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Green wars : conservation and decolonization in the Maya Forest
- Title
- Green wars : conservation and decolonization in the Maya Forest / Megan Ybarra.
- Author
- Ybarra, Megan
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xii, 204 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Alternative Title
- Conservation and decolonization in the Maya Forest
- Subjects
- Maya Forest > Conservation
- Natural resources > Maya Forest > Management
- Kekchi Indians > Legal status, laws, etc > Maya Forest
- Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North) > Government relations > History
- Kekchi Indians > Land tenure > Maya Forest
- Rain forests > Guatemala
- Decolonization > Maya Forest
- Guatemala > Relations with Kekchi Indians
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Conservation and settler logics of elimination -- Making the Maya Forest -- We didn't invade the park, the park invaded us -- Rethinking Ladinos as settlers -- Taxing the Kaxlan: Q'eqchi' self-determination within and beyond the Settler State -- Narco-narratives and twenty-first-century Green Wars -- Conclusion: Decolonizing the Maya Forest, and beyond.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-3989
- ISBN
- 9780520295162
- 0520295161
- 9780520295186
- 0520295188
- LCCN
- 2017031822
- OCLC
- 994206085
- Author
- Ybarra, Megan, author.
- Title
- Green wars : conservation and decolonization in the Maya Forest / Megan Ybarra.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ybarra, Megan. Green wars. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520968035 (DLC) 2017034385
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-3989