Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the Q'eqchi' Maya Lowlanders - Brossura

Grandia, Liza

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0295991666 ISBN 13: 9780295991665

Casa editrice: Univ of Washington Pr, 2012

Riassunto

This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement from their lands. Liza Grandia uses the tools of ethnography, history, cartography, and ecology to explore the recurring enclosures of Guatemala's second largest indigenous group, who number a million strong. Having lost most of their highland territory to foreign coffee planters at the end of the 19th century, Q'eqchi' people began migrating into the lowland forests of northern Guatemala and southern Belize. Then, pushed deeper into the frontier by cattle ranchers, lowland Q'eqchi' found themselves in conflict with biodiversity conservationists who established protected areas across this region during the 1990s.

The lowland, maize-growing Q'eqchi' of the 21st century face even more problems as they are swept into global markets through the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and the Puebla to Panama Plan (PPP). The waves of dispossession imposed upon them, driven by encroaching coffee plantations, cattle ranches, and protected areas, have unsettled these agrarian people. Enclosed describes how they have faced and survived their challenges and, in doing so, helps to explain what is happening in other contemporary enclosures of public "common" space.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Liza Grandia is assistant professor of Native American studies at UC Davis.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Washington Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0295991666
• ISBN 13: 9780295991665
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 278
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile