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Umfang: 1 online resource (340 p.)

ISBN: 9781478007524

Serie: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Abbreviations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction / What on Earth Is a Nooscape? -- , Learning How to See -- , One. The Many Worlds of the Maya Biosphere Reserve -- , Silences of Memory -- , Two / Eye of the Storm -- , Corrupted Data -- , Three Mapping Gobernabilidad -- , Gender and Violence -- , Four. But Is It a Basin? -- , Peteneros and Other Endemic Species -- , Five / A Reserve Full of Rooftops -- , Parks, Poverty, People -- , Six / Fire at the Edge of the Forest -- , Death of a Dog -- , Seven / A Known Place -- , Certainty Emerges -- , Eight / Wild Life -- , Apocalypse Soon! -- , Nine / REDD+ Queen Futures -- , Modest Interventions -- , Afterword -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Ethnologie

Schlagwort(e): Electronic books

DOI: 10.1515/9781478007524

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007524

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478007524

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007524

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478007524

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478007524?locatt=mode:legacy

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Umfang: xvi, 316 Seiten : , Illustrationen, Karten.

ISBN: 978-1-4780-0610-7 , 978-1-4780-0691-6

Serie: Experimental futures: technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4780-0752-4

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Geographie , Ethnologie , Soziologie

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Umfang: 1 online resource (1 online resource)

ISBN: 1-4780-0752-4

Serie: Experimental futures: Technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Inhalt: "AN ECOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGES-based on Micha Rahder's ethnographic field work in the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), a jungle in northern Guatemala that has been a site for oil extraction, tourism, violence, and war-looks at how NGOs attempt to do conservation work in this contested and precarious landscape. Rahder develops the concept of the "nooscape"--patterns of collective thought and action that emerge from and fold back into material-ecological worlds--to explore the dynamic relationship between environmental knowledge and conservationist intervention. Rahder argues that specific kinds of knowledge emerge from situated encounters and relations, and in turn are folded back into the material reality of the landscape, shaping the actions and interventions that take place in the MBR. Her exploration of the incommensurable yet co-entangled ways of knowing, acting, and living in the MBR opens up a reflection on the conflicting harms and benefits of conservation work and enables us to imagine more just and equitable directions for environmental movements. The book is divided into three sections, each emphasizing a different aspect of the nooscape. The first explores the symbiotic relation between the use of technoscience, in the form of tools such as satellite imagery and GIS mapping, and the experience of paranoia, wrought by daily violence and regular death threats. Rahder looks at how the material realities of various groups of people in the MBR-conservationists, migrants, indigenous Guatemalans-produce different forms of conservationist knowledge and different understandings of the state that are often at odds with one another and give rise to controversy. The second section examines how the uneven distribution of ways of knowing and acting in the MBR shape encounters that have unequal impacts on individual people and places. Rahder shows how the nooscape of the MBR is fragmented by human forces of structural violence, ethnic inequality, and changes in land use. The last section explores how knowing a place in order to change it is itself a form of change, and how forms of knowledge in the MBR translate into interventions that can have unexpected and unintended effects. Here Rahder looks at shifts in identity and livelihood in one reserve village, experimental interventions in wild animal populations, and how imagined futures of the reserve shape its present. An afterword considers what a knowledge ecology approach might offer in our present era of environmental upheaval. AN ECOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGES will be of interest to scholars and students in anthropology, Latin American studies, and environmental studies"--

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Abbreviations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction / What on Earth Is a Nooscape? -- , Learning How to See -- , One. The Many Worlds of the Maya Biosphere Reserve -- , Silences of Memory -- , Two / Eye of the Storm -- , Corrupted Data -- , Three Mapping Gobernabilidad -- , Gender and Violence -- , Four. But Is It a Basin? -- , Peteneros and Other Endemic Species -- , Five / A Reserve Full of Rooftops -- , Parks, Poverty, People -- , Six / Fire at the Edge of the Forest -- , Death of a Dog -- , Seven / A Known Place -- , Certainty Emerges -- , Eight / Wild Life -- , Apocalypse Soon! -- , Nine / REDD+ Queen Futures -- , Modest Interventions -- , Afterword -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index , Issued also in print.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1-4780-0691-9

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1-4780-0610-2

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781478007524