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Green wars : conservation and decolonization in the Maya forest / Megan Ybarra.

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"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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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Ybarra, Megan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Kekchi Indians > Land tenure > Maya Forest.
Kekchi Indians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Maya Forest.
Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North) > Government relations > History.
Decolonization > Maya Forest.
Maya Forest > Conservation.
Natural resources > Maya Forest > Management.
Decolonization.
Kekchi Indians > Land tenure.
Natural resources > Management.
Central America > Maya Forest.
History.
Table of 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.

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