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Author Ybarra, Megan, author.

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

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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 colonialism to show how conservation works to make Q'eqchi's into immigrants on their own territory. Even as the post-war state calls on them to claim rights as individual citizens, Q'eqchi's seek survival as a people. Her analysis reveals that Q'eqchi's both appeal to the nation-state and engage in relationships of mutual recognition with other Indigenous peoples -- and the land itself -- in their calls for a material decolonization."--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Kekchi Indians -- Land tenure -- Maya Forest.
Kekchi Indians -- Land tenure.
Kekchi Indians.
Kekchi Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Maya Forest.
Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North) -- Government relations -- History.
Decolonization -- Maya Forest.
Decolonization.
Maya Forest -- Conservation.
Natural resources -- Maya Forest -- Management.
Natural resources.
Management.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Ybarra, Megan. Green wars. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520295162 (DLC) 2017031822
ISBN 9780520968035 (electronic book)
0520968034 (electronic book)
9780520295162 (hardcover alkaline paper)