Dallas Public Library

Green wars, conservation and decolonization in the Maya Forest, Megan Ybarra

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Green wars

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Megan Ybarra

conservation and decolonization in the Maya Forest

"Green Wars challenges international conservation efforts, revealing through in-depth case studies how "saving" the Maya Forest facilitates racialized dispossession. Megan Ybarra brings Guatemala's 36-year civil war into the perspective of a longer history of 200 years of settler colonialism to show how conservation works to make Q'eqchi's into immigrants on their own territory. Even as the post-war state calls on them to claim rights as individual citizens, Q'eqchi's seek survival as a people. Her analysis reveals that Q'eqchi's both appeal to the nation-state and engage in relationships of mutual recognition with other Indigenous peoples -- and the land itself -- in their calls for a material decolonization."--Provided by publisher

Introduction : Conservation and settler logics of elimination -- Making the Maya Forest -- We didn't invade the park, the park invaded us -- Rethinking Ladinos as settlers -- Taxing the Kaxlan : Q'eqchi' self-determination within and beyond the settler State -- Narco narratives and twenty-first century green wars -- Conclusion : decolonizing the Maya Forest, and beyond