es una propuesta editorial que surgió del interés por pensar nuestro país a partir de las formas de vida de las zonas invisibles para una tradición centralista, no solamente en las formas de gobierno, sino en las prácticas de reconocimiento cultural y social. Para desarrollar esta iniciativa, consideramos pertinente la p...
Las paces construidas desde los territorios son resultado de la interacción entre los procesos de reconocimiento/alineamiento estatal, de la presencia de los actores violentos y de las dinámicas de autonomía local. Los capítulos que componen este libro amplían, profundizan y problematizan estos ejes. Cada capítulo aborda y ofrece un panorama muy ri...
Este capítulo describe los procesos de poblamiento en la Región del Tolima Grande, incluyendo la población indígena precolonial, el poblamiento de Neiva y Mariquita, el poblamiento durante el Estado Soberano del Tolima, y procesos relacionados con la violencia, la colonización relacionada con procesos económicos, los impactos de la violencia y la m...
Se desarrolló una metodología que permitiera promover el reconocimiento de los saberes y conocimientos presentes en las organizaciones sociales del sur del Tolima y el occidente de Huila, los cuales han tenido un impacto positivo en la mejora de la producción, transformación y comercialización de cultivos como café, cacao, así como de distintos cul...
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Este libro analiza los conflictos agrarios y las dinámicas territoriales que afectan al Departamento del Huila y el sur del Tolima, en relación al conflicto armado y en medio de la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz. El libro agrupa varios trabajos que analizan procesos que incluyen la histórica configuración territorial del Huila y sur del...
El Acuerdo de paz busca "atender" las causas del conflicto armado en Colombia mediante la reducción de las desigualdades regionales, por medio de la "paz territorial". Conseguir una "paz estable y duradera" pasa por transformar las economías de guerra en economías de paz, macro, micro y meso-económicamente, disminuyendo las brechas socioeconómicas...
En este panel llevado a cabo en el marco del evento “Enlazados por la paz” segunda edición 2018, intervienen 4 panelistas invitados: Primero se presenta el Dr. Guy Lamb, Director de la iniciativa de Seguridad y Violencia. University of Cape Town, Sudáfrica con el título de la ponencia: “Cosechamos lo que sembramos: Paz desarrollo e inseguridad rura...
Las desigualdades sociales se han estructurado en procesos económicos y políticos de larga duración vinculados a la formación del sistema-mundo. No solo se han configurado desigualdades de clase, como lo plantearon algunos sociólogos clásicos, sino además desigualdades basadas en las categorías de raza, etnicidad y género. La perspectiva estándar y...
In this article I analyse the relationship between rurality and middle classes. Few recent studies on middle classes have examined the role of rurality within middle class expansion processes at the global scale. I conducted a critical analysis of rurality and the middle classes in light of a recent proliferation of studies on global middle classes...
Cambridge Core - Human Rights - Transnationalisation of Social Rights - edited by Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Kolja Möller
Este artículo analiza la articulación entre cadenas globales de valor, desigualdades sociales y vulnerabilidad. Se propone una perspectiva analítica y metodológica sobre vulnerabilidad socioecológica y socioeconómica en cadenas de valor agrícola; se analiza el caso de la cadena de valor del plátano en Colombia, que ha ganado importancia económica g...
Este artículo analiza los conceptos de desigualdades superpuestas, capas de desigualdad e interseccionalidad. A partir de la revisión de literatura, se propone un esquema analítico fundamentado en tres enfoques: uno geológico/histórico-temporal de las desigualdades, otro acumulativo de las desigualdades y un enfoque acumulativo complejo de las desi...
Special Issue of forum for inter-american research (=fiar 8.3 December 2015)
Several processes have affected the regions of Latin America in recent decades: There has been an expansion of land rights based on the communalization of land tenure, which have turned into ‘territorial rights’. This produced social movements that have utilized territory as a stake in their struggles. Also, there has been an expansion of capitalis...
Many factors explain the current increasing visibility of land conflicts in Latin America. To begin with, this intensification involves a re-configuration of conflicts that date back to the European colonisation of Latin America and to the expropriation from the original populations during this period. Over the centuries, these conflicts have taken...
This essay explores the spatial turn in global history by analyzing portals of globalization, literature on the territorialism of capitalism, megaprojects as mechanisms of displacement, interoceanity, and postcolonial approaches to environmental history. The historical case of the Panama Canal and the contemporary proposals for a dry canal in Colom...
Government policies and practices of land restitution may impede Colombia's peace process. Given the rural origin of the contemporary Colombian armed conflict, peacebuilding and land restitution policies are linked. Based on a qualitative study undertaken by the author, this article analyses regional challenges to the implementation of land restitu...
This panel aims to analyze (among others) the following processes:
- The structuration of inequalities of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and nationality within “food value chains” and their processes which include the production, commercialization, distribution, preparation, and consumption of food products;
- The inequalities produced by the agri...
Este capítulo analiza los conflictos por tierras y territorios que han tenido lugar en la región del Bajo Atrato chocoano desde la irrupción de la violencia en 1997. Dicha región, habitada primordialmente por grupos indígenas, afrodescendientes y mestizos, ha sido el escenario de procesos masivos de despojo de tierras y desplazamiento forzado de po...
The plantain is an important agricultural product worldwide. It is the staple food of millions of people , and represents a source of incomes for farmers participating in the international trade. In Colombia , the exportation plantain is chiefly harvested by small-scale farmers. However , they are in a position of vulnerability , facing several ris...
This article presents an analysis of processes of social mobilization and resistance in the lower Atrato region, Colombia. Inhabitants of this region are mainly Afrodescendants who have sought to defend the territorial rights and collective titling that were legally established in the 1990s. However, the arrival of paramilitaries and the introducti...
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Using the decomposition procedure propossed by Oaxaca (1973) applied to data extracted from the National Household Survey (1984 – 1999), this document presents a new estimation of wage discrimination by gender. An male-possitive wage differential is detected which is not explained by productivity factors. We suggest to test the relationship that co...
The purpose of this document is to present a survey of the main theoretical frameworks that deal with the subject of labour discrimination, along with a pedagogical description of the different . A particular chapter is devoted to present the consequences of discrimination for youth of some Latin American countries. Finally we present a survey on t...
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Projects (4)
This project (developed between 2016 and 2018) aimed at analyzing value chains in regions affected by the armed conflict in Colombia. By studying the coffee value chain in municipalities in Huila and South Tolima, this project sought to analyze the relationship between the coffee economy, the armed conflict, and recent process of peacebuilding. A main goal of this research was to study the reconstruction of the social tissue in regions affected by the war. Main findings of this project are: First, there are intense processes of formation of rural associations to advance the production and commercialization of quality coffee. Amid a global crisis of the coffee economy, local strategies of coffee growers include the production of their own trademarks to add value, seeking to reach higher benefits from the chain. Second, there are local processes of coffee production that are including participation of excombatants at the South of Tolima. Socioeconomic processes around the coffee economy have potential (although limited) effects to reconstruct the social tissue in war-torn regions. It also has potential to re-connect rural and urban populations (formerly separated by and during the war) through the commercialization of quality coffee.
After six decades of violent confrontations between state and non-state armed actors, Colombia has recently taken decisive steps towards a sustainable peacebuilding process. The 2016 peace agreements, between Colombia’s government and the guerrilla groups, are critical achievements to sustain the country’s further economic and political development; in addition, they offer an opportunity for redistributive policies and environmental protection. However, and on the downside of this recent shift in peacebuilding, we witness new, investment-driven expansions of resource extractivism, agribusiness, tourism and unequal infrastructural and urban development as well as exclusionary conservationist projects to post-conflict zones. While promising political and economic stability the peace agreement increasingly attracts international capital to exploit the country’s resources. Colombia’s evolving towards a long-lasting internal peace thus alters the country’s place in global capitalism.
In this book, 13 scholars and representatives of nongovernmental organizations analyze Colombia’s ongoing transformation from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Analyzing the peacebuilding process in its territorial expression, historical trajectories and material implementation provides fresh perspectives on Latin America’s social and economic development, in particular, in post-conflict societies. This way, this publication seeks to rethink the contested ways in which the commodification of nature, (im)material objects and social relations affect the historically persistent social inequalities in Latin America, as well as this region’s place in globalization.
