Micha Rahder

An Ecology of Knowledges

Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation

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Produktbeschreibung

Micha Rahder explores how multiple ways of knowing the forest of Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve shape conservation practice, local livelihoods, and landscapes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781478006107
• ISBN-10: 1478006102
• Artikelnr.: 56976674

Autorenporträt

Micha Rahder

Inhaltsangabe

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