INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL ISSUE: FOOD, TERRITORY, TERRITORIALITIES, BODY, STRUGGLES, AND RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Currently, Latin America and the Caribbean are home to approximately 60 million Indigenous people and more than 130 million Afro-descendants and members of traditional communities. Although these peoples—including riverine communities, quilombola communities, extractivist populations, and other traditional groups—protect approximately 80% of the region’s biodiversity, they continue to face historical and structural forms of violence on a systematic basis.
In the most dangerous region in the world for the defense of land and territories, amid alarming labor precarization, insufficient access to public services, discrimination, land conflicts, food insecurity, water scarcity, processes of deterritorialization, and socio-environmental inequalities, practices of resistance, collective care, and the defense of life continue to emerge, led by women, traditional communities, and Indigenous peoples.
It is within this context that Revista Presença Geográfica invites submissions for the Special Issue:
FOOD, TERRITORY, TERRITORIALITIES, BODY, STRUGGLES, AND RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEANThis Special Issue aims to bring together scientific articles, essays, experience reports, and theoretical reflections that engage with the following thematic areas:
- Food sovereignty and food security;
- The right to water and the defense of the commons;
- Body-territory and territorialities of care;
- Territorial conflicts and community resistance;
- Indigenous women and political leadership;
- Environmental and spatial justice;
- Ancestral practices of cultivation, food production, and healing;
- Territorial violence, hunger, and inequalities;
- The construction of safe spaces and the defense of life;
- Afro-descendant, peasant, and traditional territorialities;
- Ecologies of resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The coordination of this Special Issue is composed of researchers from Brazil and Mexico affiliated with institutions of recognized academic excellence. Their work encompasses themes related to territory, body-territory, food systems, Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, socio-environmental justice, and territorial resistance, contributing to the strengthening of scientific cooperation networks and intercultural dialogue throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Prof. Dr. Suzanna Dourado da Silva – IGg/UNAM
- Prof. Dr. María José Ibarrola Rivas – IGg/UNAM
- Dr. Guillermo Castillo Ramírez – IGg/UNAM
- Dr. Luis Bracamontes Nájera – IGg/UNAM
- Prof. Dr. Rachel Dourado da Silva – SENAC/Amapá
- Prof. Dr. Hellen Virgínia da Silva Alves – SENAC/Rondônia
- Prof. Dr. Maria das Graças Silva Nascimento Silva – PPGG/UNIR
- Prof. Dr. Josué da Costa e Silva – PPGG/UNIR
This call invites researchers, Indigenous and Afro-descendant intellectuals, members of social movements, activists, and communities to share perspectives that understand territory not merely as a material space, but also as a vital dimension of existence, memory, food, water, the body, and the continuity of life itself.
EDITORIAL INFORMATIONManuscripts must comply with the current ABNT standards and the editorial guidelines of Revista Presença Geográfica, available at:
http://www.periodicos.unir.br/index.php/RPGeo/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
- Articles may have a maximum of four authors;
- Each author may participate in one article as the lead author and in up to two articles as a co-author;
- Submission period: June 2026 to September 2026;
- Expected publication of the Special Issue: October 2026.
All submissions must be made exclusively through the online submission system of Revista Presença Geográfica.
ATTENTIONAt the time of submission, authors must inform the Editor, in the field “Comments for the Editor”, that the manuscript is intended for evaluation in the Special Issue:
FOOD, TERRITORY, TERRITORIALITIES, BODY, STRUGGLES, AND RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Authors are also requested to indicate the thematic area with which their manuscript is associated.
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