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Green wars : conservation and decolonization in the Maya forest

Ybarra, Megan, author

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\"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.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Kekchi Indians Land tenure Maya Forest. / Kekchi Indians Legal status, laws, etc. Maya Forest. / Decolonization Maya Forest. / Natural resources Maya Forest Management. / Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North) Government relations History. / Maya Forest Conservation.
• ISBN: 9780520295162, 9780520295186

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F1465.2.K5 Y33 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE