An Ecology of Knowledges

Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation

Micha Rahder (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478006107 (ISBN)

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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.

Micha Rahder is an independent scholar in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction. What on Earth Is a Nooscape? 1
Learning How to See 10
1. The Many Worlds of the Maya Biosphere Reserve 13
Silences of Memory 32
I. Double Visions: Technoscience and Paranoia
2. Eye of the Storm 37
Corrupted Data 57
3. Mapping Gobernabilidad 59
Gender and Violence 92
4. But Is It a Basin? 94
Peteneros and Other Endemic Species 116
II. Patchiness and Fragmentation
5. A Reserve Full of Rooftops 121
Parks, Poverty, People 152
6. Fire at the Edge of the Forest 155
Death of a Dog 185
III. Composing and Composting Knowledges
7. A Known Place 189
Certainty Emerges 216
Apocalypse Soon! 245
9. Nine / Redd+Queen Futures 247
Modest Interventions 265
Afterword 268
Notes 273
References 287
Index 303

Erscheinungsdatum	28.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Experimental Futures
Zusatzinfo	28 illustrations, incl. 8 in color
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478006107 / 9781478006107
Zustand	Neuware