Introduction : Death and a (Land?) Motive -- Identity, Labor, and the Banana Economy -- Development and Territorialization on the North Coast -- Mestizo Irregularities, Garifuna Displacement, and the Emergence of a "Mixed" Garifuna Community -- Gendered Rights and Responsibilities : Privatization and Women's Land Loss in Sambo Creek -- Representing the Garifuna: Development, Territory, Indigeneity, and Gendered Activism -- Roots, Rights, and Belonging in Sambo Creek -- "Businessmen Disguised as Environmentalists" : Neoliberal Conservation in Garifuna Territory -- Research Voluntourism as Rights-Based Conservation : Could It Work? -- Neoliberalism's Limit Points in Post-Coup Honduras -- Conclusion : Counterpunches to "Honduras Is Open for Business"
Summary
This book is an ethnographic account of the relationship between identity politics, neoliberal development policy, and rights to resource management in Garifuna communities on the north coast of Honduras, before and after the 2009 coup d’état
