An ecology of knowledges : fear, love, and technoscience in Guatemalan forest conservation /

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"AN ECOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGES-based on Micha Rahder's ethnographic field work in the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), a jungle in northern Guatemala that has been a site for oil extraction, tourism, violence, and war-looks at how NGOs attempt to do conservation work in this contested and precario...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rahder, Micha, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:Experimental futures.
Subjects:
Forest conservation > Guatemala > Reserva de la Biosfera Maya.
Sustainable forestry > Guatemala > Reserva de la Biosfera Maya.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Forest conservation.
Sustainable forestry.
Reserva de la Biosfera Maya (Guatemala)
Guatemala > Reserva de la Biosfera Maya.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / What on Earth Is a Nooscape?
  • Learning How to See
  • One. The Many Worlds of the Maya Biosphere Reserve
  • Silences of Memory
  • Two / Eye of the Storm
  • Corrupted Data
  • Three Mapping Gobernabilidad
  • Gender and Violence
  • Four. But Is It a Basin?
  • Peteneros and Other Endemic Species
  • Five / A Reserve Full of Rooftops
  • Parks, Poverty, People
  • Six / Fire at the Edge of the Forest
  • Death of a Dog
  • Seven / A Known Place
  • Certainty Emerges
  • Eight / Wild Life
  • Apocalypse Soon!
  • Nine / REDD+ Queen Futures
  • Modest Interventions
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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