Laurie Kroshus Medina

Governing Maya Communities and Lands in Belize

Indigenous Rights, Markets, and Sovereignties

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Belize, conservation NGOs push for wildlife sanctuaries to protect endangered ecosystems. State actors authorize timber extraction to generate revenue for debt repayment. Maya communities, dispossessed by state and NGO strategies, pursue claims for Indigenous rights to lands. This book explores the conflicting forms of governance that emerge as these trajectories intersect.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781978837744
• ISBN-10: 1978837747
• Artikelnr.: 68854343

Autorenporträt

LAURIE KROSHUS MEDINA is director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and associate professor of anthropology at Michigan State University in East Lansing. She is the author of Negotiating Economic Development: Identity Formation and Collective Action in Belize.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Acronyms
1          Competing Rationalities of Rule: Sovereignty, Markets, and
Indigenous Rights
2          Histories of Belize: Sovereignties Claimed, Sovereignties
Performed
3          NGO Government of the State: Conducting the Conduct of State
Officials
4          Governing through the Market: Managing Tropical Nature and Maya
Communities
5          Contested Histories and Histories of Contestation in Southern
Belize
6          The Production of Indigenous Rights: Indigenous Advocacy in the
United Nations and the Inter-American Human Rights System
7          Advancing the Maya Claim Through the Belizean Judicial System
8          Negotiating the Interface of Maya Customary Tenure and Belizean
Law
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary of non-English Terms
References
Index