ISBN:
9780520295162
,
9780520295186
Language:
English
Pages:
204 S.
Parallel Title:
Online version Ybarra, Megan, author Green wars
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ybarra, Megan Green wars
DDC:
972.82/0049742
Keywords:
Kekchi Indians Land tenure
;
Kekchi Indians Legal status, laws, etc
;
Decolonization
;
Natural resources Management
;
Maya Forest Conservation
;
Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North) Government relations
;
History
;
Kekchi
;
Waldbesitz
;
Konflikt
;
Vertreibung
Abstract:
"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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
