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This research was possible thanks to the funding provided by European Union-Action 2-Erasmus Mundus Partnerships, grant agreement number 2014-0870/001-001. We wish to thank the anonymous reviewers and editors at LAPS for their constructive comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this manuscript and their rigorous evaluation.

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Hurtado-Hurtado, CarolinaCorresponding AuthorOrtiz-Miranda, DionisioAuthor

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October 10, 2024
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The Legal Contention for Baldios Land in the Colombian Altillanura

Publicated to:Latin American Politics And Society. 65 (2): PII S1531426X22000383-82 - 2023-05-01 65(2), DOI: 10.1017/lap.2022.38

Authors: Hurtado-Hurtado, Carolina; Ortiz-Miranda, Dionisio; Arnalte-Alegre, Eladio

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Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Econ & Social Sci, Valencia, Spain - Author

Abstract

This article describes the process of legal contention between civil society, political parties, and state institutions for the baldios lands in the Colombian Altillanura region in the last two decades, a region considered the country's "last agricultural frontier." The article focuses on the dual and sometimes contradictory roles of the state institutions, both as facilitators of baldios grabbing and as guarantors of the peasants' legal land rights. It analyzes the different attempts by the Colombian government to remove the legal limitations to land accumulation and the resistance put up by civil society and the political parties, which resorted to the existing legal mechanisms to deactivate those attempts. The results reveal the two-sided role of the state: while the government introduces legal changes to facilitate baldios grabbing, state bodies are actively denouncing and sanctioning illegalities or ruling in favor of peasants deprived of their lands.

Keywords

Baldios landCivil societyColombiColombiaDisplacementDispossessionInstitutional frameworkLaboLarge-scale land acquisitionLegal contentionLegislationLocal governmentParty politicsPolitical development

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Latin American Politics And Society due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 18/176, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Area Studies. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.41. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 4.77 (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-06, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 1

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-06:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 13.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 19 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.25.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Hurtado Hurtado, Carolina) and Last Author (Arnalte-Alegre, Eladio).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Hurtado Hurtado, Carolina.