Environment and citizenship in Latin America : natures, subjects and struggles / edited by Alex Latta & Hannah Wittman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Latta, Alex, 1973-

Wittman, Hannah.

Series:

Latin America studies ; 101.

CEDLA Latin America studies (CLAS) ; 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ecology--Latin America.

Political ecology.

Citizenship--Latin America.

Citizenship.

Environmental policy--Citizen participation--Latin America.

Environmental policy.

Environmental protection--Citizen participation--Latin America.

Environmental protection.

Sustainable development--Latin America.

Sustainable development.

Nature and civilization--Latin America.

Nature and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Citizens, Society and Nature: Sites of Inquiry, Points of Departure; Assembling Nature's Citizens; Chapter 2 - Environmental Citizenship and Climate Security: Contextualizing Violence and Citizenship in Amazonian Peru; Chapter 3 - Multi-Scale Environmental Citizenship: Traditional Populations and Protected Areas in Brazil; Chapter 4 - 'Sin Maíz No Hay País': Citizenship and Environment in Mexico's Food Sovereignty Movement; Chapter 5 - Social Participation and the Politics of Climate in Northeast Brazil

Environmental Marginality and the Struggle for JusticeChapter 6 - Negotiating Citizenship in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala; Chapter 7 - Peru's Amazonian Imaginary: Marginality, Territory and National Integration; Chapter 8 - Citizenship Regimes and Post-Neoliberal Environments in Bolivia; Chapter 9 - Chile is Timber Country: Citizenship, Justice and Scale in the Chilean Native Forest Market Campaign; Citizens, Environmental Governance and the State; Chapter 10 - Access Denied: Urban Highways, Deliberate Improvisation and Political Impasse in Santiago, Chile

Chapter 11 - Environmental Collective Action, Justice and Institutional Change in ArgentinaChapter 12 - Environmentalism as an Arena for Political Participation in Northern Argentina; Chapter 13 - Legislating 'Rights for Nature' in Ecuador: The Mediated Social Construction of Human/Nature Dualisms; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-975-7

1-282-25425-1

9786613814906

0-85745-748-9

OCLC:

804662553