| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| 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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Decolonization -- Maya Forest.
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Kekchi Indians -- Land tenure -- Maya Forest.
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Kekchi Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Maya Forest.
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Natural resources -- Maya Forest -- Management.
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Maya Forest -- Conservation.
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Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North) -- Government relations -- History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017034385 |
| ISBN |
0520968034 (electronic bk.) |
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9780520968035 (electronic bk.) |
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(cloth : alk. paper) |
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