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OverviewGuatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic inequality, and rapid deforestation. Faced with these threats, local residents, conservationists, scientists, and NGOs in the region work within what Micha Rahder calls ""an ecology of knowledges,"" in which interventions on the MBR landscape are tied to differing and sometimes competing forms of knowing. In this book, Rahder examines how technoscience, endemic violence, and an embodied love of wild species and places shape conservation practices in Guatemala. Rahder highlights how different forms of environmental knowledge emerge from encounters and relations between humans and nonhumans, institutions and local actors, and how situated ways of knowing impact conservation practices and natural places, often in unexpected and unintended ways. In so doing, she opens up new ways of thinking about the complexities of environmental knowledge and conservation in the context of instability, inequality, and violence around the world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Micha RahderPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9781478006107ISBN 10: 1478006102 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 15 May 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgements xii Introduction. What on Earth Is a Nooscape? 1 Learning How to See 10 1. The Many Worlds of the Maya Biosphere Reserve 13 Silences of Memory 32 I. Double Visions: Technoscience and Paranoia 2. Eye of the Storm 37 Corrupted Data 57 3. Mapping Gobernabilidad 59 Gender and Violence 92 4. But Is It a Basin? 94 Peteneros and Other Endemic Species 116 II. Patchiness and Fragmentation 5. A Reserve Full of Rooftops 121 Parks, Poverty, People 152 6. Fire at the Edge of the Forest 155 Death of a Dog 185 III. Composing and Composting Knowledges 7. A Known Place 189 Certainty Emerges 216 Apocalypse Soon! 245 9. Nine / Redd+Queen Futures 247 Modest Interventions 265 Afterword 268 Notes 273 References 287 Index 303ReviewsThis exceptionally well-written book details the complex interactions between people, nonhuman animals, organizations, and interests as they converge in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere. Micha Rahder's strongly grounded and fine-grained research reveals how conservation organizations work and how knowledge and uncertainty about nature, population, wildness, and frontiers operate. Although it charts a conservation failure, An Ecology of Knowledges is really about success: how people learn from process, create conservation consciousness and enact deep care. -- Diane M. Nelson, author of * Who Counts? The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide * An Ecology of Knowledges is replete with intriguing ethnographic material located at the crossroads of histories of violence and practices of conservation. Its themes and depictions of the problematic relation between state, ecology, globalization, and violence-along with its siting in a globally recognized ecological zone-are all extremely compelling features that will appeal to scholars and students, NGO workers, conservation officials, and even governmental organizations. -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds * Author InformationMicha Rahder is an independent scholar in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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