Description
| Product ID: | 9781478006916 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Experimental Futures |
| Title: | An Ecology of Knowledges |
| Subtitle: | Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation |
| Authors: | Author: Micha Rahder |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, Social and cultural anthropology, Conservation of the environment, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Conservation of the environment, Guatemala |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Micha Rahder explores how multiple ways of knowing the forest of Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve shape conservation practice, local livelihoods, and landscapes. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-05-21 |
