An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation - Couverture rigide

Rahder, Micha

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1478006102 ISBN 13 : 9781478006107

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Guatemala'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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Micha Rahder is an independent scholar in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478006102
• ISBN 13: 9781478006107
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible