BookLand grab: green neoliberalism, gender, and Garifuna resistance in Honduras
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Title
- Land grab: green neoliberalism, gender, and Garifuna resistance in Honduras.
Published
- Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013.
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- Describes and assesses the gradual processes of land dispossession by poor Hondurans, especially Garifuna, in the face of "protected area" conservation, tourism development, and corrupt officials seeking profits, and how this intensified after the violent coop of 2009 - including the dismissal of the nation's lead government anthropologist - that served to roll back multiculturalism, Garifuna cultural rights, and most centrally to the book, land rights. The author attends the positionality of women (whose access to land is even more limited and who are more vulnerable to loss of land), as well as her own, and explores the struggle between rights based in long-term indigenous occupation and those based in new, often racially motivated legislation that seeks to turn native lands into tourist landscapes.
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Description
- 233 p.: bibl., ill., index, map.
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-226) and index.
ISBN
- 9780816530212 (cloth : alk. paper)
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- Duncan Earle