Maps and Fences: How development produced Patagonian spaces - Couverture souple

Solís, Patricia

 
9783330013049: Maps and Fences: How development produced Patagonian spaces
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3330013044 ISBN 13 : 9783330013049
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Development is inherently the purposeful re-creation of place. But how has a particular space become the setting for a certain problem for which a project intervenes? How have the set of solutions and practical activities come to be put in place? How are meanings inscribed and boundaries drawn to determine who are the stakeholders and whose voices will be heard in the project? How are they extended through space? How are all of these processes contested, negotiated and resisted? This book undertakes a case study of how, through renegotiation of spatial practices and of the meanings of spaces, an environment-development project geared to ‘combat desertification’ and the protest it spawned by a regional indigenous organization, has triggered a remaking and rethinking of Patagonia from within and without, in both discursive and material ways. The innovative methodology compels the reader to follow the maps and fences that construct real and conceptual boundaries around what is and is not development, to follow the metaphors connected to their deployment, and to follow the practitioners of development as they make and remake place.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Development is inherently the purposeful re-creation of place. But how has a particular space become the setting for a certain problem for which a project intervenes? How have the set of solutions and practical activities come to be put in place? How are meanings inscribed and boundaries drawn to determine who are the stakeholders and whose voices will be heard in the project? How are they extended through space? How are all of these processes contested, negotiated and resisted? This book undertakes a case study of how, through renegotiation of spatial practices and of the meanings of spaces, an environment-development project geared to ‘combat desertification’ and the protest it spawned by a regional indigenous organization, has triggered a remaking and rethinking of Patagonia from within and without, in both discursive and material ways. The innovative methodology compels the reader to follow the maps and fences that construct real and conceptual boundaries around what is and is not development, to follow the metaphors connected to their deployment, and to follow the practitioners of development as they make and remake place.

Biographie de l'auteur

Solís is Research Associate Professor of Geography, CoDirector of the Center for Geospatial Technology and affiliate of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech. Her research at the intersection of environment, development, youth, and technology has leveraged collaborations among scholars in 60+ countries, including her work as PI of YouthMappers.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3330013044
ISBN 13 
9783330013049
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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