Green wars: conservation and decolonization in the Maya forest

"Green Wars challenges international conservation efforts, revealing through in-depth case studies how "saving" the Maya Forest facilitates racialized dispossession. Megan Ybarra brings Guatemala's 36-year civil war into the perspective of a longer history of 200 years of settler...

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1. Verfasser: Ybarra, Megan (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California University of California Press [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:"Green Wars challenges international conservation efforts, revealing through in-depth case studies how "saving" the Maya Forest facilitates racialized dispossession. Megan Ybarra brings Guatemala's 36-year civil war into the perspective of a longer history of 200 years of settler colonialism to show how conservation works to make Q'eqchi's into immigrants on their own territory. Even as the post-war state calls on them to claim rights as individual citizens, Q'eqchi's seek survival as a people. Her analysis reveals that Q'eqchi's both appeal to the nation-state and engage in relationships of mutual recognition with other Indigenous peoples ... and the land itself ... in their calls for a material decolonization."...Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:xii, 204 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780520295162
9780520295186