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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ybarra, Megan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kekchi Indians--Land tenure--Maya Forest.

Kekchi Indians.

Kekchi Indians--Legal status, laws, etc--Maya Forest.

Decolonization--Maya Forest.

Decolonization.

Natural resources--Maya Forest--Management.

Natural resources.

Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North)--Government relations--History.

Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North).

Maya Forest--Conservation.

Maya Forest.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Global conservation efforts are celebrated for saving Guatemala's Maya Forest. This book reveals that the process of protecting lands has been one of racialized dispossession for the Indigenous peoples who live there. Through careful ethnography and archival research, Megan Ybarra shows how conservation efforts have turned Q'eqchi' Mayas into immigrants on their own land, and how this is part of a larger national effort to make Indigenous peoples into neoliberal citizens. Even as Q'eqchi's participate in conservation, Green Wars amplifies their call for material decolonization by recognizing the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the land itself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Conservation and Settler Logics of Elimination

1. Making the Maya Forest

2. We Didn't Invade the Park, the Park Invaded Us

3. Rethinking Ladinos as Settlers

4. Taxing the Kaxlan: Q'eqchi' Self-Determination within and beyond the Settler State

5. Narco-Narratives and Twenty-First-Century Green Wars

Conclusion: Decolonizing the Maya Forest, and Beyond

Notes

Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Ybarra, Megan, author. Green wars

ISBN:

9780520968035

0520968034

OCLC:

994263152