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Questions about how human-environment-relations can be conceptualized in a non-dualistic way have been intensively discussed throughout the last decades. The majority of the established realist and constructivist perspectives aim at explaining a given situation by analytically dissecting it. Unfortunately, such an interactionist perspective systematically reproduces the dualistic division between humans, environment and nature. In contrast, this paper offers a transactive perspective origin in classical pragmatism and discusses its meta-theoretical consequences for human-environment-research. A transactionist perspective interprets the world as a flow of unique and entangled events. Instead of ontologically separating humans and environment, it advocates to look at their relations as being part of a "connatural world". Such a point of view raises new ethical and political questions for geographical human-environment research, argues for a renaissance of ideographic methodologies and hints to a fruitful unity of geographical inquiry.

"Die ethnische Vielfalt Lateinamerikas gilt als Chance und Reichtum. Doch das Zusammentreffen verschiedener Weltanschauungen, Traditionen und Lebensformen wirft komplexe soziokulturelle, politische und rechtliche Fragen auf. Nach einer jahrhundertelangen kulturellen, sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Marginalisierung indigener Völker begannen diese Gesellschaften, sich der Notwendigkeit bewusst zu werden, das kulturelle Erbe der Ureinwohner anzuerkennen und zu pflegen." (Autorenreferat)

La presente publicación es resultado de un proyecto de reflexión de largo plazo, los contenidos del Comentario a la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos reflejan la jurisprudencia más relevante en la materia, hasta el segundo semestre de 2012